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Eh. Don't really care, but we use our brains.

christinemoers — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:24:24 -0600

I don't just disclose my location, but all sorts of other painfully private things about me. So, even if someone took the time to hunt me down, they wouldn't want to stay long.

As far as the kids, I have actually taught them what to do if they have someone say, "I read your mom's blog! Are you [insert blog nickname]?" It has happened. My daughter was selling cinnamon rolls at the county fair two years ago, and someone recognized her from the blog. It's a part of our "stranger danger" talks in this house.

Now we own an RV park, and that, of course, is touted online and such. We just go with it.

Christine

www.welcometomybrain.net

Netbook will be great!

Rachel_at_Zoodles — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:05:40 -0600

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Jesus H. Tapdancin' Christ that map is awesome.

Maria Young — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:14:46 -0600

And I pretty much say I live in North Carolina, usually. Not because I think someone will hunt me down, but because I'm ashamed of where I live and I don't want to claim it. Haha.

- Maria Young

http://immoralmatriarch.com twitter.com/maria0305

gmail is awesome

Tessa_W — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:30:00 -0600

I had several email adresses. I forwarded them all to my gmail account and put labels on them as to which address they were originally sent to. If they were about products or something, I skimmed them then automatically archived them (don't need to read about a product I'm not using at the moment but it was always there to look at later). If they were personal notes (from family) I didn't email back during work hours. Pretty soon gramma stopped emailing me every day (not a bad thing lol!). If they were from clients I emailed back once every day (usually in the morning).

I'm a facebook-a-holic. But I don't get any emails from facebook. It's personaly stuff that I look at once a day and there's that wonderful little "notification" area in the bottom corner that you can click on to see exactly the activity you can reply too. Again, just once a day.

So my tip: label/sort whenever you feel like it, then only reply once per day. And give yourself a time limit or you'll go nuts. Sending off one or two line responses is totally fine because it's not like you're paying for postage and need to make it worth the cost. And if you have trouble deleting, archive is a wonderful tool. It's still there if you really need it (and you can search through it just like you would be using google search) but it's not cluttering up your inbox. I am at the point that I archive stuff that's not relevent to me now (for example, my internet provider automatically withdraws from my account but sends me a reciept every month, i dont' read it. I check the box and archive so I can print it for tax purposes at the end of the year. I just search my mail for everything from my internet provider and they all come up).

Hopefully you get some good tips and life gets a bit easier for you! The biggest thing is tha tyou don't HAVE to check your email every time "you have mail" and you don't HAVE to reply to everything.

The more I try to organize my email

sassymonkey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:27:48 -0600

The worse it gets. I've never found a system that works really well so I apply a few filters and rely on a good search. It generally works better than my attempts to file or label them.

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

Another idea I came across -

jennyonthespot — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:22:45 -0600

Another idea I came across - was from Elisa Camahort (@ElisaC)... she does this thing called EMAIL BANKRUPTCY... "On the 1st of every month I move emails in my Inbox to a folder for the month and start with a fresh inbox."

I must say, this is very appealing to me :)

Hit reply then save as

jennyonthespot — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:16:00 -0600

Hit reply then save as draft.... THAT is very interesting to me...

Wow!

jennyonthespot — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:14:06 -0600

Hey, yo! I just realized who this is! Thanks for contributing... I need to carve out some time to create filters. I think that would help... :)

i do :(

Tessa_W — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:08:39 -0600

I'm trying to stop. I don't do it in the city or anything. Just on the highway or on country roads when there's no one around. I defiantly read them. But sometimes I just need to click a few buttons to send an already made text to my hubby (like "on my way"). I know it's not an excuse. And I'm really trying to stop. I've improved greatly over the last couple weeks. It could wait before I got texting on my phone and it can wait now.

I am guilty of reading them.

Maria Young — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:03:26 -0600

But not trying to write them, at least not while the car is moving... :|

- Maria Young

http://immoralmatriarch.com

twitter.com/maria0305

partially

Tessa_W — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:02:50 -0600

I'm lucky to live in the country so even if someone found out my address it wouldn't necessarily lead them to me. That being said, I don't disclose my exact location. I just say Central Alberta, which is a few million people spread over quite a few miles.

I do disclose...

TW — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:58:13 -0600

But then, I know a lot of people who are dead set against disclosing their location online but then they talk about some festival or church event or whatever and you can figure out their location if you want.

Or they just talk about the weather. I used to know where everyone lived by watching what their weather posts were on posts for a few weeks. Yeah, that is weird but that is the sort of woman I am.

On the other hand, I am less amused when my children share that kind of info online. I suggested a rewrite to one of my daughters one time omitting the name of a place she frequents. She looked at me like I had lost my mind.

Retro-Food.com

I Don't Care

JennaHatfield — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:55:31 -0600

I'm a photographer for our local newspaper and freelance with the information of where I live plastered on all of those things. People know me and they know where I live and they would even if I wasn't a blogger. I know that's not the same for all but, really, it doesn't bother me. That said, I don't post my physical address (house number) anywhere.

@FireMom from Stop, Drop and Blog and The Chronicles of Munchkin Land

A Balancing Act

kanesmom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:43:12 -0600

I was just struggling with this topic the other day when I glanced up from my laptop only to see my son with my Blackberry up to his ear chattering a way what I can only describe as kane-talk. I knew then that I was obviously spending too much time with that addictive device reading email, blogs, tweets and countless other distractions that keep me feeling connected with the outside world. I am a recently inducted stay-at-home mom and I am having a difficult time adjusting to not having a deadline or project to work on. What really struck me though is the feeling that I had....Am trying so hard to stay connected with the outside world at the expense of staying connected with my son? I am really glad I stumbled on this post because a lot of the comments about striking a balance and just staying "aware" really put me at ease and made me feel better about taking some time to read posts like this!

Tales from the sippy cup

I do, a bit...

miguelina — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:17:00 -0600

But it helps that I live in Metro Boston - a pretty big area - but I prefer to keep my specific location as vague as possible.