Suppressed Blogs why?

Thanks David. I read your blogged posts about the E tracking, but couldn't se the sense in people going to all the trouble of writing the blog and then restricting access to it on a forum such as this. As you say each to their own.

Good I need something new to read, plenty of pictures I hope?

Cheers

D

Hi Duncan

I have just made it live now.


Cheers



Stephen

Agree Phil, its one reason why we now do our blogs after we have come home. And there is more time then to do them properly. But I can see the point of a locked blog so family and friends can be informed of travel progress without letting the whole world know of your movements.

Cheers,

Val

I don't see the point of posting a blog for only a few people to read.

I do a blog for my family and friends but send it via email as each section is finished with photos.

I then join all the emails into one document when I get back. It is mainly for my benefit to have a record of each trip complete with pics so I can reference them later.

This is the easiest method if you want to restrict access.

bill

Unless you put your name & address on the blog, how would the burglars know who you were etc?

It's just a matter of gathering information. A few examples.

Look at bbuzz above. Nice looking car and the young bloke up the road innocently says on FB that he saw them driving off on another expidition into the outback and puts a photo of it on FB. A crook in the area has "friended" the "young bloke up the road". This crook also knows where the car resides and that the house is now empty. Simple!

On one of my profile photos I had the car's number plate legible. I say in the blog that we are in Whoop Whoop. A crook, by paying a wayward official, can get hold of my address and bingo!

Some come from others seeing a car at Howsyafather Creek and mentioning the number plate in their blog.

And then we have Google who scans FB and public blogs and picks it up and the crook up the road has been waiting to read your blog.

And NO you lot!!! I did not do this for a living but I did see how innocent pieces of information when collected together can provide quite a good "story".

Phil

Shaker,

It will vary from one person to another, but depending on your on-line profile, with google, face recognition software, some imagination and technical know how etc, a lot could be learned even staying within legal limits. As Phil has said, throw in a bit of underhand stuff and who knows what can be discovered.

I think David has done well to provide a feature that has been requested.

Cheers,

Val