Thread:Talk:StructuredProfile/Public Versus Private Data

If we want to learn from other social networks, we may want to add a feature of degrees of semi-privateness, which allows to share personal data with some peer-group, or all logged-in users, but not the general public.

For instance, I know several users of one or another regular local editors meetup who share considerably more personal info with each other in real life than they would be willing to publish on their user pages.

In a non-WMF context, I have been in contact with project contributors who could not make their contributions to the project in ways that their employers would recognize, though their employers interests were not touched. While the project communication was otherwise through public mailing lists, these specific persons had to use non public channels when their expertise, skills, and knowledge could be identifying them.