My oh my...

SO.  I googled the name of our blog and all of the pictures on it readily show up under the Google Images tab.  It TOTALLY freaked. me. out. to see Thumper's face so publicly there.  Anyone can see them, copy them, post them elsewhere, download them, whatever, without my knowing.  I don't know what made me think that because I checked a few boxes that seem to promise a bit of privacy somehow no one could ever find our page unless I wanted them to.  Clearly that is not the case.  Now, someone has to know the name of our blog in order to google it and find all of our photos and posts...and if they had the name of it you would think they would just visit the blog rather than look at our photos in Google images.  But (come with me down my rabbit hole), it seems totally plausible that someone who wanted information about me or my family could befriend someone in our circle, find out the name of our blog, google it, find our posts and our photos, recognize my son, learn about what we do and where we live, and convince Thumper's teachers or daycare some day that they were asked by us to pick him up from school.  I'm sure you're thinking, wow, how very irrational!  Maybe I watch too many movies.  BUT, the internet freaks me out sometimes and it just is what it is.  I personally know how easy it is to put pieces of information together from various websites and build a profile of someone.  Doesn't it make sense to make the crazies work a little harder if they want to do something bad to our family?  I think it does.

The point is that in the middle of this mini episode, I tried to password protect our blog...and inadvertently sent an e-mail to all of you that requested you sign in with your Google username and password.  Then I realized that's not what I wanted to do...so I removed the password requirement (or so I think).  You should be able to view the blog without any password.

Given that we have decided the blog will remain entirely public (i.e. not password protected), I have taken down all of the pictures of Thumper.  We will continue to share pictures with you via Kodak (soon to be Shutterfly--e-mail me if you don't get these e-mails and want to be included) and will try to think of a way to share videos with you as well.

I'm sorry for all of the confusion!

Freaked Out by Modern Technology--Legs