I was doing my daily rounds in the blogging world and noticed that there’s a proliferation of blogs that are now including pictures of their children at various ages. This is cool, it’s nice for a parent to be proud of their children, but in a world full of cyber criminals this seems to be odd for me. Why would anyone put their child’s picture on the internet then try to gain traffic to their blog? Why would people solicit more traffic for their kids pictures?

What happens when a cyber criminal who’s a lot smarter than the average joe mom & dad get a hold of that picture and use it for ungodly activities? What happens when they start tracking the ip address of the blog, or worse off track you down because you’re an idiot and put your whole life online? They find you, they get you, and now they are looking at your children because you were dumb enough to post pictures of your cute little kid online and solicited traffic from several “traffic generating” websites.

I’m all for online worlds and I’m all for loving your children and showing them off to your FAMILY! However, when you put kids for strangers to not only look at, but encourage more and more hits to your blog, I feel that you maybe crossing the line into something else that you don’t want.

In a world where we are all seeking some sort of public privacy, we open ourselves up sometimes to a world of pain waiting at our door steps by soliciting people to look into our private lives.

Am I a hypocrite?

No.

I draw the lines between fiction and reality on my blogs. While I do offer a lot under the guise of Sir Jorge and Jorge Orduna, I leave a whole lot out of the realms of your eyes, because I don’t want everyone in the online world knowing Jorge Orduna and all the things that I hold personally and private. So what I do in order to combat that, is to write in a certain way that is personable but not too personal. There are certain things about myself that I keep in a private place because I personally do not want it out online and for the world to see and convict me of or judge me for. That maintains a sense of privacy with my future children and my nieces & nephews, there are certain lines that I won’t cross.

If I do feature more “private” images, I will not solicit them on traffic engines and ask strangers to come see them.

That is just one of my annoyances this weekend while surfing blogs and trying to generate real traffic in my experiment.

Maybe I am just misinformed, maybe I’m wrong in thinking this way, but come on..think about it.

We see horror stories about pedophiles in the news, there’s movies made about this stuff, and yet a lot of parents post intimate pictures of their children in bathing suits, or just random private images of their children on the net…a net where triple x prevails and spam is king.

I don’t like that.

I don’t believe people want privacy any more. At least not in the real way or meaning of the word. People want to live in closets in the world, and then online be monsters and open and public.

I am sorry if this isn’t what everyone wants from me. But at my most intimate, I am still very private. Which is a dichotomy that I hold high.

What do you hold high?