Last post for class!

After this post I can finally write whatever I want on this blog!

What I got out of the videos was to live in suspicion. As paranoid as that sounds, seriously, it's a freaky online world. You can't just hope that people are going to be honest as it's open to everyone. Never give out your passwords, or any identifiers. Even if you don't people can still figure you out so don't trust anyone online you don't know in person. And if someone does start to get into your life (send threats or whatever), let others know and get the police involved. Be safe and the internet can be great!

4th Article

I chose to read an article entitled “Setting Family Standards for Entertainment” by Carla Dalton (found in the Ensign, Jun 2001, 26) and I really enjoyed her incites. I particularly enjoyed her analogies comparing a big wave getting all her stuff wet on vacation to how we often trust sandy foundations in the world, assuming we are on safe ground, only to be flooded with a deluge of evil. I plan to teach my children that when something initially shocks and offends us we should quickly eliminate such things from our lives, before they have a chance to gradually dull our spiritual sensitivities. Also, I loved her incite that “if I, as a parent, want to remain credible in the eyes of my children, I cannot justify listening to or viewing the kind of entertainment that I have asked my children not to participate in.” There are many movies that I watch right now that I wouldn’t want my children to watch and I am realizing the importance of eliminating those things from my life before I actually have children and thus avoid hypocrisy. Lastly, I can remind family and friends that when we turn the television (or a movie) we are inviting guests into our homes, and we should make sure those guests will not corrupt our families from the inside out.