Well, in fairness I believe this is already (and always has been) true of text posts -- that people can access a post at random, and sort of "browse" LJ. So from the LJ team's POV, this probably isn't much of a change: they're just doing for phoneposts what was already available for text.
The thing that they've misunderstood is that the psychology of voiceposts is slightly different: the simple fact of it being voice makes it just a smidgeon more personal. Moreover, if FRNK Radio is sending the same stream to everyone, it changes the odds a lot -- there's a small chance of your posting being heard by *many* people, instead of a somewhat larger chance of it being seen by one.
So I think it's a pretty innocent mistake, but it *is* a mistake, IMO. My guess is that they'll be prodded into giving an opt-out within the next couple of months...
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Date: 2006-09-04 11:00 pm (UTC)The thing that they've misunderstood is that the psychology of voiceposts is slightly different: the simple fact of it being voice makes it just a smidgeon more personal. Moreover, if FRNK Radio is sending the same stream to everyone, it changes the odds a lot -- there's a small chance of your posting being heard by *many* people, instead of a somewhat larger chance of it being seen by one.
So I think it's a pretty innocent mistake, but it *is* a mistake, IMO. My guess is that they'll be prodded into giving an opt-out within the next couple of months...