I was talking with an IRL blogging friend a little while ago about blog privacy. We have both thought about making our blogs private at one time or another. But, as I shared with her, I know that there are many of you, dear readers (mostly my family, ahem) that probably would not have profiles or want to go through the hassles of signing on for my private blog.
Couple that with the fact that from time to time I receive wonderful comments from people who I had no idea were reading my blog, and the numerous personal blogs that I enjoy reading and would miss if they were to go private... and I realize I just don't want to make it private right now.
But I am still concerned about privacy. If there are good people- both known and unknown to me- reading my blog, then there surely could be not-so-good people. I'm sure you've heard horror stories about people's pictures or information being taken and misused from their blogs. I even read an article a few days ago about the ability to actually steal someone's identity via their blogging information! Scary.
So, I've been trying to be a little more careful. I disabled the right click function so that people can't copy my photos. (I'm told there are ways around this, but I am at least making it a little less convenient.) I've removed our closest city/state from my profile.
And I'm going to be changing the way in which I refer to myself & my family. I'm going to be just Kaolinmommy. Or maybe Mommyk. My hubs will be DaddyClay. And my girls will have new bloggy names too. Since I'm out of clay imagery, they will just have to do with Big Sister and Little Sister. If we have another girl (not in the plans, before you start wondering!) we'll have to figure something out.
I've contemplated these names for a while and can't think of anything better. If something else comes along (and believe me, I'm open to suggestions) I'll edit this posting to reflect it. I don't think I like the abrupt nature of only using initials, and I want to keep a little of my bloggy theme if possible. But I don't want to go overboard. Or involve an entire fast food menu (kwim?) So please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Now that I have decided this, I will have to go back and change the names on my old posts. Blogger has no "search & replace" for all of your posts, so I'll do it one by one. Delightful, no? To quote a movie my daughter is anxiously waiting to see, "It looks like this could take some time!"
2 comments:
I totally understand that--whether the blog is FOR those in your real life or if it specifically isn't, you always run into privacy issues of some sort. I don't think hardly anyone from my "IRL" world reads, and I'm ok with that and make a point not to advertise the site or anything. I'm glad some do, like you, because it's nice to know that someone reading my words actually knows me. Anyway, am rambling, but I do understand why you'd want to keep the girls names, etc as secure as you can!
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