Sharing Yourself Online: Privacy while Blogging
I just wrote a new article about privacy while blogging, which is something everyone (especially kids and teens) should consider when blogging:
As blogging has become mainstream and students from middle-school on up through college and graduate school have taken …
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Pretty good article overall. But “private” blog. Get real.
If it’s online it cannot, by definition, be private. So, although it’s a nice concept, I’d like to know if any “private” blogs exist? Can you spell Google?
That’s absolutely not true. Trust me, millions of folks transact private business online every day (worth hundreds of millions of dollars), and it is kept private. So the ability to keep information and content private is readily available. Google and other search engines are stopped by one simple line in one simple file.
The issue is that most people who start blogging aren’t even aware it’s an option. You find about some random blogging service from a friend, you signup, and boom, before you know, you’ve written a few dozen entries before even thinking about such things…