And what was she wearing and what did he say

[venta]

For a number of years now - despite all my posts being public - you lot have been assiduously not crossposting them to Twitter, Facebook and similar sites.

I assume that this is because you don't want to and/or you think it's inappropriate, not that you've been confounded until now by the lack of an appropriate tickybox.

Comments

[ylla.livejournal.com]

The 'intended audience' of a public post is a hazy thing - although there is an undeniable difference between 'the set of people who read livejournal' and 'the set of people who use facebook'.

I think if I had something so secret to say that even knowing I'd made a post at all would be dangerous (and I think 'last updated' would still give me away, and the calendar view used to), I might not say it!

I wonder if this is part of the difference between me and the people getting upset. I don't really assume that even locked posts are absolutely private - people forget where they heard something, or get careless, or malicious, or talk too much in the pub, and again that seems more a danger of life than of technology.