What is a Blog or Online Journal: A Blog or Online Journal, are websites that allows an individual to “post” or write any information. Most blogs or Online Journals are used to relate the author’s viewpoint on many different subjects. Our children use blogs or online journals as their digital coming out party. Children will open a blog or online journal and then related what is happening in their lives. Information about their day at school, after school activities, girlfriends, boyfriends and the rest of their social life are described in great details. The blog or online journal may allow for interaction from readers. It allows the readers to post replies or their comments on the current state of affairs of the child’s life. As with online profiles, blogs and online journals need to be monitored to make sure the child is not giving out to much information. Some blogs or online journals have contained the child’s full name, address, telephone number, name of school and the date and location where the child could be found at after school activities. Obviously this type of information could be very dangerous in the hands of a sexual predator. Most children have the misconception that what ever they write on their blog or online journal is private and can only be read by people they give permission. This is not always true. There are several free search engines for blogs and online journals that may display what the child thought was private to anyone that knows how to use the search engine.