A: Thanks for the intention of sharing your personal life with others. Here are some options:

• If you want to share with just a few personal friends on You4ia!, the best way is to build your personal relationships networks on You4ia!, then use the appropriate network as the limit of the exposure of your post(s). If this sounds a bit technical, let us put you at ease. To build your personal networks, just go to the user profiles of the people you want to intimately connect with and in their status box (upper left section of their profile page) you will see links +friend, +relative, etc. We suggest the Best Friends network for your most intimate sharing.  Once you have added all your Best Friends, you are ready to add your blog or other content. In the blog (or other content) creation form, you will see a section that says "Make this post private to my relationships". Click to open, and under the View column on the appropriate relationship (such as Best Friends) row, click the box to check it. Once this is done, everyone who is not a Best Friend will not be able to see the post when you save it.
• Private Groups. This requires that you are member of a private group you feel comfortable sharing with. When you create the post, in the section "Groups I'm posting to", select the group you wish to share with.  Make sure the box "Make Public" is not checked. If it is, uncheck it. Then when you save, only members of the group(s) will be able to see your posts. It will still show up in the Blog Vortex, but only for members of groups you selected.
• Semi-Private Groups. You can post, same as described for Private Groups above, to public groups. Because you are going to make sure the Make Public box is not checked, no one but members of the group(s) will see it. However it is only semi-private because anyone can join  a public group and once they do they will be able to access it. It's kind of like hiding something in a drawer someone could open if they bothered to, rather than a locked safe.
• To share with only one person, you can always use the Private Message feature, accessible from My Messages under the My You4ia! menu.
• Keep in mind this caveat: any user who has administrative privileges for the website can access the information you post regardless of any of the above. This is a very small number of people who are very concerned about your privacy and confidentiality.