I got an email from one of my friends about another one of my friends that was very disturbing.
She has sitemeter on her website and had discovered her children's pictures on a pornographic website.
This is what she wrote:
I have SITE METER attached to my blog spot but unfortunately I have been really bad about checking it for unusual visiting sites this past year. To be honest, I have always been very trusting and thought that I could never be the one whom wackos actually target and stalk so I rarely have made efforts to check. Tonight I chose to click into it and directly on the first page I noticed an unusual website that had viewed my blog. Curiously, I clicked onto it to see what it was. The site contained dozens and dozens of images. I began looking closer at them and come to find out there were some VERY inappropriate pictures. I clicked out of the site immediately and sat there talking to Brett about my concerns. We both became VERY worried. The more I sat there, THE MORE SICK TO MY STOMACH I WAS. IF THIS PAGE HAD DIRECT AFFILIATION TO MY BLOG, THEN THAT MEANS THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT THEY HAVE A PICTURE OF MY KIDS OR FAMILY ON THAT PAGE.
With out hesitation, I went right back to that page. I was so scared of what I was going to find. There were hundreds of pictures on that page and I looked through each one very quickly but efficiently when all of a sudden I FOUND A PICTURE OF MY SWEET TAYLIN. Yes, a picture of my sweet Taylin on the same page as pornographic AND child perverted pictures. I then returned BACK to my site meter to look for other sites in direct affiliation with my blog. I found a different website that had come to my page 5 TIMES THAT INCLUDED A PICTURE OF RIDGE WITH HIS LITTLE BUNS SHOWING AS HE WAS SITTING ON THE TABLE DOING DISHES. I'm just sick right now. My sweet innocent children so exposed. I FEEL SO VIOLATED AND SCARED.
I immediately googled the website BING to find out more about what it is. I then went to WWW.VOICEFORTHECHILDREN.BLOGSPOT.COM to see if I could find anything. Here is an explanation of what this website is. BING:BING is a recent search engine launched by Microsoft. The major problem with Bing is that it has brought pornography directly into your home or office. Porn is no longer a few clicks away.When you search on Bing, you no longer have to click to go to a different website to view porn. All you have to do is roll over the thumbnail image of the video on the video will begin to play snippets of the pornographic video.Imagine the harmful effects if a child is searching on Bing and merely rolls over the image and instantly the child is watching a porn video.This is completely unacceptable and irresponsible of Microsoft to launch a program such as this without a solution to block pornographic videos.
DO NOT USE BING AND ESPECIALLY DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN SEARCH ON BING!!*Do yourselves a favor and add VOICEFORTHECHILDREN to your blog. My uncle, Jeremy Geigle, is President of Arizona Family Council and between him and a few other family members, they are SO diligent about keeping this blog up to date. They want nothing more than to educate all of us on how we can keep our families safe and protected from the pornographic world. As ruthless as it is, I hope I DID scare a lot of you.
We stay so sheltered and ignorant thinking it will never happen to us...but let me tell you people, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IS EVERYWHERE.
Let me remind everyone too that Phoenix now is the #1 kidnapping capital in America.*
If you have kids old enough to play games on the computer, I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend that you download this web protection site to your computer. We have had it all year long, until our computer broke. We recently got our computer back and I forgot to re-download this protection, WHICH IS WHY I COULD EVEN ACCESS THAT BING WEBSITE WITH THOSE IMAGES.
I PROMISE you, having this K9 WEB PROTECTION is the BEST way as of right now, to protect your kids from seeing anything pornographic or inappropriate on the computer. Pornography is so available that even if your baby started slamming down on keys, a porn website could pop it. Any porn sites, sites with questionable images, swim suit sites, facebook, youtube, and other social networking sites are ALL BLOCKED. It is VERY FILTERED. HOWEVER, you will have an ACCESS password that will allow you (as the adult) to type in a password that will allow you to enter into a site you want available to you. You will have to type in the password every time you want to enter the site. (it's one extra step that is worth the 2 seconds).
I love knowing that I can walk out of the room now with my kids playing on the computer and I have NO concerns that something will pop up.
11 comments:
We just went private because of that very reason. Let me know if you do and I can tell you how you keep this Blog open and private ( it sounds confusing, but it is really easy and it allows others to contact you if they want to view your private blog )
I agree private is the safest way to go but its no guarantee. I have been given a code you can add to your blog as an HTML gadget if you'd like it. It prevents people from being able to right click and steal your pictures.
If you go private, may I please have an invite?
I have enjoyed following your blog. You have a dear sweet family who miss having their little girl (or sister) in your home. I have found it humbling to have been able to follow your family. Your daughters have a special Mother and Father; just as the two of you have four special daughters. Even though I do not know you I think about you and your family. Heavenly Father is THERE watching over you. All I can do is ask - if you go private, will you please invite me?
Continued thoughts and prayers are with you.
bestteyem@gmail.com
I had read Brooke's email a couple nights ago (maybe you had picked up on that :o) and is exactly why I decided to go private.
Jenn, it's just like everything in life, Satan tries to make something good like your blog, become something evil. He tries to scare people into going private. Do what you want, but I feel we all need to hear what is in your heart. There is a risk in everything we do. You have touched lots of people with your story but we support whatever you decide. Love, Teri
I love to read your inspiring words, and hear how strong you are. If you go private, I would love an invite.
The Bowmans
Hi. You don't know me - I'm a mutual friend of Tennille's. I can't believe what you said happened and it seriously concerns me too. I'm unfamiliar with the monitoring service you mentioned that you use. How did you catch these people using your pics? Also, when I told my hubby, he told me to ask you if you've reported that website to the police because they could serve some serious time for doing that. My name is Kari Brown. You can email me, if you don't mind, at kari_brown98@hotmail.com. Thanks!
Wow, that is soo dang scary! I have heard 2 similar stories about things that happened with blogs that are not private!
if you do go private, please send me an invite at tawnilenise@cox.net
Jenn, I would love to be a part of your Mother in Law's blog! I think it would be really good for me, let me know what I need to do! Oh and this last post is really scary!
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