I have just deleted my alternate blog. I had no choice. It seems some person sent a chain e-mail out to well over 100 people, with my blog address. In less than 6 hours, I went from my usual 10 or 15 visitors, to well over 100. And every last one of them was from some Yahoo mail address. I don't like that. Mainly because I could say things on that blog, I could not say elsewhere..oh, it had light stuff too, just like on here--DT and Dr Who captions, jokes, etc...but really--I feel...dirty, now, being passed around the web like some cheap hooker in a sailor's bar. No idea what attracted them, but..it's gone now. Forever.
Made me sort of sad to have to do that...I mean, sure, loads of people visit this website--but there's big difference between people casually, or deliberately seeking out your blog--and some completely unknown person--without consulting you, just randomly passing your blog address out via e-mail, for whatever reason, to hundreds of people.
I'm sure some of you are saying, "What's the big deal? What's she whinging about now?" Well, it's a fine line, I admit, but to me, it is a line. It a tiny, semi-invasion of my privacy. I'm glad if this sort of thing wouldn't bother you, really I am. And it's hard for me to explain, why it bothers me at all---but, bottom line is, it DOES bother me a little. So, no choice but to delete and begin again.
I will set up a new blog, but will ONLY give the address to those who request it, and will not be putting it on any search engines, if I can help it. And, it will NOT be on blogger!
sweetladyjane
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If you're going to blog you're going to be on the net. Why do you care who finds it? If you are using a fake id they wont know you anyway. Blogger is no less private than any other site. It publishes to the web and anyone doing a random search for a topic can find it. If you want complete privacy you will have to lock your posts. You can do that on blogger.