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 Would you mind if your parents blogged about you?

I would definitely mind if my parents blogged about me. My parents use an app called WeChat which they would probably use to blog if they were to blog or have blogged about me. I do not know because I do not have the app, but they could be currently blogging about me and I would not know and would frankly not want to find out. I do not expect them to be blogging about me because they have a lot going on in their lives. Plus I think unless they are only writing about me they would need to secretly take photos which I have not seen them doing. When I say parents I mostly mean my mom. I would be extremely surprised and maybe a little uncomfortable if my dad were to blog or has blogged about me because I do not think he is that type of person. He’s chill. My mom on the other hand, I could definitely see her blogging about me. In fact she probably has mentioned me in her WeChat posts. The only photos she could possibly have would be photos from a vacation because those are the only times we have taken photos together that I can remember. In fact on vacations I often try to avoid taking photos because I do not really see any point in taking them. Most of the time I would only take a photo if it was a full family photo because then my mom would have to go through the effort of asking someone to take a photo for us and I did not want to let their efforts go to waste. My mom would then have to look through her photos and write a blog which I do not think she does. The main reason I would not want my mom to blog about me is because I am a victim of her always telling me about other parent’s kids. For example I met these two kids on a cruise when I was like five and my mom still talks about them every now and then. She told me how one is a swimmer, their dad is a professor at Stanford, and both of them went to Stanford. Luckily she does not compare me to any of them, but she mentions them like I should care. Like Mom I was like five, I have no clue what they are like now, and they sound like legacy to me. Kidding, they are both probably great people who got in on their own accord. I do not mind when she tells me this stuff, but I hope she does not expect me to care too much. I guess I would not want my parents to blog about me because I would not want someone who does not know me too well to have to hear about stuff they do not care about. Fortunately I do not think my parents tell me where people go to colleges and put pressure on me, but other people probably do. I could see how parents constantly bringing up where people go to colleges could put pressure on a child by making them think they also have to do something. I think this is also a problem with social media. Depending on your personality, seeing someone else's achievements can be pretty toxic. I think it is important to realize that seeing someone else's achievements is toxic, but they can also be inspiring to you. How you take social media really depends on your personality which is why I would not want my parents to blog about me just in case it rubs someone the wrong way.