I tried to be all slick and have a subset group of friends who saw specific posts, but then I was looking through another persons friends list (who shouldn’t have seen the post) and… voila! There it was! Ack. Rapid delete. I guess that I’m not computer saavy enough to be selectively making posts.
Are you in the group of people who were allowed to see the post? If so, then it would show up anywhere that you *could* see it. So your friend has you as a friend, there is a locked post in your journal, but you have privileges to see that post, so it shows up in their friends page as one of your posts, but they likely couldn’t see it.
Make sense?
I am so confused. I think I should probably just stick with not making posts I don’t want everyone to see.
Although it occurs to me that I won’t be able to give graphic details then. Bummer.
Lets say I made a post that you could see but Rachel couldn’t.
If you check your own friend list, you will see the post. If you check my friend list you will see the post (’cause I’m my own friend *grins*). If you check Rachel’s friend list you will see the post.
However, Rachel will never see the post. It doesn’t matter if she’s looking at my page, or your page, or her page, the post will not exist for her.
It doesn’t matter whose page you’re looking at. The only things that matters are the permissions for the username you are logged in as. I share a computer so I don’t leave myself logged in. I’ll occasionally get email notices that someone has responded to a comment I left in a protected entry and click the “reply to this comment” link only to be told that I don’t have permission to view the page. I’ll log in, try again, and it works.
It’s also worth mentioning that if you look at my friend page, you won’t see what I see. I have a “default view” for the blogs I check the most. I have another list for things that I won’t want to comment on or read other people’s comments like RSS feeds and comic strips.
There’s a third catagory of people who predominantly use their blogs for political commentary or memes and but rarely write something I want to read.
So my panic of “Oh shit, I didn’t want this person to read this!” was over the top? Good to know. It’s already deleted anyway. Not a big deal.
Let me see if I can explain better. You made a post that, for example, only people you have listed as friends can see. So anyone else couldn’t see.
If you are logged into LJ no matter whose friends list you look at, you’re going to be able to see with YOUR permissions.
If you, for example, log out and then go to their friends page again, you should no longer be able to see the protected entries.
Oh, that’s no fun at all! More graphic details!
What the other person who replied to this said. If you want to play around later with it, I could easily be convinced.