explain default permissions choices better

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 On your settings page, you will find a list of default permissions. These permissions are automatically applied to everybody unless you specify otherwise. The scope of these permissions varies from "Only me" to "Everybody" - though some scopes may not be available for some permissions. For example, you can't allow "anybody on the internet" to send you private messages, because we'd have no way to identify the sender, therefore no way to reply to them.

 

+We highly recommend that you use the "typical social network" settings when you first create your account, as it allows others to communicate with you and help you out if you have difficulty. You will find that these settings allow you as much privacy as you desire - when you desire it; but also allow you to communicate in public if you choose to. You are free to use much more private settings once you have learned your way around.

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+Be aware that altering the scope of who can see your "public" items is a more or less [b]permanent[/b] change. Your public items have no identified permissions attached to them - they are public. If you restrict who can see these items, there is no way of making any single item public ever again - without allowing access to every public item you ever created. You are certainly free to do this, but beware of the consequences.

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+A more useful privacy setup is to leave "public" items visible to anybody on the internet; but force everything you create to be restricted. This can be done on your Settings page by setting a Default Privacy Group for all new contacts, and setting your Default Post Permissions to restrict all your posts to that group. We use the Default Post Permissions for everything you create - posts, photos, events, webpages, and everything else. However you can then edit the permissions when you create any individual thing and remove your default privacy group to make just that item visible to anybody.   

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 The scopes of permissions are:

 

 [li]Nobody Except Yourself. This is self explanatory. Only you will be allowed to use this permission.[/li]

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 [li]Anybody On This Website. Anybody using the same website as you will have permission approved. Anybody who registered at a different site will have this permission denied.[/li]

 

-[li]Anybody in this network. Anybody in the Red Matrix will have this permission approved. Even complete strangers. However, anybody not logged in/authenticated will have this permission denied.

-Anybody on the internet. Completely public. This permission will be approved for anybody at all.[/li]

+[li]Anybody in this network. Anybody in the Red Matrix will have this permission approved. Even complete strangers. However, anybody not logged in/authenticated will have this permission denied.[/li]

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+[li]Anybody authenticated. This is similar to "anybody in this network" except that it can include anybody who can authenticate by any means - and therefore may include visitors from other networks.[/li]

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+[li]Anybody on the internet. Completely public. This permission will be approved for anybody at all.[/li]

 

 The individual permissions are: