Closed circles

The problem

Not everything you write is for everyone. The anecdote about that fight with your sister isn't for your sister. The high-school crush story isn't for your partner. But you don't want to maintain three separate apps or three parallel documents either. You need real granularity inside the same place.

What Anecdotario does

Every anecdote has an explicit visibility. The options:

• Private. Only you see it. Default for anything new.
• Friends. Visible to everyone you accepted as a friend in the app.
• Closed circles. You define the circle — "Family", "Work friends", "The block crew". Each anecdote is assigned to one or more circles, and only members of those circles see it.

How circles are managed

You build groups in /circulos:

• You name it.
• You add members one by one from your friend list. They have to be friends in the app first — we don't add anyone without their knowledge.
• You edit members when relationships change. If someone leaves the circle, they stop seeing anecdotes marked for that group.

No surprises

• There's no "suggest adding your brother-in-law" or "people you might know." You know whom you want to share with. The app doesn't suggest expanding your circle.
• No viral shares or trending among your contacts. Each anecdote goes where you sent it and stays there.
• No anonymous audience. When an anecdote is in a circle, you know exactly who can read it — it's a list of names, not a number.
• No public link — a public link to an anecdote was an idea we dropped on security grounds. If you want to show a specific piece to someone outside your circles, you can export it in .md/.pdf and send it yourself.

Why it matters

A fast social network gives you one dial: public / private. A slow one understands that most of what you write lives in the middle — shared with specific people, in specific contexts, for specific reasons. Closed circles are how Anecdotario respects that reality.