Blog Etiquette - I am really trying to be nice!
As I said, I am really trying to be nice. Trying not to judge. Trying to keep in mind that not everyone is like me…I really am. But I am faced with a pretty interesting situation. I read a lot of blogs - and on occasion, I’ll click on a link in someone’s blog role (or signature on a message board) and check it out. Sometimes, it’s really awesome to peek into someone else’s life and kinda see how things tick. Other times it really is kinda scary. Especially when you see something that is just…not expected.
Take, for example, the time I stumbled upon a blog by a woman who had been struggling with fertility issues for years, was doing all the treatments and trying very hard to get pregnant - yet, her blog was full of drunken debauchery and stories about how she’d gotten ’so drunk’ before her FET. Seems a little self destructive, if you ask me.
Anyway, so today, I found another blog - I’d looked at it before, it had a few pictures on it and the pictures…well…they scared me. But I figured, it was a ‘one time thing’ and surely, if I came back at another time and looked at the pictures, they’d be different…the thing that had scared me would be taken care of.
I was wrong.
This woman lives in squaller. Pure filth. Feces on the ground in one photo (I assume animal) and even one picture of her child (adopted) eating pet food out of a bowl on the floor. The child is generally filthy, wearing clothes that are far to big for her (and a little to old for her) and her hair…the poor child.
Now, if this were one or two pictures of ten, I’d say no big deal. But it’s not. Even the pictures that don’t show the filthy disgusting house or the uncared for child, show group of scantly clad (in one, breast exposed) adults, drinking beer/whatever, with kids in the background.
Now, I’m not a prude. I think it’s ok to have a drink or two with the kids around…but beyond that, I don’t think it’s ok. Having a glass of wine with dinner is way different than having a Kegger with the kids in tow.
So, the question is, blog etiquette - what do I do? Ignore it? Post a message? Do some web-sleuthing and hot line her to her state?
This poor little girl…
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Hmmm, are you looking at pics from my childhood? Seriously, if you can help the child, then please do. Etiquette or not, if you can help her, PLEASE DO.
Whew. Not us. No pets or dog food. Or girls for that matter. But it sure is messy up in here… but, really, just toys.
I’d sleuth and hotline. You know as well as I do that while cleanliness doesn’t always equate to parenting worth, it can often be a sign of other problems. Tip ‘em off and let them do the work. It will be a load off of your conscience.