Moving in Time

[amanita_d]

I'm trying to do a bit of reorganising, so my apologies if random entries appear, disappear, move around, etc. I don't seem to have the hang of backdating posts so that they appear in the right order; although it seems to be obvious how to do it it doesn't always work

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[chaoticset]

Hyper? Paranoid?

Oooh, I so want to know...!

I know, privacy, sanity, the fine lines between acquaintances, friends, and confidantes...

[amanita_d]

You know, what I really need is to be forced, on a post-by-post basis, to select each person individually that should be allowed read it. And then to do this retroactively every time I add a new person to my friends list. Of course, if they actually made me do that, I wouldn't use LJ any more :)

The tricky part is figuring out not just who can read things now, but what future possible people might want/should be allowed to read.

[chaoticset]

I basically have sorted my flist into three groups of people (although I have several filters that I really don't use any more).

• Non-mutual (people who friend me, but I don't friend back, usually people I've never heard of at all before)
  
• Friends (people who friend me and I friend back, usually folks I know from somewhere else or I have asked nicely to friend me)
  
• Sex (anybody who's asked to be on my sexual filter who falls into the Friends category)
  

It's fairly rare that anybody moves from one of those categories to the other, although there's plenty of folks in Friends who were unknown to me until I saw them post somewhere, or comment in reply to something.

[amanita_d]

That is nice and simple. I have very few of the first kind, because I tend to question them until I decide they're ok or until they go away. Then I have People I Know in Real Life, People I Met On LJ, College Friends, Everyone Except my B/F, Everyone Except my Housemate.. etc. And they all overlap and interact and some of them do move from group to group. Not to mention ADD/Asperger filters for now and also for future people I might add without being 'out' to.

God, I'm making this much too difficult for myself, amn't I?