Here is a story I got from a blog friend's private blog. It definitely is making me consider making my blog private...
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I feel the need to share this with all my blogging pals, especially those of you with public blogs. Yikes!
So today I was on the phone with my sister and she told me something that really creeped me out. She recently posted pictures of my nephew’s baptism on her blog. A couple days later she received a really disturbing comment from a woman who wrote that someone had been pretending to be her and my brother-in-law for several months and to email for more information.
Well, after emailing this woman, my sister found out that some random guy has been accessing dating sites, pretending to be my brother-in-law. He took a lot of pictures of my nephews from my sister’s blog and sent them to these women claiming they were his sons.
It gets worse… my sister hasn’t updated her blog in a while, so recently this guy started saying that my sister was killed and that he was now a poor widower with three boys. So twisted, just thinking about it makes me sick.
The whole thing was revealed when my sister posted about my nephew’s baptism and the women realized she was still alive.
Anyways, I’ve heard several creepy blog-stalking stories, but none have hit this close to home. It makes me worried about my nephews and that much more protective of my girls. Before this I was on the fence when it came to private blogs, now I’m all about 'em.
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Needless to say, I am might go private soon. Have any of you heard any other creepy stories like this?
Oh my !! I don't blame you and now I guess I'd better be thinking about it too! Maybe all of us better! That is scary and when I go private will you help me??
ReplyDeleteI just went private and am feeling so much more secure. I did, however, take my sister-in-law's advice to make a "fake" blog. So when I update my private blog, I post the link on that fake blog and then registered users can click on it and go to my real blog (but ONLY registered users, since the real on is private). That way, I'm private, but my info still shows up on people's blog lists. Good luck with your decision!
ReplyDeleteI've actually been thinking about going private myself. Do you remember Audrey? Well, someone was downloading pics of her little girls off of her sister's blog. Which is pretty scary, who knows what they're doing with the pics.
ReplyDeletewow! I just may do the same... especially since our little one will be joining us...
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking about it a lot. I think your friend, Tina, has a great idea. I am going to do that.
ReplyDeleteI like being private because I wanted to know who will be looking at pictures of my little guy. I didn't want "blog surfers" on there. This way I can invite whoever I want to view my blog & everyone else is denied access.
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