Bad Dream

[vettecat]

A friend points out that if a friend of yours creates a DreamWidth account, and imports their journal... and you've ever commented on their journal... it creates an account for you, too. Without approval or permission. So if someone looks for you on DW, it'll look like you're active there, though you may not have ever used the site at all, or have any desire to. Seems rather creepy.

Comments

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Actually, it doesn't create a DreamWidth account per se, it uses your LiveJournal account via OpenID. If you then log in using OpenID, that creates the actual DreamWidth account.

In that sense, it's no worse than, say, some mailing list archive site that indexes stuff by sender. You may never have used that site, but it's correctly archiving the stuff that you wrote that it knows about.