Vox Tip: Selectively Sharing on Vox
One of the many great features on Vox is the privacy control available to you! Vox gives you the control to decide who can read your posts or see your other media items.
Let's take a quick look at the privacy levels available to Vox members. At one end of the spectrum, you can make your post or item public so that anyone who visits Vox can see it. At the other end, you can choose to make something a draft so that it only shows to you. In between, you have three options: your friends and family, just your friends, or just your family. Take a look at All About Privacy to learn more about privacy control on Vox.
Whenever you're adding a new post or item to your library, you can easily select the privacy setting you want from a drop down box listing all the privacy options.
So what do these privacy options really mean for Vox members? Maybe you want to talk about that great date you had last week without your parents asking a lot of questions you don't want to answer. Put your parents in your family group and give your friends the scoop in a post to your friends group.
Want to show off some pictures of the newest baby in your family without
So when your friends and family visit your blog, they'll want to be sure they are signed in to their account so they can see everything they have permission to view. If they don't have an account yet, make sure they sign up! Having more of your friends and family involved in Vox makes sharing your posts and items even more fun.
Many of you have already been taking advantage of the privacy control that Vox gives to members. Who out there has created a blog on Vox because you get to choose who sees what? Tell us your story in the comments.
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Now I'm waiting for our son to grow up...
Keep up the good work, guys!
1) Vox members - anyone who is signed in with a Vox account.
2) your neighbors - anyone who you have added to your neighborhood.
I can assure you that Google cannot see anything but public posts.
The real test is to call up a friend who isn't logged in to Vox and have them test it out for you. Give them the exact string you searched for and see if they can see your private post.
The best thing I can say about Vox is that the privacy settings allow first-time bloggers to get their feet wet without screwing up big-time in front of a million people. I set my default at "draft only" so that my posts never get published without me intentionally marking it for the appropriate category. (Unfortunately, I have 10 or so drafts.)
I would welcome a "neighbors" category too, but I would really like the ability to create a list, like "girlfriends". Or is there a way to do that and I haven't found it?
while i love love LOVE the photo etc etc adding available in vox, i confess it has been a really big headache and a big letdown switching here from livejournal, where (although i guess lech never noticed it) you can make unlimited custom friends groups and post to whomever you like. i guess i somehow got the impression that privacy was the same here, but it really isn't i had a group for each of my friends, with just them in it, so i could pick exactly who should see the post, down to a person. going from that to this has made me really want to swtich back, but now i am so used to the easy photo incorporation.
i dunno...now i am really torn....vox or lj? i gather it's the same people running both--could you just borrow the lj code? is custom friends list a high priority at all?
Feel free to comment back here or private message me with further info or concerns.
I can vouch for Randy's post on privacy levels. It helped through my first several posts here on Vox. (Hi, neighbor!)
I tested some searches. I didn't find any hits on stuff in the friends and family posts, but one thing to keep in mind is that, if someone's post is "viewable by the world" so are all the comments, so be sure that you don't reveal something in a comment on a public post that you wouldn't want the world to see. I found some of my comments on Google but all of them were on "the world" posts.
i.e. i want all my friends to read about the guy im dating, but not him. but i want him on my friends reading list. etc.
well... first, advance congratulations for the launching tomorrow! =)
secondly, VOX would be perfect if there's like public comment feature on it.. all my friends ask if people who are non-vox users can give out their comments, i said "no"... and each said that's the first thing they look for in a blog site, just like what they have.. but they're willing to transfer to vox, only for that detail.
and privacy tool, best... except that "google search" thing.. i haven't tried it yet.
Not trying to be antagonistic, just asking because I'm a new blogger. If your friends want to have anyone outside of Vox comment, why wouldn't they just keep their blog outside of Vox? Or...they could keep two blogs and cross post.
I mean, why would you want people who won't register at Vox commenting on your post? Or did I miss your meaning?
It would be great if a "neighbours" category is created, so I can keep ALL my posts private, but keep distinct ones for neighbours and friends/ family.
But overall, Vox is great! :)