In truth I think a service like this is more about not having your family and colleagues being able to easily snoop in on your private life, not about giving you iron clad privacy. Or any level of social separation that you want which Facebook doesn't allow easily. Within that assumption, the fact that for example, photos of you can be posted outside that circle of trust, is just a necessary risk if you want to stay connected with your friends when most probably use social networking like facebook/etc.
Your family is part of your private life more or less by definition
Your family is part of one of your private lives. Having others can be healthy. Depending on your relationship with your family, very healthy.
And, yes, you still have to make sure that your stuff posted online passes the New York Times test: If it turns up as front page news you have to be able to survive. That said: The advantage of a social network with loudly stated privacy norms is that (a) people will be told not to share outside the list, (b) you can control which friends are on the list and hopefully keep the untrustworthy ones out; (c) when people cut-and-paste anyway, despite your precautions, they can be properly ostracized, which (one might hope) will teach them some manners.
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In truth I think a service like this is more about not having your family and colleagues being able to easily snoop in on your private life, not about giving you iron clad privacy. Or any level of social separation that you want which Facebook doesn't allow easily. Within that assumption, the fact that for example, photos of you can be posted outside that circle of trust, is just a necessary risk if you want to stay connected with your friends when most probably use social networking like facebook/etc.
Your family is part of your private life more or less by definition, and stuff once posted to any website tends to get reposted elsewhere.
If you don't want it made public, don't put it on the web is pretty good strategy.
edit: I have no idea what happened there but this comment appeared a whole bunch of times!
Your family is part of your private life more or less by definition
Your family is part of one of your private lives. Having others can be healthy. Depending on your relationship with your family, very healthy.
And, yes, you still have to make sure that your stuff posted online passes the New York Times test: If it turns up as front page news you have to be able to survive. That said: The advantage of a social network with loudly stated privacy norms is that (a) people will be told not to share outside the list, (b) you can control which friends are on the list and hopefully keep the untrustworthy ones out; (c) when people cut-and-paste anyway, despite your precautions, they can be properly ostracized, which (one might hope) will teach them some manners.
I only have the one :)
That's complicated enough for me...
>Your family is part of your private life more or less by definition, and stuff once posted to any website tends to get reposted elsewhere.
Actually no - there are things I don't mind the entire world knowing, but I would mind if my family found out.
If the entire world knows it is pretty much guaranteed that your family will find out. I would re-think that strategy!