Project Princesses Radio Dark

For months I have been seriously weighing the costs and benefits of wiping my girls off of the internet as much as possible.  Last week's breaking news about the government tapping into almost every facet of communication I use pushed me over the edge.  (I think Skype is still safe, but who knows.  I don't see any reason why it would escape monitoring.)

As a christian, last week's news was especially chilling.  Lightening quick America is becoming a Godless country.  I am not so naive to think that this sensoring program will only ever target "foreign nationals" or supposed terrorists.  This program will be used by any president and his administration (Democrat, Republican, or otherwise) to push down his enemies.  Power breeds this type of behavior.  Soon, holding fast to Christ will make you an enemy of 'justice,' 'liberty' and even 'freedom', and I think it's very possible that my children will be put in the crosshairs some day.

My girls have no control over what information about them that I put on the internet, for any person or hacker or government to see.  I deeply deeply regret that I posted their birth dates and full names, I wish I had been a little more 'paranoid' when I was putting those pictures up.

I am switching my old Facebook account off, and will be doing research on how to totally erase it over the next few weeks (tips welcome!).  I made a new one that won't have pictures of my girls or mention their names.  I know this sounds eccentric, but I've already seen sites where random information about me was compiled and it totally freaked me out, and that was years ago.

I know that the data that I have already put out there can never be totally erased.  I also know that Google owns Blogger and that all my of my current posts/data on Blogger is no more 'safe' from the general public than if I had a totally public/open blog.  For now, I am keeping this blog, and I am keeping it private.  I will continue to post about our family on here (more so now, I suppose).  I trust Facebook a whole lot less than I trust Google, whether that trust is misplaced or not.  In the future I may change that decision, but for now I feel a lot more at ease just changing Facebook.

If you have thought about this decision yourself, talk to me about it!  I haven't talked to anyone about this yet because I didn't want to sound like a crazy lunatic, but I am interested to see if others have thought about it!