Maine Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Bloggy Nesties
For those of you with blogs, do you have yours pw protected? I know one of you does so you have to be invited to read.
Do you ever get concerned about them being public? I mean, I guess that's why people blog but I'm just starting to think about photos, etc. (as I search photos and copy and save things from other people's blogs all the time).
What are your thoughts?
And thanks for the link-backs to those that have my listed in their favs! I need to figure out how to do that. Maybe that will be this weekend's project.
Re: Bloggy Nesties
Hey Darcie,
My blog is password protected. I had to do this a while back because my job as a teacher, I have always had a lot of students who do whatever they can to find me online. Why? I don't know
I also have a lot of pictures of Luke on there and I don't want them open for the world to see.
I often wish my blog was public, just cause it does seem like the point of a blog. But, in the same token, when I add something and my husband is like, "you put that on your blog" I can come back that I know every person who can read it
I've decided that as long as I am a teacher, my blog will be private.
I have been reading your blog and love it
Linked you on my blog!!
Mine is public, but that's because I want people in the CF community to be able to find it. I have gotten a bunch of comments from women with CF who have said my blog has given them hope that they may be able to be a mom, so that makes it worth whatever embarrassment I might feel if someone I know IRL comes across it (I don't mind you guys or my friend reading it, but I would be embarrassed if an old coworker came across it).
As far a pictures of DD - I would like to ask what is the risk? I've never heard of someone hunting down someone's child after seeing a picture of them online. I know people have used pictures w/out permission and that would annoy me, but I haven't heard it is dangerous. If it is, I would really like to know!
Yes, I wonder this, too. I'm probably just naive. Erin, is it easy to make it password protected after it's already been public?
I had a blog going last Spring when DH and I went on a cross-country trip because a lot of friends and family expressed interest. It wasn't password protected, but the only time I was mildly creeped out was when a guy from Utah replied to a post I had written about one of the national parks we went to there (he was trying to correct a statistic I used or something, so maybe I was just bitter...haha). I then realized how much personal information I had been posting about and, obviously, the fact that everyone that read it knew we weren't going to be home for over a month...duh!
That being said, I guess that would be my only real concern - posting about going away and never knowing who is reading it and if they know where you live. I realize this is kind of over-paranoid. Also, I don't have kids, so I haven't really given much thought to having the photos up on the internet...however, it seems like all of my friends and family with kids that have Facebook pages or blogs post photos without thinking twice.
Mine is password protected (well my Abe blog...my food blog isn't). I just don't think that the world needs to be seeing pictures of my kid.
It has become kind of a pain the ass though. Family members keep "losing" the link. And they need another invite sent.
I dunno. I just hate the thought of someone that I don't know looking at pictures of Abe.
Mine is public and I have actually posted my last name on it before (in a rant about why women shouldn't feel like they have to change their names when they get married), and creepy stalkers could definitely find me if they wanted to. But that's for me, and I don't have any children or a DH to "protect" so to speak.
For the guy I'm dating, I won't use his first name or post his photo without getting his okay first and I would never post his son's name or photo. With most friends, if they have a blog where they use their first name, I'll refer to them by first name and for people who don't have that kind of internet "presence" I'll either use a first initial or a nickname.
So I'm completely ridiculous and careless about my own privacy but respectful of the people I mention, if that makes sense. I'm actually working on a blog overhaul which would include my url becoming my full name, which may be a long ways off but may result in my blog link being removed from my nest signature!
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -Henry Miller
http://cookthehumbletable.blogspot.com/
I haven't got a chance to read all of yours, but I have been meaning to tell you how inspiring it was to read what I did get a chance to. I appreciate your blog being public, for someone who knew nothing of CF or the challenges CF can cause with getting pregnant, it really was an amazing learning experience.
Annie, it was super easy. Mine wasn't password protected for a year or more, and I simply went in and added a password. The only PIA is that you do have to invite someone, they can't request. But, its not the end of the world.
The only other thing I don't like about pwp is that you don't show up on your followers dashboards, if people follow you. So it doesn't tell people when there is a new post. I honestly don't even know who reads mine, if anyone, so I just keep writing away. It's very theraputic for me and actually a great way to journal. Though I don't put everything I'd like to in there - I try to be semi positive and not talk trash, hehehe.
My concern for public use and pics of my kid is that there are a lot of freaks out there. There was a news story about pedophiles going on facebook to look at pictures of people kids. Also, I use our names and put a lot of information that would directly link right to us. Can't be too safe.
If I were to go public, I was thinking of changing our names to Betty and Bam Bam - guess who Luke would be
I have to second this! Yours was one of the blog links I clicked on a little while back and I very much appreciate you sharing your story. Like CopperDog, I didn't know much about CF, so it was fascinating to read. I can only imagine how others with CF would benefit from your experience being available to read.
Thank you guys sooo much! That makes me really happy