Context Is King

<box 35em round green> “Public means Public.

This means visible to God, Google, and everybody.” </box|- The author, to dozens of product managers for many, many years.>

<box red| TBD>Searching the internet archive, this apocryphal story appears to be at least partially untrue. As far back as June 2000, deleted Journals have been recoverable at user request for up to 30 days.

Either confirm directly with Brad, or reduce claims, or drop completely.

Consider talking about block in social networks instead.</box>

Social media is tricky. Users ask for conflicting and logically inconsistent features for online interaction. This is usually the result of intersecting contexts. How LiveJournal got an Un-delete Journal button is a particularity telling example.

Companies want SEO - so search engines are your friend. Bloggers (journalers) want readers, the more the better Except the people they are saying non-pleasant things about. When those people ego-surf google, then read the posts and either leave wounded-comments, emails, or worse RL contact… DELETE! After friends help the user learn about FLOCKing, they return UNDELETE! Lots of overhead @ LiveJournal Button

<box 25% right green> “…Once you delete your journal you have 30 days to undelete it, in case you change your mind.

After 30 days, the journal will be permanently deleted and there will be no way to recover it.” </box|- LiveJournal.com, Account Status Page, June 2008>

<box red| TBD>Presently anecdotal conclusion. Either replace this or confirm the details of this story with Matt Berardo @ LiveJournal.</box>

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