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Perhaps me and rjk shouldn't read LJ in the same room as each other, guven some people trust one of us and not the other. I try hard not to read things over his shoulder, but just glancing across at his screen at the wrong moment and I can see his friends page is showing a post from a friend of ours which mine isn't, from the big friendly icon of their face at the top of the screen. I wouldn't dream of trying to read it, but I guess it hurts a bit that they don't trust me. Or to be more honest it hurts to have it rubbed in. If I didn't know it was there I wouldn't care.

The whole thing with the padlock on items with some level of security but not saying *what* level really bugs me too. If I hadn't realised that the same article wasn't showing on mine, perhaps if I'd just wandered into the room, it would have been perfectly simple for me to assume it was only "normal" friends-only and not a restricted set of friends and read it without thinking about it much.

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Well, it was a post of yours I saw out of the corner of my eye today and tried to ignore, but don't worry about it. I should just get used to the fact that you're more comfortable talking to Richard about stuff than you are to me, but it's kind of weird realising that sort of thing. I guess it's just a difference in the way we use LJ: I probably don't ever say anything here that I wouldn't say to everyone. And if there is something I'd only say to a couple of people who are close to me then I'd pick somewhere other than LJ to say it IYSWIM.

But it was intending to be a more general wibble than me being really annoyed or anything, and no-one's "fault", just a thought about ways in which LJ security doesn't work well when people share computers so close to each other. It's always weird seeing Weds' articles in passing on Richard's screen and having to remember not to just read them. There may well be stuff the other way round too, but of course you can never tell, because the articles you're reading give no indication of who else can read them.