Following the Crowd

So I have been pretty ok with sharing my family with the world thus far. I think mostly because when I find an old acquaintance's blog I want to see but I have no way of contacting them I am sad. Well I was invited through facebook to view my high school friends blog and saw a compelling reason to go private.

This is what her reason was for going private, "After reading another friends blog talking about a recent Oprah show I knew it was definitely time. In short, a police officer was a guest on the show & said he had 4 simple tips to protect your children...here's #3: 3. Don't share pictures of your child over the Internet."Number one, you won't find my children on the Internet," Rob says. "A lot of parents will put their kids as infants. Well, I've done so many search warrants where we seize pictures people have downloaded off the Internet of infants and 2- and 3-year-olds for sexual gratification. I would never put my children on the Internet."If you want to share pictures with your family and friends on social networking sites such as Facebook, Rob says to make sure your security settings are set so that only your friends can view the images. " A lot of people leave it wide open for the whole world to see, and that's probably one of the biggest mistakes. Most social networking sites out there will have security features in place under the privacy setting."

I don't know about you, but that reason sickens me. After working with kids (four years ago) who had prior sexual misconducts in their past I realize that it is far more prevalent than I would like to admit. So I am going private. I would hope that there are many of you who secretly read this often and will ask to be given permission to view. If not it's ok because truly my overall goal in writing this blog is to leave behind my thoughts and ideas for my posterity so they will be able to know me when I am gone.

So anyway leave me a note here or send me an email if you want to be added on my permission list. I hope to hear from all of you.

Marlies