Privacy issues

When I first started blogging, I never had any intentions of keeping anything, within reason, private. I wanted to share every aspect of my life including my family, which is my heart and soul. So, I did what any parent blogger would do, and started writing posts about my son and his milestones and posting cute lil pictures of him and what not. Basically I incorporated him in almost every aspect of my blog. Without getting too much into detail, I think you get it.

Then, my blog started evolving and I didn't want to be a "mommy blogger", so I continued to post some pictures here and there, but he was still the center of my Friday posts. I mean, I am a stay-at-home mom and all. I can't really just cut my son out of the picture, nor would I want to.

And then I read an article about adding the "no pin" HTML to your pictures and it got me thinking about every picture I had posted. So I decided to hit the "pin it" button and see exactly what people could pin.

Quite simply,  I. was. speechless.

I generally remove the link button to all my personal pictures,  so it's harder for people to steal them, but damn... my son's face was everywhere! I even Googled my blog, and the same thing happened. So I started going back to every post, that had my son in it, and added the html code to the picture.

I waited a week for Google to catch up, since the "no pin" code worked immediately for the "pin it" button, and of course, a few stragglers have gotten through. And don't even get me started on Bing... (every time I take down one, they seem to replace it with another)

Now, I know some bloggers are fine with having their child's face plastered all over the internet, hell, some even intentionally set up blogs and devote them to their child; but I'm not ok with this. I have a choice in the matter, but my son doesn't. Sure, Instagram is way different (unless you use statigram), but your child's face is still out there.

I don't know. I guess it's just me.

Anyways...

I have been going through the past six months of blog posts and deleting any insignificant individual pictures of my son. From now on, the only pictures that anyone will see, are the pictures on Instagram, or if I post pictures on here of him, either me or my husband will be in the pictures with him. Basically, my son will not be the only one in the picture.

I swear if my child's picture ends up on a porn site, I am going to cut someone. Consider yourself warned.

That also brings me to another thing:

Most of you have probably noticed a change in my Instagram name. I apologize for this. If you are wondering where I went, my Instagram name is now: tl_tinywishes. It just works with the brand. :)

Yeah, so that's it for now.