When I first created my Facebook account it never even crossed my mind who would see my pictures. Even when I started this blog I didn’t even double think it for a second. I thought only my friends and family will stumble upon this blog because I told them about it. Couldn’t of been more wrong. Everyday I check my blog stats and people from all over read it, from states I’ve never been to and towns I’ve never heard of…even different countries. I am by no means a “popular blogger”. I am what I like to refer to as a “nobody blogger”. But still day after day people come here to read our blog. Which, of course, got me thinking..how did they find our blog?
Since finding out I was pregnant again I’ve googled baby name after baby name and every time thousands and thousands of pictures pop up of babies and children. Pictures from myspace, Facebook, twitter, personal blogs, photography blogs, etc. Pictures of our children are all over the internet! And sometimes on sites that we don’t even know about. Thankfully I have never found a picture of Kamryn where it didn’t belong but if you google “Kamryn”, there she is, linked up to my blog of course! So then I started thinking about all the people who have posted pictures of Kamryn on their personal Facebook pages (of course only because they love Kam)…friends, immediate family, extended family, close family friends and on and on… To be honest this scares the crap out of me! Mike and I know who our Facebook friends are but we have no idea who my parents friends are, who Mike’s parents friends are, who my friends friends are, extended families friends are. There are hundreds, potentially thousands, of people who we don’t know looking at pictures of our daughter. To say this makes me feel uneasy is an understatement. Now I know what your probably thinking…”My friends would never use Kamryn’s pictures as their own.” But lets be honest, I’m sure you have plenty of acquaintances on your page who you really don’t know all that well. It may sound crazy but trust me when I say this, this happens every.single.day. All it takes is a click of your picture that you forgot to make private and my baby girl is out there for the world to see on God knows what website.
Mike and I have talked this over and decided that he and I (when I get back on Facebook) are going to cut down our Facebook friends list quite a bit. There are people I am “friends with” that I haven’t talked to since high school. People who don’t comment on my photos, who don’t write on my wall and there’s no need to have them looking at pictures of me and my family and seeing what we are up to. Mike and I will do anything in our power to protect Kamryn because there are some crazy people out there. Now that I am a mother (of almost 2) the internet scares the crap out of me. Mike and I want to ask all of you to please please not post any pictures of Kamryn on your page unless you check with us first. And if we approve please make sure your photo’s are completely private!! If you don’t know how to do this ask Mike or I and we will walk you trough it. We live in a different world then when we were growing up. This world is scary and a world that is so public in so many ways. I have decided to watermark my pictures on the blog from now on so no one can copy our pictures on here. This may sound extremely over protective but again we will do whatever it takes, drastic or not to make sure the pictures we post of Kamryn are our pictures and our pictures only!
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