Would you mind if your parents blogged about you?

    My initial response to this question was “obviously I would mind.” But then, I thought about it a little. I think that like most things, there are pros and cons to either side. I also don’t think they would write anything too personal or embarrassing about me. And plus, there’s also the question of how many people would even see the blog. So, I don’t think I would actually care too much.

    I actually had a habit of telling others about my family’s life myself. In a sense, I was blogging about my family too for some time. Most of the time, I would be complaining about them. Maybe I would complain about how they kept forgetting promises or how they kept trying to pry me off my computer to go and do some studying. I still complain about my family now, but not nearly to the same extent. Whenever someone asks me to buy a certain game or something, I always have to tell them that I can’t because my parents don’t let me spend my own money freely (and it isn’t just their own money that they handed to me). But, aside from that, I don’t really talk that much about my family these days. As someone who used to talk about my parents a good amount, I think it’s only fair that they should be able to talk about me.

    There’s also the fact that I doubt my family (or any family for that matter) would post too many negative stories. I doubt any family would want people to think badly of their children. I think that anyone who writes a family blog probably tries to either make it positive to make their family seem happy and inspirational. Or, they might contain a wealth of parenting tips and tricks that others can learn from. I certainly hope there aren’t any blogs that just talk trash about their children. Sure, there’s bound to be the occasional “wow my child does stupid things”, but that’s just to be expected.

    Also, there’s the fact that I might enjoy looking back on past moments. If they were to blog about me, they would surely blog about some things that I really enjoyed. And, when they blog about me, that stuff will stay on the internet for either a very long time or forever. I should easily be able to go back to the blog 50 years down the line or so and reminisce about all my childhood moments.

    So, sure, blogging about me might be an invasion of privacy. But, I think there are benefits to it too, such as being able to reminisce on these memories in the future. Sure, we could accomplish the same thing by just taking pictures or something. But, in a blog, I’d probably also get to see my family’s perspective on it, which is something that is not achievable just by an image. After taking all those things into consideration, I think I would be fine with my family blogging about me, as long as it stays as something that’s only shared between them and their friends.