Putting oneself out here on the Internets can be very risky. Identity theft notwithstanding, the greatest issue I've discovered is a sort of cyber-stalking, where people, for whatever reason, stalk a person by doing Internet searches and keeping tabs on the sites they find.
I've had a couple of incidents before with a few weird commenters and such, but nothing major..... until recently. Long story... suffice to say some things happened recently to make me nervous.
So I'm thinking about doing a password protect on my blog... If this blog suddenly becomes inaccessible, that's what's happened.
Now, before I do that, I plan to email the password information to those of you readers I know about and have email addys for. So if it IS inaccessible and you didn't received an email from me, email me and smack me (that includes those of you on Facebook). Otherwise, I will have a welcome page set up where you can request the password info in the comment section.
All you feed readers, I'm not sure how this will affect you. I'm hoping it won't... but you never know. Nor do I know how to get the password info to you. So if this is the last post you see in your reader for a while, you may want to drop by and double-check the privacy level, and then let me know (via the comments section on the welcome page) if you need a password...
Yikes, I'm sorry you're being stalked, Lu! Thanks so much for your last post. Panic attacks are the pits. Turning away from coping strategies that work but are not God's best for you is very brave and difficult. God bless you and you seek him, my friend!
Posted by: Marti | June 28, 2008 at 08:21 AM
I'd send you an e-mail, but I can't find your address in your profile at all. If you do pw protect your blog, I'd like to have it. You are one of my regular reads in my rss reader.
Posted by: matt | June 29, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Matt, Wow, thanks for that compliment! I'm honored.I will definitely give you a heads up on that if it happens.... right now I'm leaning towards not password protecting. But I'm waiting a few days to be sure.
And yeah, I don't have an email link on here at the moment. I just recently set up a specific email addy for this blog, so I may put it on here soon; it will at the very least be on the index blog if I password protect this one... But now that I have your email, it will be easy to notify you.
Marti -- Thank you, friend! You are AWESOME. :)
Posted by: Lu | June 29, 2008 at 11:11 PM
If you go to a password system - please let me know!!
'Lish
Posted by: Alisha | July 29, 2008 at 01:49 PM