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Comment by micampe | Hacker News Reader

Will user A see my post? http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RIL_CvjOmVY/ThQKTNckBYI/AA...

This has been one of the interesting aspects of it. You can direct message someone by sharing it only with them.

Also if you send something to one circle and then add someone to that circle later, they get to see everything sent to that circle.

It would be nice if you could add a blocklist for a given post (so you don't have to remove people from circles or create temp-circles).

e.g: You and your friends are throwing a surprise party for one circle-member's birthday.

Hmm, unless the planning literally involved a cast of hundreds, I'd just create a temporary circle.

The bottom right of that flowchart is a little scary. So anything you post, no matter how private you want it to be, can be seen by anyone that it gets re-shared to?

Nevermind: just noticed that that only applies to posts you share publically.

Yes, any user that can see your post can reshare it to people you did not originally share it to by clicking the share button.

They could also just tell person A or repost it if there wasn't a share button, though. Just use good sense.

wrong.. if you mark it as a limited share...no one outside that circle can share it..try it yourself and see...it is a new change that went into effect over the weekend

That's a good change, but that's not my point. My point is that things don't automatically become unprivate because there's a share button. Somebody has to make the decision to share these things, and they still have the ability to do so without a convenient button. The point is that users should still maintain good sense about what they post.

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