Comparative Audit / Field Matrix
Four networks, five exposure planes.
This page compares the chapters through the same editorial lens: identity, behavior, audience, portability, and recovery.
Method
Scores are qualitative. They are designed for practical account decisions, not as compliance ratings or legal conclusions.
More exposed Mixed More contained
The matrix.
Read horizontally for a platform, vertically for a pattern. The best choice depends on why you need a network in the first place.
| Exposure Plane | Blind | Peerlist | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identity binding | Direct Real-name professional identity is the point. |
Split Public pseudonym, workplace verification, context clues. |
Direct Directory profile ties work identity to local market. |
Evidence Projects and credentials connect identity to artifacts. |
| Behavioral signal | Broad Search, views, reactions, applications, messages, and feed behavior. |
Conversational Posts, replies, votes, topics, and incident details. |
Directory Search, contacts, events, groups, and profile edits. |
Portfolio Updates, follows, launches, comments, and proof signals. |
| Audience ambiguity | High Recruiters, advertisers, colleagues, sales teams, and strangers read the same surface. |
High in context Anonymous to the public, recognizable to insiders when details are rare. |
Regional Smaller audience, often more professionally relevant. |
Focused Audience is narrower, but artifacts may travel outside the platform. |
| Control friction | Many toggles Useful controls exist, but the account has many surfaces to revisit. |
Behavior-led Privacy depends heavily on writing discipline. |
Profile-led Discovery settings and profile fields carry much of the work. |
Artifact-led Sanitizing projects is the main control point. |
| Deletion reality | Check copies Public pages, search snippets, messages, and exported contacts may persist elsewhere. |
Threads persist Removing posts may not remove quotes, screenshots, or community memory. |
Directory cleanup Public profile fields are easier to reason about than feed history. |
Links persist Project references can remain in portfolios, launch pages, and search caches. |
Portable checklist.
Apply this to any professional network before you add more history to it.
Use a logged-out browser and inspect what search engines, recruiters, and casual visitors can see.
Keep details that improve discovery or credibility. Remove decorative facts that only increase linkage.
Do not let every job-search action, salary concern, or workplace complaint attach to the same durable persona.
When a platform allows exports, keep a local copy before cleanup so you do not lose your own professional archive.
Quarterly is enough for most people. Review visibility, connected apps, sessions, notifications, and old posts.