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๐Ÿ”’ Private Posts ๐Ÿšท for your Friends & Circles Only ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿ‘ญ๐Ÿ‘ฌ๐Ÿ‘ซ

Similar Worlds has now added the ability for users to create
Private (Circle/Friends Only) Posts!

Steps:

โ˜€๏ธ Create a New Post: https://similarworlds.com/post

โ˜‘๏ธ Select a Post Type

โœ’๏ธ Write your Post Title & Content

... then in the options available below the post content box, users should now see the following options:

Visible to: ๐Ÿ”˜ Everyone | ๐Ÿ”˜ Circle/Friends



"Private Posts" allow users to communicate much more freely and openly, with a form of privacy, between trusted Friends and Acquaintances.

Posts marked as "Visible to Circle/Friends", can only be Seen and Accessed by those in the poster's Circle and Friends Lists.

Once a post has been created as "Private" (Circle/Friends), it cannot be converted into Public (Everyone) thereafter (for privacy reasons, to the existing commenters).


We hope that you will be able to enjoy and make good use of this and other new features we have worked hard on and released for you all!

Kind regards!
-SW Staff
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Tminus6453 ยท M
I dont like this, it will exclude a lot of people i like from seeing their post unless i go around and friend them all...and i dont like a large friend list..it can bring a lot of users feed to a crawl.. bad idea
Nuno ยท Admin
@Tminus6453 You can just keep your posts visible to Public/Everyone. You don't have to go friend everyone. This is an optional feature.
Tminus6453 ยท M
@Nuno But how will i see their post if they restrict them to their friends list only? and im not on their list?
Nuno ยท Admin
@Tminus6453 Then that's their choice, and what this privacy setting is for :)
Tminus6453 ยท M
@Nuno So its an unintentional reverse blocking... bad bad idea..
Nuno ยท Admin
@Tminus6453 Most people don't seem to think this is a bad idea. We're just providing people with options. If people don't want a post to be seen by Everyone, until now they would just not post. Now, at least they have the option to keep a specific post more private if they wish.
Tminus6453 ยท M
@Nuno lol... sure some people will like it...but you dont see my point though?... its a reverse blocking yet they dont mean to block me.... dumb idea
Andrew ยท Admin
@Tminus6453 by default, all posts are "Public".

If a user creates a post as "Private" (Friend/Circles Only), that likely means that the topic of that post, is one they prefer to only discuss amongst friends/familiars.

We expect most posts to still be "Public", except for those where poster prefers some privacy for that particular thread.
Tminus6453 ยท M
@Andrew But It prevents potentially making future friends and or connection with that person though if you have the same issues/likes/dislikes as them... and thats how you make a lot of connections on here.. i never would have met my best friend on here if she made her private post actually private
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DontLikeMondays ยท 51-55, M
@Tminus6453 My thoughts exactly, this has split the site in half and limited the potential of making a relevant circle of friends, killed it for any newcomers.