| Monday, June 13, 2005 |
| What's Your Deal, Pickle? |
Some of you may be wondering why I made a couple of changes to the blog this weekend that further conceal my identity. And some of you may have a life and gone to the lake or gone skydiving this weekend and haven't given a second thought to my paranoia.
Paranoia? Did somebody say paranoia?
Maybe it's the fact that I keep getting hits from people Googling "somebody or other naakked [sic]" and clicks on Google images that lead to this post. After awhile, it's just not funny anymore. This is a blog about my firstborn, after all.
I suppose the event that really jumpstarted it all was an email I received last week from a state newspaper reporter doing a story on bloggers. "Oh yeah!" was my immediate reaction. I'm a media hog just like the next person and I'm not afraid to admit it. This time, however, was different. This blog isn't about me, it's about my daughter...with pictures.
Coincidentally, the same day I received this email, I had just read an article on Google Maps that compelled me check out my state's registered sex offender website. After all, you never can know too much about your neighbors. The results cranked away and I was left with 3, wait three? no way! results in the very suburbia I live in. That's three too many, folks.
I'm not one to normally conceal anything, ergo, the name of this blog. It's started to hit me as I browse through the blogworld that names are best left made up or abbreviated: Mrtl has her Bug, Susie has her LG, Corporate Mommy has a Bear, BusyMom has some BusyKids, and JG is married to thewife and has a Little Tyke. And here I am blabbing to the world-wide Internet all of our first and last names. Would you like our bank account, social security numbers, and a side of fries with that, too?
I'm Tangent Girl today, so back to the news reporter...
I thanked her for the kind email, declined because of the potential danger, and then proceeded to tell her of the unwritten rules of blogging:
#1) Never, ever tell any friends, extended family, or
co-workers about your blog. It's a lot easier that
way since most of the stories you relate are about
those closest to you.
#2) Never, ever blog about work, your company, or
co-workers.
#3) Try not to use real names or locations of the
people involved in the story you are telling.
#4) If you do any of the above, Google will find you.
Miss Reporter replied back and said she'd never thought of blogging in that way. Well, neither had I until she sent me that first email. I suppose the media hog in me will have to return to the slop bucket in the barn. It's all worth it to protect my LG. Oh crap, that one's already taken! ;)
Do you have any blogging rules of your own to add to the list? I'm also taking suggestions on what to call the significant other. Hubs sounds too much like a hubcap. Hubster really doesn't flow either. I think Rancito is at the top of my list right now. |
| posted by ieatcrayonz @ 6/13/2005 |
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