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Imagine discovering pictures of your children on someone else's blog or Facebook page; the pictures you took of your kids at their birthday party or the swimming pool or dressed up in crazy outfits now being used to create a fake life for a stranger as they claim your children as their own.  And now imagine the pictures being used in a scam that raised $1200 in several hours, garnering 6500 Facebook likes, that devastated thousands when they discovered that the whole thing was a hoax? Tertia Loebenberg Albertyn of So Close doesn't have to imagine it: it happened to her a few weeks ago.  Read more >

There has been talk around the blogosphere about comments tapering off; where there were once vibrant conversations, there are now only a few people talking. And yet the same people report that their overall stats haven't fallen. Readership for the most part remains constant, but the discussion has tapered off, almost as if it has been sprayed with experimental perfume and we're witnessing the Incredible Shrinking Blog.  Read more >