iguanamountain blog

ARE YOU A PERMANENT RECORD?

Blog City Prompt: How do you determine what you want to share from your life in your blog? I've noticed more and more lately outside of WDC, that more and more blogs are showing their families, their homes. Should we be concerned about how much we put out there? What are the risks?

I guess, slowly over time and many, many blog posts, little bits of personal history become part of the permanent record. If you've ever seen the extremely long list of Red Flag Words that can trigger someone out there to focus in on you or one of your followers or family...it's not nice or comfortable. But from the list of words, there is nothing you can talk about, no matter how innocent, that is not on the list somewhere. Paranoia to the extreme!

Edward Snowden has done his best to alert the world that nothing is private any longer. There are agencies looking for enemies, or friends of possible enemies, or families of friends of possibles, or schools, or specific classes, or professors, or...? There is no end to what is possible so they feel they must watch everything.          What are the risks? Your decision.

So I say, if you have a secret, never put it in writing, never tell anyone. Remember that behavior that feels OK when you're nineteen may be used against you when you are forty. And somewhere out there, a file of ALL your emails is being compiled and archived. They are very interested in your DNA as well.

See what I've written here has dozens of red flag words. Do you see how they'd like to intimidate you into writing nothing but cute stories about fluffy bunnies that have no sex?

I say, let the rabbits run! >>>iggy

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