Chapter 9. Step 6: Reduce Your Vulnerability When Blogging

Caroline’s family had just moved to a new town, and she missed her friends in Brisbane. She decided that a great way to keep in touch would be to start a blog. All the kids at her new school were getting into blogging, so it would be a good way to make new friends, too.

Caroline found the sign-up process for her site easy to work through. Eager to get started, she accepted all the default settings and typed in her city and state in Australia. She thought that a racy nickname might make the kids at her new school think she was cool, so she chose "NaughtyCaroline." She entered her contact information and customized her Web address using her last name and the year she was born so she could ...

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