Lately I've been wondering if I've got too much out there in cyberspace. I post a lot of FB updates and I write a lot of personal stuff on this blog. I talk about my kids and what we are doing. I give details on personality traits and schools they attend. I try to be careful and I know that my blog can't be accessed without the actual link but that is also on my FB page. So, I am giving 160 people access to my life. Of those 160 people there are many that I don't really know. I knew them in high school, some only barely in high school. I can monitor my blog a bit and I know a lot of people aren't looking at it although I do wonder who is looking when I see there was someone who is not local.
I also feel a little strange even with people I do know. I feel like I put a lot more out there than a lot of people so everyone (who wants to) is getting a play by play of my life. You don't really think of that when you put a new status on FB but many updates during the day turn into dozens in a month and hundreds in a year and that can give someone a lot of info into who you are.
I'm not terribly worried someone is going to use this info in some awful way but when I think about how people are able to get right into my brain (who knows why they would even want...I don't want to most of the time) it's a bit strange.
I try not to put my kids' names on FB (I only put their first initial) but it wouldn't take a brain surgeon to figure it out. We are living in a cyber world and they will have their own FB accounts sooner than I would like to think but it's just a bit concerning that we are all so vulnerable and whatever we put out there is out there for so many to see.
I wonder if I am doing something detrimental to myself. People can sit back and read my blog and place judgement on what happens to be my thoughts at that given moment when I wrote it. It's just such an instant world. Something happens...I blog about it or put something on FB and the whole world (well, actually only 160 people) can see it. Our kids are growing up in a kind of world where everything is instant and everything is public. It's scary, we have our work cut out for us.
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you probably already know this but you can limit who sees what facebook posts on each individual post. So you can create "friend Lists" that you use and make sure that it is people you have contact with that see kid posts etc. Also you can limit to just friends on everything (not friends of friends) this insures you are only sharing with your 160 not your 160 and their 500.
Again you already may know all this but just thought I would put it out there :)
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