Well, I'll be the "disagreeable" one here. I wrote about this a few weeks ago in my own journal.
I hate that LJ calls it a "friends" list. I know three of the people in mine in real life. . . the rest could walk up and smack me and I wouldn't know who the hell they were.
I'm reading journals that I like when I "friend" them. . . not getting the keys to the front door or a peek at anyone's checkbook register. I can't see locked posts unless the journal owner adds me.
So no permission is needed from anyone and likewise, none is required if I "unfriend" the journal. Seing people post asinine "rules" about who, how, what and why someone can "friend" their journal make me laugh and close the browser.
If people do not want their journals added to other people's reading lists, then they can handle that by locking all their entries. Otherwise public entries are just that - public.
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Date: 2009-01-26 12:13 am (UTC)I hate that LJ calls it a "friends" list. I know three of the people in mine in real life. . . the rest could walk up and smack me and I wouldn't know who the hell they were.
I'm reading journals that I like when I "friend" them. . . not getting the keys to the front door or a peek at anyone's checkbook register. I can't see locked posts unless the journal owner adds me.
So no permission is needed from anyone and likewise, none is required if I "unfriend" the journal. Seing people post asinine "rules" about who, how, what and why someone can "friend" their journal make me laugh and close the browser.
If people do not want their journals added to other people's reading lists, then they can handle that by locking all their entries. Otherwise public entries are just that - public.
It's the internet, not cotillion.