Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had blogs?

Hmm.. so when did this web logging thing become such a sensation? Or has it always been? When I went to school, there were only a handful of gamers who kept plugging their sites to get hits. Now, every elementary student has a blog or at least a myspace site. I had this great prof in university. I checked up on him and lo and behold, he has a blog now too. At least my parents don't have blogs. That'd just be weird. Imagine being able to read on a public website the thoughts and feelings of your parents or your children. Eww! OK, sure, I have a blog but it's about Mattias Ohlund and the Canucks.

Aren't people scared of stalkers? Of friends and family knowing exactly what's going on in their lives? Of people knowing their innermost feelings and dreams? Of corporations making profit out of people's narcissism?

Aside: If you're not afraid of random people, how about the US government? Here's a snippet from an article on Google and privacy:

Of all the major search engines, Google is the only one to publicly disclose that it has fought government efforts for consumer data. A year ago, Google challenged a subpoena received by the U.S. Department of Justice that ordered Google to hand over a random sample of a week's worth of search terms and one million Web pages from its index to aid in the Bush administration's defense of an Internet pornography law. One month later a federal judge sided mostly with Google and ordered the company to provide half of the amount of Web pages sought but none of the search queries.