I was debating about whether or not to explain the reason that I had to make my blog private. It's almost too painful to tell. But some of you asked, and I feel compelled to share if only to raise more awareness about this issue...
Yesterday I was playing around with some of the different features of my blog that I never explored before. I noticed that you can view your "stats" and see the audience and traffic sources. I noticed a few things that appeared to be odd. For one, the "search keywords" included phrases like "girls in underwear". That immediately caught my attention. Then, I looked at the "referring sites" and saw that most of them were google image searches. I started to click on them because it will actually take you to the link where the viewers clicked before arriving at the blogpage. I was absolutely horrified to see that all of the views were of one particular picture of Lyla wearing nothing but her underwear when she was about 18 months old (she had just recently been potty trained and we were proudly showing off her new big girl undies). There were many views of that particular picture from viewers all over the world. I felt angry, shocked, and disgusted all at the same time. I was so ashamed that I carelessly left my blog open to the world and naively posted that picture of her. Some of you may think I am a bad mother for not being more careful in the first place, but I wanted to share this in case anyone else, like me, did not even have a glimmer of a thought in their mind that something like this might happen. It does. We live in a dark and twisted world full of people who will look at a picture of something so innocent, beautiful, and pure and turn it into something perverted. Please join me in praying for these sick people and pray for the protection of my sweet children. "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." -Ephesians 6:11-12
1 comment:
You are the BEST mother ever and your actions prove it! It makes me sick also that people are so so sick but what a blessing that you found out and took action plus brought it to other peoples attention! Your awesome and you take great care of my grand kids and I love you!
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