Thinking out loud….

I have been toying with the idea of making my blog private. I have been reading more and more about people being nervous about sharing so many details of their lives with the internet. A friend of mine works for the Federal Public Defenders office and he tells me all kinds of scary stories about crazies using pictures of kids that they get off the internet. Yesterday my brother had an issue where someone hacked into his email and sent a message to the CEO of his company about some things in his private life he didn’t want to share with his employer. I find myself censoring what I write, so that I don’t offend anyone. It all just got me thinking a bit more.

I started looking into plug-ins to make my entries private. People could still see my blog, but I would have to give them permission to read my posts. That way I would know who was reading my blog. I am not trying to block any of my current readers, I would just like to know who you are. I keep looking at my stats and I see that I get between 30-60 hits a day. Only a handful of people ever comment, so that leaves me wondering who all the hits are coming from.

I found 2 plug-ins that will do this for me:

Angusman

Hidepost-plugin

If anyone has any experience with either of them, can you let me know what you think of them?

I keep thinking about the whole blog thing and why I started it in the first place. I originally started it as a journal for myself. I planned on having it printed out some day to share with my kids. Then I started thinking it would be fun to share it with my friends and family who live far away. It is a great way to keep up to date on far away loved ones lives. I love reading Hobo Mama, since we hardly ever get to see Scott’s older brother. It has also been fun to read Mike & Maren’s blog–even though they live in the same state as us, we hardly ever see them.

I love reading about friends and family. But, I don’t want to get caught up in the whole popularity thing that goes along with the blog scene. I find myself looking at my blog stats and trying to figure out how to get more readers. I keep wishing that more people would comment, but then I think about it and wonder why? Sometimes I feel like I am back in high school again and I am wanting to be one of the “popular kids” That was never my intention when I started my blog. I just wanted a place where I could write about my days and my life right now. I just wanted a place where all these memories from being a mom to little kids would be remembered.

I am still not sure what I want to do, and I don’t really have a solution yet. Right now, I am just thinking out loud…..