If you don't want the public to see what you write in your blog
You need to password protect it or, at the very least, host it on a service that lets you put "noindex" tags on it so search engines and the rabble who use them don't find it.
At the request of a blogger, I've taken down a post here linking to her account of an incident involving her son.
Yeah, I could be hard hearted and say something like "hey, I wasn't the one to post something on Blogspot where any idiot could see it," but it's not like she sought publicity for the post or her blog, not everybody is fully aware of such things and the world's not going to end if we can't discuss an incident of stupid parenting (not by her, mind you).
But just as a reminder: If you blog about personal stuff without locking your entries, don't be surprised if somebody you don't expect will find them - and maybe even link to them and start talking about them.
As for what I was doing snooping around her blog, well, at some point, she must have written something about Boston or the T or West Roxbury or some other term I periodically type into Technorati just to see if there are any new bloggers out there and I followed a link to whatever it is she wrote about, saw she was from Boston and put her feed in my RSS aggregator, which is where I find a lot of the stuff I link to here.
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Ding Reportage
I assume this was the drama queen about her kid with the red mark on the leg from a pellet gun. I had meant to comment and the mere absence of evidence won't stop me.
Having been a boy, raised one to manhood and well on the way to doing the same with two others, I chuckled at that post. No emotionally stable parent wants to know some teen hurt their young kid, but the breathing into a paper bag and such was over the top. Apparently hubby was adult enough to speak with the mom of the offending teen and prevent the recurrence.
If only raising kids was a linear and problem free as she seemed to want it. On gender developmental stereotypes alone, there's plenty to fear. Boys tend to like fire (particularly fire), weapons and fighting. Girls tend to play cruel social games and shoplift. Of course, not all do bad things, or bad enough to get in real trouble, but lots of school and police stats show a real basis for these stereotypes. It's a scary world, or can be.
This mom was literally breathless and physically ill thinking about what could have happened, but didn't. If something real and nasty comes down at home, in school or elsewhere, I guess they'll have to sedate her or haul her away.
My middle son is about the head off to college in Rochester, New York. A big part of me wants him at a Massachusetts college, but he's doing what I and my sister and so many did — heading way out of state to become his own person. Even having done this with one, I have a real sense of loss of control. I can't protect him seven hours drive away. The mere fact that he could be in a car wreck or get stabbed right here in JP is beside the point...or is it?
You beat me to it
We had lots of interesting baby sitting experiences long ago....
All of our children are in college -- but still underfoot. My wife was worried (once upon a time) about the prospects of them going away -- but now....
"Noindex" is unreliable
People who really don't want their posts seen by the public shouldn't rely on "noindex." That's a voluntary protocol, and won't help at all if someone posts a link to their unindexed post. They should use a service with a restricted visibility option, such as LiveJournal's "friends only" option.
Yeah, you're right
It would at least keep the posts out of Google and Technorati, but the only real answer is a password.
Peeping Tom!
A likely story, you peeping Tom. Next you'll be telling people it's their fault you can see their tits when they stand naked in front of their windows.
Lack of Common Sense
I seriously do not understand people who post things ON THE FRIGGIN' INTERNET and then become discombobulated when people find their blogs and read their blogs. Good grief. This is not rocket science.
If I don't want some random person to know something about me, I just don't write it in my blog. The things I do write in my blog are the things I do not CARE if absolutely anyone else finds or reads. So simple, yet so effective.
Common sense: Such a shame it's not more common.
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Jen Stewart
It's a mystery
Do people not realize that the Internet is a "public place"?