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?)
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Date: 2008-03-31 08:43 pm (UTC)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?)