Mentality of a Troll

[Eilonnwy]

Well technically it should have been protected, it was a friends only post. It's just the same as if I told something in person to a group of friends and one of those friends started sharing it with everyone, it just happened via internet.

Yeah, but internet has redefined the term 'friend' as to mean far less than friend in my dictionary. My daughter (almost 15 now) is keen on adding as much 'friends' to her Hyves page, just to make sure the number of friends is above the social acceptable minimum. That minimum is about 200 friends in her natural teen habitat! Her counter reads 396 now, so she is in the comfort zone, but don't make me believe that a friend on internet is like a friend in the real world. Regular face to face contact is much more compelling.

Yes, I agree. I accept any "friend" request on facebook and do not post personal information there.

However, in my LJ I only accept people I actually consider friends. Out of my 78 mutual friends I have met and hung out with most of them, (I travel and go to cons a lot) with a few exceptions for online friends who I have interacted with at length beforehand. Plus, I can create categories of friends and lock posts to specifically those people

I believe the person who leaked my locked post was someone I know and more than passingly, but unfortunately I have no proof, but I do keep that person more at arms length.

Granted, I understand your point, when you put stuff out there it can come back to you in unpleasant ways which is especially true for the internet. I wasn't as careful as I should have been about my post, luckily it wasn't anything terribly private just a little personal. I am far more selective of what I post now, and to whom can read them.