It's a Jungle Online
After being exploited due of my once-trusting nature about 4 1/2 years ago, I unplugged then ditched my computer for many months. Much of what was done to me happened online. I was severely ill and too traumatized then. It took me that long to wrap my head around what had happened, my part in it and deal with the (still unanswered) 'whys.' People do and say a lot of things online they would never do or say in real life . Therein lies the problem. I went and got a new computer because in my trauma I had personally smashed up a lot of my equipment. I spent time at a retreat and had what used to be called a breakdown. It took a lot of therapy for me to be o.k. with getting back online. I am grateful to Blogger.com for being so helpful during my May 2007 hacking in identifying the culprits and keeping an eye on things for me now. Since then I constantly tell my friends and anyone I talk to to PLEASE PLEASE be careful online. I watch my children like a hawk and monitor them...