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0 pointsjohnisgood4y ago0 comments

> It's completely reasonable for someone to give you a letter or photo of a personal nature and ask you not to share it (or simply expect you to understand that it's not to be shared).

Yeah, and because I am a good friend, I will not share those photos with anyone, especially if they ask me not to. :)

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p49k4y ago· 2 in thread

Yes and some people are somewhat bad friends, and will share them, but not if there's a small barrier to overcome, as it's not worth the effort.

And people are terrible friends and will take the time/effort to bypass any measures necessary to share the photo.

The feature is designed to address the "somewhat bad" case, not to be perfect.

johnisgoodOP4y ago

> And people are terrible friends and will take the time/effort to bypass any measures necessary to share the photo.

Exactly. They will pretty much bypass this one as well.

p49k4y ago

Yes, that's exactly what I said. The feature is designed to address the "somewhat bad friend" case, not the "terrible friend" case. Both of those kinds of people exist in the world.

Reducing the chance of something that you didn't want shared from being shared by a factor of X% is better than nothing. Try to step out of black-and-white thinking for a minute. Just because something is not perfect doesn't mean it's useless.

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