Livejournal curmudgeon.

[lollardfish]

Please take me off any commercial filters (in terms of you trying to sell me stuff).

Please also take me off any twitter filters.

Thanks!

Comments

[guppiecat]

(And we hijack the thread for our own nefarious purposes.)

It seems to me that the vast majority of people who use LJ enough to have filters also have their interests defined. This indicates, to me, a general comfort level with the information disclosure inherent with sharing the existence of the filters.

I can, however, see a problem where user A defines filters for users B and C. Along comes user D, which is a friend but not one as close as B and C. However, D doesn't know that A considers D to be a lesser quality of friend, and therefore applies to the filter. In this instance, D would know that A did not approve the filter view request... which could cause discomfort. However, it is unlikely that D would know that B and C were approved, so I don't think it would be socially damaging.

However, I suspect that the code for such filtering would be cleaner than the current model and considerably more flexible. This should result in a more enjoyable LJ experience for everyone, so I'd personally be willing the accept the possibility for social-stress-via-exclusion, if it allowed me to more fully customize the information to which I am subjected.

I am well aware that I may be in the minority (I often am).

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Hijack away!

[neugotik.livejournal.com]

right - there are potential for social awkwardness.
on myspace there's like a 'block user' from seeing your page - which blocks specific people, but I don't know that people use that - they might? I see much more often "friends only" filters, plus then people either defriend you &/or friends lock their entire page creating like you said "layers for friends" but with LJ one can use the filters for topics - which makes sense as a blogging system w/a friends page that reads like a newspaper - is the newspaper segmented by "sports" "entertainment" "news" etc? nope - users can create their own groups but that puts the effort on the writer : plus, it means it has to be a locked post,right? I don't know of any way to filter public posts? (like my family reads my public posts for info/pics - if I filtered them, my interested family couldn't see because they lack LJ accounts- right?)

[neugotik.livejournal.com]

Oh- and I've known people who just create whole new LJ accounts so they can segment writing types - but still have public searchable posts.