Comments on: Blogging your baby

As online parenting journals gain in popularity, some wonder where to draw the "too much information" line.

[two4motion]

VOX

Very interesting article. My guess is that most parents would be better off using a site like VOX for their blogs because you can set privacy levels on your posts to be viewable by public, family, friends, or family and friends. You can even mix it up within the same post, which means you could have the text public, but the pictures private.

[i_made_this]

blog schmog

"at what point does baring your soul become a violation of your child's privacy?" This sort of thinking misses the point. If you look at MySpace, you'll see most all of the kids are internet-savvy and intuitive enough to keep their blogs and pics absolutely private. If only their idiot parents were as internet-savvy and smart. First, anything posted to most of the large blog sites is "owned" by the sites in the sense that anything (even on so-called "private" blogs) posted on their servers can be reproduced for commercial gain by the host company - not the blogger. Second, the major security risk people put themselves and their family and friends at by writing about their most intimate personal lives and showing close-up pics of them and their loved ones online is frightening. These are just not good ideas - kids know it - now their parents should learn it.

[johnxtampa]

At least she's not OUR mom...

Can you imagine that self-righteous self-aggrandizing **can't_be_ typed_here** being your mom?

I just decided against ever buying a Scholastic product again. Hope she puts this in her blog.

[cartablst]

*eyeroll*

Her blog is a marketing tool; of course it's going to be "look at me".