Thursday, November 6, 2008

Thinking about going Private!

Tell me what you think?? Any Ideas?? I need the pro's and the con's! HELP!!!!!!!!

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Brooke, it's me, Jenn (Jensen) Davis. I found your blog through other's links and now that we're friends on Facebook! Anyway, me finding your blog could be a pro or con, depending on how you look at it- hopefully it's a good thing :) Anyway, I think I'm going to make my blog private this weekend so if you'd like to check mine out, send me your email address. I also talked about why I decided to go private so maybe that will help. Hope we can catch up. You look great and very happy. Cute family!

Julie said...

Hi Brooke! It's Julie...you found me through Facebook & I found you through Stacie's blog, so I hope me getting on is okay. You have such a cute family & I have enjoyed catching up a bit.

WheelersFamily said...

( ha ha ha ) I knew you wouldn't be too far behind.

Mikael and Danyelle said...

I think it is a good idea to keep your family okay. I need your e-mail address for mine, unless you don't want to look at mine anymore, :).

andyandmorganp said...

I've faught about it alot- the one thing that I wish- I wish people could request an invite. thats my only reserve.

Stubbart said...

I like being private, and knowing that nobody strange is looking on there. Plus, I don't have to watch what I say (like if my hubby's out of town, or something like that, since it's only people I know and trust that are allowed access). I do agree though, I wish that people could request invites. If they don't have your e-mail address, they have no way to ask to see it.

Des said...

I have been trying to figure it out as well. I have now disabled my right click so there is no copy and pasting from my blog. And I review comments now before posting them. I just think we are more aware of the fact that people are watching and we feel like we should do something. But when your at the park or something what stops some stranger from watching your kids? I love to blog stalk obviously, I think that is part of the fun here. And I think it is just as bad when someone puts their email in the open on your blog to be accepted. Just my thoughts sorry its so long I have alot of opinions :)

Abby Fowers said...

I KNOW! I'm totally having the same debate! I don't know. I like it available, but it kinda freaks me out sometimes too. If you decide to go private, I will email you my email so I can still check out your blog. It's hard to know what to do!

Amy said...

My thoughts on it is if you go private which I am actually considering as well is that when you invite people to read your blog that is all that can read it and that makes me feel a lot better. The only reason I haven't done it yet is because I have to get all the email addresses first of all friends and family and that seems like a pain.

Ashley said...

I am havig a hard time with the private thing. I haved loved being able to find friends. I have been really careul about not putting my last name and where exactly we live. But it's still very scary on the internet. As of right now, I am not going private. But we wil see I guess.

Destini said...

Well I just have to say that now that everyone is getting on Facebook there is a lot more info that can be gathered from strangers there. All you have to know is one person and then you have their email, personal photos, and even phone numbers. Just being aware is good and I am going follow what Jenn and Desiree have done so no one can copy and paste my photos or info. If you do go private please add me to your list!

Merrills said...

I don't want to go private, but I think I am going to. I don't think as many people will be able to look at it. I am mad that a few psychos have ruined it for everybody else.

Des said...

Alright here we go you need to go into your layout and select the Edit HTML tab. Scroll down through the box and towards the end it have a < then body and > so < body> inbetween the y and > you will add oncontextmenu='return false;' then it should look like this < body oncontextmenu='return false;'> if you have any questions let me know.

Call Destini for my email k thanks

Amy said...

I have decided not to go private. I followed the instructions by Desiree and made it so people can't cut and paste. I just don't think I want to make everyone have to log in to view my blog and then when you are private you have no idea when people update their blog so you have to login all the time to see if anything new has happened. Like Des said people can check out your kids at Lagoon, at the zoo, at the park. I don't have anything like where I live posted, so for now I am going to just keep things as are, but I did change my blog so it didn't have any friends last names posted.