Comments about ‘Mormon moms connect through blogs’

These Mormon women are playing with fire when they engage in unconrolled blogging. Countless marriage therapists have reported how so-called social networking sites are leading to infidelity and broken families. They report that it starts off innocently enough, but without exercise of extreme caution, it can quickly lead to contacting old flames with resulting affairs.

John Charity Spring raises a reasonable caution. Like with so many things, we need to be careful. But on the whole, this skeptic has turned into a supporter. Blogs not only help my wife (and me, by proxy) stay connected with friends and family, our blog also doubles as a type of family journal. We regular make back-ups and store in a folder on our computer, and with appropriate storage and conversions we anticipate accessing those blogs decades from now. It's the new scrapbook, but with print, photos, and even video.

to John Charity Spring: Mommy blogs are not the same as posting on FB. Most postings are there for the whole world to see and I've never seen an flirting on a Mommy blog. It's basically a journal entry with people getting the opportunity to comment on the subject the Mommy is talking about.

John Charity Spring is moralizing and preaching, but does not know about blogging. Maybe we should simply cut off contact from the world.

I had a wonderful time at the Conference and learned so much. Thanks to all who attended and those who sacrificed to put the entire thing together in the first place. It was great to finally meet many of the ladies whose life stories I've read and shared for the last 18 months. Can't wait for next year's conference!

I think what John is trying to say is that "moderation" should be used in all things and there are MANY people who take things that are good and do them at the expense of their family. I know my wife has told me "she doesn't have time for blogging" simply cuz' she is so busy taking care of her family. I worry about people who know more about "many" ladies and their "life stories" than they do their own family. Please don't tell me how you are SO CONNECTED to your family and have plenty of time or blogs. I'm glad you think you do. I'll bet if your family was honest and didn't want to hurt you, they'd tell you they'd enjoy the extra time.

There can be good in this, I agree, but we go way overboard on this stuff or any "good thing" in our culture trying to keep up with the JOnes.

Just Saying.

Really, people, in such cases as this you need to incorporate the wisdom of the ancients, handed down to us from time immemorial (or at least since the '90s):

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