I’m just weird that way!

I too have wondered about whether or not I was divulging too much info on me and my family. Should I post pictures? etc… I can’t imagine not posting pictures. I don’t know. Nicknames are good. I used to use A’s full name but then I changed it and edited all the posts containing her real name. Just in case.

I’ve been wanting to sign up for bloglines. I should totally do it.

I have certainly entertained the thought about taking more measures to guard my son’s identity, but my husband pointed out that the blog was created for our families to keep up to date on our lives.

For me personally, I don’t think that I could change my son’s name or not mention my husband’s name while writing. I am not gifted with creative writing talent so my ramblings would only be that much harder to interpret.

There is no doubt that the internet is a scary concept that has certainly been abused of late and in the past. It crosses my mind every now and then and I always come up with the excuse that I don’t have a huge following for my blog.

Perhaps I will download that StatCounter and see if that freaks me out enough to change my position of sitting on the fence.

I use my real name, no biggie. That is who I am and there are seriously a thousand other mommy bloggers out there named Stephanie.

My children and husband have all been reduced to intials.

I guess I worry so much because I am sort of overprotective like that. Every couple of months, I go through my blog and if there is a picture or some information that reveals too much, I change it.

As for bloglines…YeeeHAw!!!! Life is so much easier. I don’t feel bad if I miss something, because it tells me how many entries that I have to catch up on. By the way, some of those visitors might be me several times a day. Sometimes I only get two sentences read before a yungun yanks me away from the computer.

oh the lurkers- i want to call them all out- just to know who they are~

i like stat counter- i keep it invisible though- i think if you did have freaky people you could find them easier if they didn’t know they were being watched/counted- i have had one or 2 random comments- like aguy telling me i was hot and should be a super model - that freaked meout a little but i think the only peoples attention i really hold are other moms/ friends/family- who else could endure my rambling

fun blog btw- 1st time here

bloglines- love it. not only does it tell you who has updated, but you can mark a post to keep it new and know where you still need to comment.

sitemeter/statcounter- I use statcounter only because it was the only one I had heard of when I started my blog. I added sitemeter later, just to see if either had any benefits. They’re pretty well equal, but familiarity wins out and statcounter is what I check.