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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Blogs?
I really want to do one,(not that anyone would read it), but I think it would be a fun way of doing a diary. My H, however, is more like," noone needs/cares to know what we do all the time! You put enough on FB, no need for a blog!" I know he has a great point, but...
Blog or no blog?
Re: Blogs?
If you want to blog, then blog. Do you really need your H's permission?
i blog for me, because I like it. I like the community that comes w/ blogging, if you choose to make it public.
If you do choose to blog or believe in free speech, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
I was thinking it would be a great way to look back as well. I read your blog all the time and think it is amazing the things your kids are seeing. (I never knew they restored pyramids)
No I do not need his 'permission'. But we live in the same house, share a child, and do everything together.
So, if I did blog, it would more than likely have all 3 of us in the post. We do most things together, so yes my H would be in the post as would our DD. We also have a lot of partys at our house, they would also be in the blog, which would include H and DD.
But if I did not have a child, I might not be so worried about it.
I do this already on FB...My H is known as "T"..LOL But everyone on my FB knows who that is....
Butting in.... I have a blog that I pretty much created when I was pregnant and I only send the link to family. However recently I got an email from a guy who I went to college with and he said he loved my blog and it was nice to see pictures of the baby and our new house. I was totally floored as I had no idea it was out there even though I thought it was private. When I type in my name nothing comes up but when you do a search with my email it comes up with all the posts.
Does anyone know if there is a way I can do a blog that would not be searchable on the internet and private?
I currently use blogspot.
I love blogging. I never thought I would stick with it, and I mostly started it as therapy and a way to get out everything that was going on after Kennedy was born. I never thought anyone would "really" read it. But now, I have 114 followes, and I've actually gotten emails from other moms who are going through what we did. I've also had people tell me that Kennedy and our story has changed their perception of Down syndrome. One mom even made the decision not to terminate her pregnancy, after reading my blog. That's when it hit me that I'm actually making a difference and educating people. Sometimes I worry that I have a lot of info out there for the world to see, but I try not to put anything TOO private.
I'm pretty sure that you can mark it private so only those that you send the link to can get it. Or maybe you put their email addresses in or something? I know it's possible, just not positive how. Since mine is also educational, obviously it's something I make public.
I also love blogging, and like CoP says, I do it mostly for me. I even turn my blog posts into books (through Blurb) at the end of each year, so that I have them preserved to look back on. Obviously I know nobody cares what we're up to as much as we do, but I love being able to have those memories written down, and it has helped us keep our families in the loop while we're living so far away.
I started out having my blog "public," but set so that Google wouldn't crawl it, so I never got random hits. I only recently undid that and now people can google various things and find me. I do try to be careful to keep our last name off the blog as much as possible because I personally don't want to be Google-able (but I don't care if, say, someone wants to learn how to get SNL tickets and finds by blog by searching for that). I do internet research on people for my job so I try to remain vigilant about my own online presence.
You can definitely keep it fully private as well, and require people to have a password or something to even access it.
Ellie ~ 3.29.12
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