Ok, call me paranoid. After reading a book this past weekend, I have become really concerned with having our family's information on the internet for all to see. It was one of those really disturbing books that makes you sick to your stomach to read, but for some reason I just couldn't put it down because I wanted to know exactly what kind of gruesome people live in this world. Although it was a work of fiction, I know people like that exist, and I want to protect my family from predators. I don't want to make our blog completely private, having only the few invited people able to see it, but I also wanted to take more steps to make it harder for someone with bad intentions to have access to us.
So, from now on, we will not be using our boys' names in our blog, nor our last name. We've decided to call them by nicknames in this blog, so if you could also use those in your comments, we'd appreciate it. We also won't be referring to our town we live in by name either, just our region of the country. Our older son will now be known as "Mister" in our blog and our younger son will be "Pumpkin".
We also needed to change the title of our blog since it used to have our last name in it. So we'd like your input on coming up with a new name for our blog that we can use instead. I'm not that creative, so it's been hard for me to come up with something.
So, while some might think I'm paranoid, I'd rather be safe than sorry. I just can't bear the thought of anything happening to my sons, so I'm going to take more precautions to keep them safe, while still sharing our stories and pictures with you all.
6 comments:
Wow..sooo...I wanna read the blog post that you read that started this. Can you link me to it?
I've often thought that as long as you don't post last names or the city you live in, etc you should be fine. For example we always say "Seattle" but we don't actually live in Seattle. We live about 45 min outside of it.
I dunno, I guess since I use my real name for my music I am not as cautious about stuff. I've never been stalked or had any problems, but I also take great care to ensure I keep my music and personal life seperate (which is why I ONLY use the name Jenni on my blogs so if someone googles my professional name my personal stuff won't come up).
I agree with you too - changing the blog to private is a nice idea but its also quite cumbersome. I often like meeting new people on the web too whom I wouldn't have otherwise met if I didn't blog. But I can also totally understand why you would want it private though.
I think you are sooo smart. I've been thinking about doing the same thing for a while but just really haven't decided when to begin.
That's too crazy that you are going to do that - I was actually just thinking the other day of doing the same thing and have been working on coming up with nicknames for the boys.
Jenni, the book is called "Say Goodbye" by Lisa Gardner. She writes mystery/suspense books. Her books are always pretty graphic, but this one was particularly disturbing because it had so much to do with child abduction and abuse. Only read it if you've got a strong stomach. It was tough to get through.
I think that's really smart Mariss... My mom has been begging me to get off of Facebook too because of how creepy it all has become. I didn't really buy it until we were in Houston for my friend's wedding and were at a bar and someone I haven't seen since HIGH SCHOOL walked up and said "Hi, you must be Kiel" to Kiel!!!! SCARY STUFF! I haven't talked to her in over 7 years and she knew Kiel by name because of seeing him in my pictures. Luckily, she isn't a predator and Kiel isn't a child, but it just goes to show how this whole thing can get crazy scary.
I don't blame you... it's really scary out there and sometimes I feel guilty about not doing enough to stay private. Let me know if you change your blog address or anything.
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