Missing Half of Mena's Life
I couldn't agree more with Mena's last post on VOX (of course, if you aren't her "friend" you won't be able to actually read that post -- woops). Control over who sees what is not just a great feature, it is absolutely crucial if I am going to blog about my kids. I am not going to post pictures and video of my kids without control over who gets to see them. Now I can post like crazy and the only fear will be that my friends and family get sick of hearing about them. What else is new.
Here are my posting stats -- screen shots of my VOX logged in and logged out. In June and July, I had 98 posts that were viewable by friends and family, of which only 38 were viewable by the public.
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You have kids?
Yeah. What he said.
I'm all over the internet, but I never post any media of my kids that isn't protected.
Yay Vox! :)
one bug is that your photo's RSS feed shows the kid's pictures when i read them in bloglines. I wonder if it's because your photos aren't categorized to friends & family?
You are probably getting the photos I send from my phone. Up until the latest release (yesterday), there was no way to set a preference for making posts automatically for friends or family. Now you can set a preference and any photo I send from my phone will automatically be for "friends and family" unless I later specify otherwise. So the photos in the RSS feed should stop as of yesterday (actually, as of today, because I need to set up the preference right now).
Ok, now my posts are for "friends and family" by default. It is super simple to set up. Just go to your profile and there's a link at the bottom to set up posting preferences (plus, you can now cross post between TypePad and VOX. So cool.
Maybe I'm just a blogging noob, or maybe I have a blind spot, but I don't see the problem. Are you saying you put *no mention* of your kids anywhere on the internet? Or just particularly intimate or mundane/only-a-grandparent-would-want-to-read stuff?
I think it sucks that in the last twenty years we've evolved into such a paranoid culture that we're afraid to let our thirteen-year-olds walk to school by themselves. Personally, I don't particularly want to live in a world like that.