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Lesson: Public is Public
<box 35em round green> “Public means Public: visible to God, Google, and everybody.” </box|- Me, to dozens of product managers for many, many years.>
Background
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
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“…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>
Context Error: Personal vs. Global
Action Taken
Results
<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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