+If you look carefully when visiting a group from your Network page, the lock icon under the status update box has an exclamation mark next to it.
+This is meant to draw attention to that lock.
+Click the lock.
+You will see that since you are only viewing a certain group of people, your status updates while on that screen default to only being seen by that same group of people.
+This is how you keep your future employers from seeing what you write to your drinking buddies.
+You can over-ride this setting, but this makes it easy to separate your conversations into different friend circles.
+
+**Default Post Privacy**
+
+By default, Friendica assumes that you want all of your posts to be private.
+Therefore, when you sign up, Friendica creates a group for you that it will automatically add all of your contacts to.
+All of your posts are restricted to that group by default.
+
+Note that this behaviour can be overridden by your site admin, in which case your posts will be "public" (i.e. visible to the entire Internet) by default.
+
+If you want your posts to be "public" by default, you can change your default post permissions on your Settings page.
+You also have the option there to change which groups you post to by default, or to change which group your new contacts get placed into by default.
+
+**Privacy Concerns To Be Aware Of**
+
+These private conversations work best when your friends are Friendica members.
+We know who else can see the conversations - nobody, *unless* your friends cut and paste the messages and send them to others.
+
+This is a trust issue you need to be aware of.
+No software in the world can prevent your friends from leaking your confidential and trusted communications.
+Only a wise choice of friends.
+
+But it isn't as clear cut when dealing with GNU Social and other network providers.
+If you look at the Contact Edit page for any person, we will tell you whether or not they are members of an insecure network where you should exercise caution.
+
+Once you have created a post, you can not change the permissions assigned.
+Within seconds it has been delivered to lots of people - and perhaps everybody it was addressed to.
+If you mistakenly created a message and wish you could take it back, the best you can do is to delete it.
+We will send out a delete notification to everybody who received the message - and this should wipe out the message with the same speed it was initially propagated.
+In most cases it will be completely wiped from the Internet - in under a minute.
+Again, this applies to Friendica networks.
+Once a message spreads to other networks, it may not be removed quickly and in some cases it may not be removed at all.
+
+In case you haven't yet figured this out, we are encouraging you to encourage your friends to use Friendica - because all these privacy features work much better within a privacy-aware network.
+Many of the other social networks Friendica can connect to have no privacy controls.
+
+
+Profiles, Photos, and Privacy
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+The decentralised nature of Friendica (many websites exchanging information rather than one website which controls everything) has some implications with privacy as it relates to people on other sites.
+There are things you should be aware of, so you can decide best how to interact privately.
+
+**Photos**