Edgy Mama

In a frenzy of parental overprotectiveness, I bought Net Nanny, an internet control program, last night. I’d gone to visit a blog I read fairly regularly (not local). The blogger is edgy sexy, but not a sex blogger. Maybe she’s occasionally R-rated, but not X. At least not until last night, when she posted a link to an on-line video that I foolishly, and to my unending regret, clicked on. I knew better. She had, in so many words, warned her readers, yet I was unprepared. Suffice it to say, it was XXX involving some truly repulsive bestiality. And I only watched a few seconds before turning it off. Then I scrubbed my computer with Clorox. I only wish I could scrub my brain. Then I went scurrying off to buy the MOST powerful internet control tool out there, otherwise known as Net Nanny.

I’m not typically a censorship kind of girl, but the thought of my kidlings inadvertantly clicking on something that disgusting (and if there’s one vid like that, you gotta know there are thousands), just about did me in. So, Net Nanny lets anyone using my computer to access Webkinz World, Pokemon.com, the Cleveland Indians home page, even the Asheville Citizen-Times. It does not, as far as I can tell, let me access a single blog without my password. Not even my this bloggie. I know I can disable it when I want to surf and/or change the protocols, but right now, Net Nanny and I are friends. She’s here to stay.