Derailed

I have become a major blogging slacker. I think my current blogging funk stemmed from something that happened almost three years ago. In addition to this blog, I was keeping a family blog. Nothing exciting, just random family stuff. I did not want to make my blog private for several reasons. 1) I felt like what I had to say was interesting to no one but those who knew me and my family. 2) It is annoying when you find the blog of someone from your past and it is private! If I had their e-mail address I wouldn't have to spy on them via their blog! ;) 3) Going private would have been difficult for the technologically challenged people in my life. So anyway, for fun I added one of those fun little feeds at the bottom of my page that showed when someone visited the blog, when they visited, and what they viewed while there. One day I noticed that someone from Belgium had visited my blog. Belgium? Wow. How random. I noticed they had viewed pictures. I clicked on the links. Up pops photos of my then 3 year old daughter in her swim suit at the splash park. I had innocently posted photos of my children having fun in the water and some random person from another country was looking at them for reasons that made me sick to even imagine. I felt violated, angry, and ashamed. I closed up my family blog right away. I didn't want anyone to know how stupid I had been for posting pictures of my family that people with bad intentions could have access to. I've felt sort of derailed when it comes to blogging since then.

My advice to other blogger is this. Be careful about what pictures you post. I never imagined that posting pictures of my sweet little girl splashing around in the water in a swim suit would be unsafe. There are so many creepy people out there.

I miss sharing my thoughts. I hope I can find my niche again sometime soon!