I see people taking their journals private to avoid being indexed by Google. Not me. I want to be part of the emergent hive mind. I want to skew Google's aggregate opinion, even if just a little bit. This is what the web is all about.
I see people taking their journals prive to avoid being indexed by Google when Google was already indexing them - as normal web pages, unless, of course, you set the "don't index my journal" option on the info page.
There are reasons to take your journal private. This isn't one of them.
(I like and use friendsfriends. Private journals make that useless.)
Yeah, I pretty much figured from the get-go that if I post something on the web, I'm saying I want it to be read, indexed, etc. I'm vain enough to want anything I post public to be searchable. I will post things and mark them private/friends if I'd rather they not be casually available (say, for instance, without a subpoena, or other serious intent) but nothing that's truly private of mine lives on a piece of hardware that's not in my physical possession. That's why I could never get behind gmail.
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Date: 2005-09-20 07:25 pm (UTC)There are reasons to take your journal private. This isn't one of them.
(I like and use friendsfriends. Private journals make that useless.)
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