Reports by Consumers

Consumers might want to consider what personal information they post on their blogs, as reported here.

Between bites of pizza, Dale told us that he had gotten "stuck" on our blog for quite some time Tuesday afternoon. Sure enough, he seemed pretty up to date on all of the ins and outs of our lives, and was even citing details from some of our archived posts. (He must really have gotten stuck.) At some point the conversation turned away from the specifics of certain blog entries and veered toward a somewhat philosophical (and, at times, nonsensical) discussion about the purpose of our blog. Dale asked why we write the blog, and commented, I can't believe you tell the world so much about yourselves...I mean, aren't you worried about telling people so much? As with many things Dale says, I wasn't sure, even by the end of the night, how many meanings were buried in this comment. Did he mean aren't we worried about the emotional vulnerability of disclosing details about such things as the fodder of our occasional marital speedbumps to friends and strangers? Or did he mean the more simple concern of telling so many people so many things about us, leaving us vulnerable to such things as identity theft? Or is there yet some other concern I've not considered?

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