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I think there are more possible options -- for instance, my personal preference would be to prohibit external search engine and site-wide searches of my content, but permit searches of my specific content -- e.g. people could come and search my posts on snails, or whatever, but if they searched Google or DW-as-a-whole for posts on snails, mine would not come up.

Which mostly has to do with me feeling like this is my social life, and that therefore I'm under no particular obligations to the internet as a whole to make it universally searchable.

You know, that last part is very compelling to me. When I initially set up my LJ, I opted to allow search engines (even though I didn't actually expect anyone to find my posts that way) on general principle: it just seemed like good internet citizenship to be searchable and discoverable as a default.

But your comment makes me wonder where I got that idea, and why I bought into it. It feels like part of a certain "information wants to be free" internet ideology: Access! Link! Share! Create! Comment! Connect! Consume!

(These thoughts inspired by

oyceter's IBARW post On knowledge and knowing and audience)

There are certainly places and spaces where I do my part to free the ole information -- but, despite the obviously-strong bias in various parts of internetlandia, I see no particular reason why online social networks, as such, should be places where people feel a need to be making themselves constantly available to all comers.

It's the difference between a performative model and a social model. Much of the blogosphere is performative, but a lot of other social spaces really aren't, and there's no particular reason why they should be.

I used to be a B but I'm easily irritated at this point and have edged into the A category. I forget who said "I am not your user-generated content" but I'd like to add "I am not your online [insert subject/product here] research sample" as a rider.

I wouldn't mind if my access-listers could search my entire journal, though.

Raw anecdata: a Google search of "hegemony theater" yields 310 results; the top ones point to an entry on a Star Wars wiki; many others are junk results; and a stray two or three link to comments to my posts.

I'm basically a C, but that's really about "because it would be convenient for me if everyone were a C" plus "my LJ's been Google-searchable from the outset with null impact either pro or con as far as I can see." Though I occasionally wonder if I'd be making more personal/biographical posts had I approached LJ differently.

Oh my god that's AWESOME.

The Hegemony theater was the campaign by the New Republic against the Ciutric Hegemony of Prince-Admiral Delak Krennel in 9 ABY, just after the defeat of Thrawn.

Heeeee! I feel so pedestrian for having stolen my version from Bruce Schneier via his coinage of "security theatre," yawn.

>>Though I occasionally wonder if I'd be making more personal/biographical posts had I approached LJ differently.

I maybe? probably? have a false sense of security about this. My RL and OL circles overlap almost nowhere and I'm pretty careful to shield my pseud from professional contacts especially. Advertisers and prospective employers excluded, I sort of have a why-would-anyone-care attitude for most of what I post. Anyway, results like your Google search are exactly what I'm looking for.

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