If anyone has been reading this blog (which I sincerely doubt, but who knows), you’ll know that I privatized my blog for about a month. Mercy Ships has a page that lists all the blogs of people who serve on the ship. One day, I looked on the Mercy Ships site and saw that my blog had mysteriously been added to the list-- without my permission.
To be honest, I was annoyed, and I still kind of am. It was fine when I wasn’t on board, but now that I personally know most of the crew and see them around every day, it’s weird to think that they too can read what I post (you know who you are... obviously if you're reading this >:/). I was more freaked out if anything than annoyed at first, but then when I went to the website to see if I could get my blog taken off the list, I came across this disclaimer:
"This site relies on the ability to access public RSS and Atom feeds to keep it updated. These links are all publicly accessible on the Internet and no laws have been broken in accumulating or displaying these links. If you wish for your website/blog not to appear on this listing or be accessible to the public it is your responsibility to make your website/blog private.
(www. = WORLD WIDE WEB)"
Um, can anyone say, rude? Yes, I know, they may be technically correct, but it still would've been nice if they (whoever "they" are) dropped me a line.
I’m not a very public, internet-y person. I very much dislike MySpace, and Facebook news feeds, and the utter stupidity that is Twitter. I started this blog so that I wouldn’t have to write 12 emails whenever I wanted to update my friends or family or church kids on my whereabouts— I did not start this blog so that I could reveal to all the people on the ship (and to all the people who are coming to the ship) that I sweat a lot and that my inner monologue is just a wee bit crazy (or that my inner monologue uses words like "wee" in the first place). And to be completely honest, I also felt pretty petty in comparison to the other Mercy Ships blogs. I still do. I do nothing medically related on the ship, so while the medical personnel write about patients and surgeries and miracles, and sometimes the heartbreak of dealing with death, I'd write about... well, Obama underpants.
Apparently, as was so unceremoniously pointed out to me, it was "my responsibility" to privatize my website, so that's what I did. But this weekend, I decided to get over it. I give. Whatever. Que Sera, Sera. Read if you wish. I will say though that I'm still a bit wary on the decision; there's a chance the blog may become privatized again, so if for some reason you'd like to follow my ramblings, let me know and I'll put you on the list so that you can still read the blogitz even if I have another "Oh crap, what have I done" moment.
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