Six years ago today my world completely changed. I used to think that my friends who became grandmothers quickly turned into gushing, obsessive, photo flashing ninnies. And I quickly joined the club. FRC was born August 2008 and I became Gigi. In case you’re wondering what Gigi stands for, it’s Glam Gram – as you can see, I wanted to be grandmother but I didn’t want to become a Grandma. Certainly not. I may be a woman of a certain age but I’m not a Granny.
Look who turned my world upside down and I am so grateful she did. I’ve said it before, Finley is my heart!
Sweet Baby
This cutie Is In The Pink
St. Patrick’s Day Baby
Finny’s First Visit To Shore
Finally Baptized
Princess Celebrates Her 2nd Birthday with Snow White
A Snow White Tutu
She Inherited The Cleaning Gene
A Yankee Fan
Pinkalicious Turns 3
Playing Nurse
Little Orphan Annie is 4
Jamaica Girl
San Diego
Visiting Gigi at the Jersey Shore
She’s A Beauty
Soccer Player Just Like Mommy
And A Ballerina Too
My precious!
Happy Birthday Princess!
Bill Ding and his band of clowns are the security patrol for this blog site. He is a favorite toy from the 50*s. By the way sometimes a blog is just an ego-maniacal stream of conscience.
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I know people regularly call me “a paranoid buzz-kill who despises technology & belongs in a previous century” or “a humourless, non-stop, purveyor of negativity”. (Hey, if the shoe fits!)
However, I still warn
peopleimbeciles about using their real names on the Internet. Few understand the potential pitfalls anymore, or even care. But I always tell proud parents & grandparents not to post pictures of their kids on the Internet…especially using their real names!It’s disturbingly easy to stalk people these days. For example, look at how much these guys got with nothing but a name in under a minute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E7FYWiBLxE And that was just the tip of the iceberg. They wound up stalking his every move in real time. I don’t mean to be critical, just cautionary. But these days, you might as well be posting these pictures on Child Grinder, or Kid-E-Bay. Because I’m sure there’s some diddler out there somewhere furiously “yanking his chain” to these pictures of your adorable grandchild and wishing he lived within driving distance. Considering the population size of the region in which you live, one of these pervs might just be local.
In my neck of the woods, the only kind of crime that hasn’t been falling in the last decade (most varieties of crime have been in free-fall for several decades) is child sex crimes. They’ve gone way up and the cops say it’s entirely due to Internet and the convenience it offers for abusers to meet up/hunt down their victims.
I know you’re proud, but I strongly suggest taking these pics down, or at the VERY least, deleting her real name from this story. Better safe than sorry. This is a sick world full of sick people.
But hey, I’m just a paranoid, technology hating, buzz-kill, so what do I know?
Thanks Sedate Me. In the past I’ve deleted any photos that I thought might be misused – I thought these were ok but I have taken some of what you said to heart and modified the blog.
Good!!!
Although, I still recommend you send pictures directly to known individuals (ideally via US Mail) and not post them on the Internet where every pervert (including the NSA ones) can see them. Oh, and make sure you don’t use your real name anywhere on this website. Because that lil’ cutie pie of yours is serious pedo-bait and somebody might hunt her down via you. Fans of that TLC kiddie porn show, Toddlers & Terriers, will be howling at your door. And once she’s in her teens, it won’t just be the pedo-pervs at the door….Jesus, I’m glad I’m not a father in 2014!
Because that link I included was terrifying! I really hope you watched it. I saw the entire show and things are even worse than I thought…and that’s saying something! Within 30 seconds, these guys knew the dude’s address, his income, phone number, e-mail, previous addresses and could look up similar details on family members & neighbours. In short, everything you need to pretend to be a “friend of your father”, or pull off whatever evil shit or scam you have in mind.
And after that scene, they used a website that sells credit card info and discovered where he went and what he ate for breakfast. Then they looked at his
socialstalker media page and found some GPS co-ordinate code in photos he posted. They spent the day following his every move. Somehow, all that’s perfectly legal! But they indicated they could do much more in the “grey zone”. Perhaps hack his phone (ask Rupert Murdoch) or surveillance cameras in the area. (Yes, even a novice can hack into most cameras attached to Internet connected computers and control them. I did it one day. Got photos of a guy doing his laundry via a laundry mat cam, a woman playing a computer game via her laptop cam, a boardroom meeting featuring a chart with a lot of downward arrows thanks to a “security” cam, and a couple making out in a No-tell Motel pool via the “we can fire the lifeguard now” cam.) Just imagine what you can do “illegally”, especially if you have some computer skills. Even what a tech-retard like me can do scares me.Anyway, just to test the theory, I tried the FREE version of the program in the clip (which I refuse to name). In 10 seconds, I found a very plausible address for somebody with that name (which I will not mention). For just $4 a month, who knows what I could dig up? You can now pry open damn near every detail of anybody’s life for your voyeuristic entertainment, your perversion, your criminal scam or manipulative marketing. At some point, everybody is the potential plaything of somebody sitting from the comfort of their desk.
Great world we live in -eh? Innocence is a punishable offence.
Sorry if I creeped you out with all this, because I creeped myself out. Ok, I feel the need to have a shower now.