Re: FALSE sense of security

Posted by Dr. Bob on June 15, 2010, at 2:49:53

In reply to Re: Publish or Perish, posted by muffled on June 14, 2010, at 13:38:28

> People need to know most sites are open and that you are vulnerable on the 'net.
> Not just here, but everywhere.
> This place can lull you into a FALSE sense of security, because its a 'mental health site', and its maintained by a p-doc.
> But in fact it 'EXTRA' acessable here(more so than some other sites), and so EXTRA NOT private because there is so much interconnection thru google and tweets etc.
> Everything here is VERY public and forever.
> Be careful what you say.
In fact, that's a potential advantage of the new buttons, and a potential disadvantage of hiding them:
> posts here have always been public and available for sharing, including on Facebook and Twitter when they came along. A dialectic of this community is that it is public, yet can feel private. Maybe another way the new buttons can help is as reminders of the public aspect.
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Bob
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