Suggested: Filters

[woodwardiocom]

-In reference to my last post: I'm not sure a filter would have much utility for me. The purpose would seem to be to let me have LJ-friends, who I don't read regularly, but who can read my friends-locked or filter-locked posts. I almost never lock a post, and I don't need the temptation of "Oh, let's see if there are any posts over on my full friends page".

-Unless I missed something, the only remaining reason to do so would be so as not to offend people by de-friending or not-friending them. I personally think that whether you're someone's LJ friend isn't worth getting worked up over, so those people are going to have to be content with a reasonably sincere apology.

(If someone thinks I'm being a jackass here, I'm open to criticism.)

Comments

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

First, I'm with you on the whole friend/unfriend LJ thing; it's a stupid thing to get one's panties in a twist over. And I tend to think, if my 'friend' is so petty or shallow that they'll stop being my real life friend just because I don't want to read their LJ, then we have bigger problems, and I'm not sure I want people that petty shallow in my real world life at all.

All that said, though, I still sue filters extensively now (even after a year or two of railing against them). I have a filter for the people's whose journals I absolutely must check up on once per day (loves, SOs, family members, recent crushes...that sort of thing); I only use this filter for what I choose to read and never for what I'm posting. I also have three broad filters: Boston, Filk, and Communities. These are the tier I get to next, when I want to know what is going on in the lives of my friends, for broad definitions of the word friend, or when I want to read random communities like Polyamory. These are also the filters I use when making Filk-specific post (like about OVFF) or Boston-specific posts (like 'I'm bored on Monday come entertain me' posts). Then there is the filter I use when I've just had my heart stomped on and I'm in tears. I only ever post to this filter; I never read that filter. I think it contains all of 4 people - the four people I would call at 4 in the morning and ask them to come bail me out of jail for soliciting a prostitute or something equally disgraceful, the four people on LJ who know me best in all the world. If you set your filters up wisely, they can be imminently useful.

All of that is aside from your Default Friends View, which essentially lets you set up your friends page such that you only see on it those journals that you personally wish to read, and nothing else. It doesn't change any of who has acess to anything you post. It only changes what journals you see on your friends page when you look at it. IMO, based on what you've said here, that's really what you are looking for. A way to limit what -you- read; not a way to limit what other people read of what you've written.

And no, you're not being a jackass. Above all things, it's your journal. DO whatever you want to with it. *hugs* -H...