Sometimes it blows my mind how the internet can effect our lives….

So last night I was checking out this new beta analytics software for random sarah called woopra.

Woopra tracks the people on your site in real time. So in order to see some people on my site I went on yahoo live to ask some people to visit so I could see what the data looked like. So of course I put it up on twitter and on pownce that I was on Y! live and also live on the embedded code on the Random Sarah Live tab on the top of this page.

No here is where it gets strange. My younger sister has a twitter and she follows me on twitter of course… My tweets go straight to her cell phone, which happened to be charging in my parents room. So my father decides to read the text message that she got and I guess when you see that your daughter is “live on the internet” some bad things might come to mind. So clearly my father gets on his macbook pro and goes to the yahoo live site and is just watching me (of course I am completely unaware of this) Until my sister heres my voice coming from my parents room upstairs. So she goes into the room only to see my dad just watching the feed. So she takes the computer and decides to sign in and so I see her on the webcam on the bottom of the screen. So of course I freak out cause its wierd enough having my little sister watch, but having my parents watch just seems wrong.

Stop…now I don’t know why it seems wrong it just does. It makes total sense to me that when I put my life on the internet (especially live) I really have given up a lot of privacy. What concerns me is that as soon as my sister when on Y! live my dad was upset. I really don’t know how to explain to the older generation that video chat on the internet is ok. It has been going on for years. Now of course sometimes the people on Yahoo Live can get a little crazy, but it’s still a fun time. And its a great way to promote the website.