Yeah, it just seems like there aren't as many options as there should be to support all types of social (or anti-social) internet structure. I think the bit I'm least crazy about is the 'see who this person follows online' type stuff (cf.Twitter) where you have no control over random, non-logged in people checking out your interests and connections; I feel it should be possible to set the access level for this yourself depending on how transparent you want to be. I'm okay with the friends page here on LJ, because I've pretty much decided this will be my fannish, geeky space which won't link up with my RL stuff; but I still think I should have the ultimate control over who sees that.
That said, it definitely gets easier as you stick your neck further out ;) I started off determined to friend-lock every post here, but now that I've dipped my proverbial toes in the water I really don't know what I was so uptight about.
And p.s. thank you for commenting :) I'm at such an early stage with LJ and I have almost no network to speak of outside of RicStar, with no clue how to extend it, so it's great to get even a wee bit of feedback! I guess it's going to be a slow-growing, organic thing that'll take a few years.
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Yeah, it just seems like there aren't as many options as there should be to support all types of social (or anti-social) internet structure. I think the bit I'm least crazy about is the 'see who this person follows online' type stuff (cf.Twitter) where you have no control over random, non-logged in people checking out your interests and connections; I feel it should be possible to set the access level for this yourself depending on how transparent you want to be. I'm okay with the friends page here on LJ, because I've pretty much decided this will be my fannish, geeky space which won't link up with my RL stuff; but I still think I should have the ultimate control over who sees that.
That said, it definitely gets easier as you stick your neck further out ;) I started off determined to friend-lock every post here, but now that I've dipped my proverbial toes in the water I really don't know what I was so uptight about.
And p.s. thank you for commenting :) I'm at such an early stage with LJ and I have almost no network to speak of outside of RicStar, with no clue how to extend it, so it's great to get even a wee bit of feedback! I guess it's going to be a slow-growing, organic thing that'll take a few years.