Blogs and Facebook

After reading the articles on blogging and hearing Ms. Patton's story about how one of her students was tracked down by her father, whom she did not want to have contact with. Just because Ms. Patton had put her name on the internet for a little while, that student was tracked down by her father, and it was a big pain in the bum for Ms. Patton to take her name off the net. It made me think about exposing myself on the internet. Even though I don't have blogs (except for this one), but I believe Facebook is the same thing. Like most people my age, I have a Facebook page. Even though it is not a blog where I write paragraphs about my days and my feelings, but there are countless applications in Facebook that allows the users to do the same thing. One of them is Notes, where I can write whatever I feel like writing, just like a blog. I don't use that application, in fact, I don't put much information about myself on my Facebook page. The worst information that someone with a bad intention can use against me is probably my photos. But even that, I'm pretty sure that there aren't pictures of me on Facebook that can do much harm to me. So in the end, I think blogs or Facebook or whatever the site may be, it all just depends on what we're willing to put out there for people to know about ourselves. And if anything bad happens because of the information we post on the net, then we'll just have to take the consequences ourselves and learn from them.