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@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ If you click on a photo of a person who is in the circle, they will be removed f
Once you have created a circle, you may use it in any access control list.
This is the little lock icon beneath the status update box on your home page.
If you click this you can select who can see and who can *not* see the post you are about to make..
If you click this, you can select who can see and who can *not* see the post you are about to make...
These can be individual people or circles.
On your "Network" page you will find posts and conversation from everybody in your network.
On your "Network" page, you will find posts and conversations from everybody in your network.
You may select an individual circle on this page to show conversations pertaining only to members of that circle.
But wait, there's more...
@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ This is meant to draw attention to that lock.
Click the lock.
You will see that since you are only viewing a certain circle of people, your status updates while on that screen default to only being seen by that same circle of people.
This is how you keep your future employers from seeing what you write to your drinking buddies.
You can over-ride this setting, but this makes it easy to separate your conversations into different friend circles.
You can override this setting, but this makes it easy to separate your conversations into different friend circles.
**Default Post Privacy**
@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ By default, Friendica assumes that you want all of your posts to be private.
Therefore, when you sign up, Friendica creates a circle for you that it will automatically add all of your contacts to.
All of your posts are restricted to that circle by default.
Note that this behaviour can be overridden by your site admin, in which case your posts will be "public" (i.e. visible to the entire Internet) by default.
Note that this behaviour can be overridden by your site admin, in which case your posts will be "public" (i.e., visible to the entire Internet) by default.
If you want your posts to be "public" by default, you can change your default post permissions on your Settings page.
You also have the option there to change which circles you post to by default, or to change which circle your new contacts get placed into by default.
You also have the option to change which circles you post to by default or which circle your new contacts get placed into by default.
**Privacy Concerns To Be Aware Of**
@ -60,19 +60,17 @@ This is a trust issue you need to be aware of.
No software in the world can prevent your friends from leaking your confidential and trusted communications.
Only a wise choice of friends.
But it isn't as clear cut when dealing with GNU Social and other network providers.
But it isn't as clear-cut when dealing with GNU Social and other network providers.
If you look at the Contact Edit page for any person, we will tell you whether or not they are members of an insecure network where you should exercise caution.
Once you have created a post, you can not change the permissions assigned.
Within seconds it has been delivered to lots of people - and perhaps everybody it was addressed to.
If you mistakenly created a message and wish you could take it back, the best you can do is to delete it.
We will send out a delete notification to everybody who received the message - and this should wipe out the message with the same speed it was initially propagated.
In most cases it will be completely wiped from the Internet - in under a minute.
If you mistakenly created a message and wish to take it back, the best you can do is delete it.
We will send out a delete notification to everybody who received the message - and this should wipe out the message with the same speed as it was initially propagated.
In most cases, it will be completely wiped from the Internet - in under a minute.
Again, this applies to Friendica networks.
Once a message spreads to other networks, it may not be removed quickly and in some cases it may not be removed at all.
Once a message spreads to other networks, it may not be removed quickly, and in some cases, it may not be removed at all.
In case you haven't yet figured this out, we are encouraging you to encourage your friends to use Friendica - because all these privacy features work much better within a privacy-aware network.
Many of the other social networks Friendica can connect to have no privacy controls.
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