Internet Safety

After I learned a little bit about internet safety, I decided to "teach" my husband about it. However, my husband works as a computer tech at an elementary school and therefore has learned through classes and experience about internet safety. So it ended up being more of an internet safety discussion, which was good. I didn't realize that my information was so easily accessible to anyone else. We googled each of our names and to our surprise, the first five hits on my name were direct links to actual information about me. We found that our blog is much easier to find than we thought. Honestly, I thought my blog was really only easy to find if someone followed the trail of blog lists of family and friends- not so. If you type my name into google it pulls up the most recent blog posts I've put up as well as the recent posts of friends and family. I realized from this that I need to be more careful about what I post on my blog. Before now, I've posted anything and everything we do, and the things I post would give a stranger a really good idea of our lives. Another thing we found on the google search was my name on another person's facebook list. This person is really not a respectable person, but just because I'm on her friend list, I came up. I deleted my facebook page after this. It wasn't a big deal or a rash move; it's just a page on the internet that gives more information about me than I want people to know, and it links me to people I don't want to be associated with. In the end, my husband and I decided many people just don't realize how accessible they really are, and we all would do well to use a little more caution in what information we put out.