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Mission (incognito) Impossible
Everyone has probably thought, at one point or another, “I wonder who has me in the background of their Holiday photos?” Looking stunning in a sleek MiracleSuit Swim suit. (You know, the one you didn’t have to bust your ass to get into?) Or maybe you were stealing the show with your good friend Jagermeister…(making a jack out of said ass) Or maybe, just maybe, you were simply existing….
Alternatively, I’m sure you have found yourself thinking, “I hope I don’t run into anyone I know here…” You might be a Puritan who just wanted to check out the mosh pit at the local underground rave, or an adamant atheist blowing off Sunday brunch with your Godless Groupies to check out the local Catholic Church, or maybe, just maybe you’re a well known preschool teacher shopping for “toys” and not the kind the kids are begging for…
Nowadays the odds of being incognito are very slim. People are armed to the teeth with technology. Tiny cameras, digital cameras, cell phones that can take a photo or video and send it to the internet before your brain has recovered from the flash! Having a right to privacy is like a fairy tale. One day, you’ll tell your grandchildren, “Once upon a time you couldn’t Google your own name and find your self splayed across the world wide web. You lived happily ever after and no one knew.”
Every time I turn around I see myself! On Facebook, Myspace, places I’ve posted myself or someone else has posted me. People add you to list and website, they add your email addy to data bases to earn mysterious points that they never redeem for anything. You may or may not know you are being photographed (or *gasp* video taped) and you may or may not know where these end up.
I recently came across videos of my daughter, which I did not authorize, posted on a public website. As you know my daughter has bipolar disorder. If she is not properly supervised and immediately engaged when having a meltdown someone could potentially get hurt. This teacher purposely and spitefully allowed LeBella to get out of hand and video taped it! She went on to post these videos online!
Luckily I was able to contact this site and after going through a brief process to verify my identity, the videos were removed. This process may not be so easy every time and that worries me.
It’s not my place to say “Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want spread across the internet.” So, we’ll save that PSA for another day. I just have one question…
Where in the world (wide web) are you?
*A note from, well me, duh.
Have you ever Googled your own name? You would be surprised at what comes up, especially if you network like a mofo. Everything from social network profiles, to tweets, to blog post and more! I challenge you to go (I’ll wait) Google yourself than come back here and tell me one thing you found. Go now! Shoo!
Posted with love by Mommylebron
Blogging 4 Boobies
For the next 18 days, I am participating in a HUGE Breast Cancer Blogging Event! Hundreds of blogs around the globe are encouraging our readers to take a moment out of your day and donate just $10 to Beckie Black, a Breast Cancer 3 Day Walker, Ambassador and Team Captain, and daughter of a recent breast cancer survivor.
Beckie is a fellow blogger based out of Phoenix. She is the Team Captain of the “Ta-Ta Sisterhood”.
The hope is that 300 blogs will participate. Be sure to check out Beckie’s team blog for more information at www.ta-ta-sisterhood.blogspot.com. Once you make a donation, or re-post this on your blog, contact Beckie and she’ll add a link to your blog on her team blog! Share the love!
If just ONE of the readers from each of the 300 blogs takes a moment and donates $10, that will raise over $3,000.00 in the fight against Breast Cancer. Imagine if each blog writer or more than one blog reader also donates $10 to the fight against breast cancer… we could raise $6,000.00 or MORE! Wow!
So help us out. Let’s make this a tremendous success. Head on over to Beckie’s fund raising page (it’s all 100% tax deductible!) at http://www.the3day.org/goto/beckie.black and send her some donation love! Be sure to leave a comment on her blog (www.ta-ta-sisterhood.blogspot.com) or send her an email (beckie@pink-black.com) so she can add a link to your blog on her blog!
Totals will be posted on the team’s blog throughout the 18 days to see what an impact we were all able to make! As they say in the 3-Day world… “because everyone deserves a lifetime!”
Thank you for helping me make Beckie’s “Blogging 4 Boobies” event a success!
Scrap Happy Sunday
I figured if I promised ya’ll I’d show you my scrap booking progress every week, it would motivate me to actually do it! So, I just started a family album for our 2007 pictures (don’t judge me).
