Blogging Thoughts

Blogging is fun. I like having snipets and memories recorded somewhere since my brain is incapable of remembering everything. However, I know that my blogs are not a totally accurate representation of my life. My blog is censored... I don't write everything I'd like to because I don't want to offend people who may read my blog. Jonathan went through my blog a few weeks ago and wasn't happy about certain things I'd written about him. He asked me to remove a few thing but I refused because hey, it's my blog. But since then, I make sure that my posts won't offend my readers, however jaded that makes my life appear.

The other day on the local news they did a story about blog safety. Evidently the new fun "cyber-crime" is to steal pictures and stories from blogs and pass them off as your own. They told about some mohawked kid whose picture was stolen and altered to make him look like a Nazi-Skinhead. I thought it was kid of funny because the lovely sheltered Utah family was sure people would recognize their kid and come after them with threats and violence. and I promise, the 3 boys and Dan really are mine and all our stories are true! Anyway, the news story gave tips on how to protect yourseld from "blogger theives". Evidently, I don't protect myself satisfactorally. I should have my blog password protected. I should never post pictures of my boys (then who would want to read my blog?). I should never use their real names. I am okay in 2 areas though... No home address is posted, nor do I have pictures of the inside of my house showing potential burglars what they could steal. Maybe I should take and post picture of the inside of my house... that way the potential burglars would know that we don't have anything worth stealing and they could commit their crime somewhere else.