Pondering
If you can be fired for what you post on the internet ...
If schools can institute Privacy Policies preventing photos taken at school of other children being posted on your personal website ...
If internet conversations and email can be used in a court of law for or against you ...
Can child protective services use an online journal to question the welfare of a child?
How much of what we read is purely for comedic effect?
How much of what we read is the truth?
Do you believe everything you read?
Do you take things said as tongue-in-cheek?
Do you take it with a grain of salt and move on?
I really do wonder sometimes ....
I absolutely take everything with a grain of salt. I know at least for my own writing, I try to be humorous -at times to a fault. Blogging is also a place for most of us to vent, so I sure hope no state agencies are keeping an eye on us.
BUT- I have read a post or two and wondered about the safety of the household involved. We're in a new a growing world out here. Interesting....
I wouldn't think the diarist could be held at fault by Children's Protective. That would be like testifying against yourself, in advance of a trial. It could, though, engender an investigation. I dunno. But, like Momma K says, you gotta do the old cum grano salis bit. This would be a terrible place if people believed what Ol' Hoss writes, let me tell you. On the other hand, I can believe everything Angie writes and be very happy.
Yes.
I first started reading on-line journals about a year or so ago. I remember getting sort of hooked into a particular journal, and then getting worried about the journaler because it seemed like a lot of her posts involved heavy drinking and getting falling down drunk. She had a young daughter, and she was trying to get pregnant. Then I noticed that a lot of blogs featured drunken escapades. I finally decided that some of it was probably exxagerated for effect, and that even if all these people did have drinking problems, there wasn't a whole lot I could do about it.
I plan to be careful about what I post about my job, because I work for a large, visible school system. And I would never use one of my student's photos because I am pretty sure I could get fired for that. (I wish I could put their pictures up! They are SO cute!)
Has any of this stuff been litigated yet?
Food for thought. I do take most everything with a grain of salt, although some are more believable than others. I don't exaggerate for effect; however, occasionally my rememberer gets tangled in the details (like ages and years).
I only altered my content for my job. Everything else was the truth - as I know it.
Dooce was fired from her job because of her blog.
She is quite famous for that.
I'm a grain of salt gal.
(Actually I'm really an overweight laid-off trucker named Jed and my only family is a slutty ex-wife named Tonya and a dog with a bowel problem I never bothered naming.)
As pointed out, yeah, you can get fired for your posts...but if history is any indicator, you might get famous for getting fired because of your website. Who knows?
I do exagerate sometimes, but when I do, you KNOW it! LOL! It's always in some comedic way. Otherwise, it's just my boring life.
I've often wondered about pix of other people, tho. I don't name folks unless I have permission and they read my blog anyway.
And yeah, I have often wondered about a few blogs I've read. Most of it I do take with the salt shaker in hand, but some are too bizarre not to make you wonder!
Good ponderin's! :)