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[ivyblossom]

Big long rambling post on the way, but in lieu of that, some words from starkeymonster you will want to read if you ever friends-lock your posts. The topic? A new online service called frienditto.

Let's say I'm on your friends list and for whatever reason I decide to archive a post you have friends-locked. I can go to Frienditto, give them my LJ username and password, and the URL of your flocked post. Frienditto then signs in to LJ with my username and password, retrieves the friends-locked post, and publicly posts it on the Frienditto archive. And you would never know who did the archiving.

Does this spell the end of all those sooper sekrit ljs? The plot thickens!

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[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

True. Though I've never been a big fan of locked posts, to be honest. I've only made a handful of them, but I know there are people with entirely locked journals. I guess what I think is interesting about this is that it's one more thing reinforcing the idea that what you put online you are publishing, so if you just feel like bitching about someone without having them see it, probably best to write it down in a journal somewhere or call up a friend.

I"m sure the fallout will be interesting.

[ladylynx.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, it is. One of my "friends" put me on a filter, where she told people she was filtering her posts because of this, then three minutes later took me off that filter. Makes me feel all sorts of special. I feel like I'm not trusted, although I am tech savvy and there are so many tools out there that I'm aware of that I could have used ages ago if I wanted to.

Defriendings everywhere.

Actually, maybe this is good. A moment of truth.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

!! That's crazy! I guess this is one of those moments where you find out who your friends are.

[ladylynx.livejournal.com]

She did it at 4 in the morning, so I guess she thought I was asleep and never had intended to let me know she was filtering me out from now on anyway.

I know that I don't know most of my flist in real life, but I do take my chances with them and try to get to know them, so it's a surprise to me when these things happen, although I really shouldn't be.