thoughts about Extended Circles

[elke_tanzer]

Just another cautionary random thought about G+... being able to post to Extended Circles means that we should think twice about using that functionality, if we or someone we've encircled are following some of the "celebs" and/or "collectors" of G+ who have lots of folks following them and/or follow lots of people, right? ... There's a direction-vector somewhere in there that I'm not entirely clear on (my brain is kinda melty today), but... use 'Share With Extended Circles' with caution.

On LJ, I think the closest equivalent to Extended Circles would be FriendsFriends, but I'm not sure how close the DW equivalent is.

Fannish hivemind, can you help me out with this one?

(cross-posted to my G+ at https://plus.google.com/u/1/107619776564880847214/posts/8EXkCdvEHAM )

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[indeliblesasha]

Network would be the DW corollary, I believe.

As a FB equivalent, I believe "friends of friends" as a security setting is probably the same. My friends' friends. It doesn't seem like a "new" privacy setting, just a new name, to me at any rate.

So, for instance, on FB I have some of my profile info set to Friends of Friends, so that if Joe FirstBoyfriend sees me post on someone's status, and he's all "omg is that the girl I LUFFED in FIRST GRADE?" he can click to my profile and see that, yes, in fact it probably is. And we can reconnect and snicker over our endless (6 year old) love. ;) (Not that that has EVER HAPPENED or anything. :D )

That is my understanding of how Extended Circles works here as well - not the whole internet can see it, but people who are 1 degree from you can.