On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Erica Frank <[email protected]> wrote:

>  But without a secondary "locked to logged-in users only," it fails to
> provide what it's most helpful for--a way for some posts to be totally
> public, and others limited to people who've shown some affinity, however
> vague, for the poster or her social community.


I worry about this, as you run into the Facebook problem: All of these
entries that were moderately protected when DW was a smaller, closed system,
become increasingly public as the userbase expands.

What was three years ago a place that you could easily post party pictures,
and assorted college hijinks is now essentially public- my dog now has a
facebook, my parents now have facebooks etc. Not to mention my boss, my
coworkers, and even worse- my employees.

There is nothing inherently wrong with having a 'logged into to DW users
only' layer, but I suspect that a lot of people will learn via hard cold
experience that it is not actually any security at all.

Nora Bombay

PS: The only saving grace of facebook is my age- when I was in high school
and college nobody had digital cameras- so the average pictures had to be of
things that you were willing to let the guys at the development place see.
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