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I am really curious as to what your daughter's thoughts are as to this.

While I see that the intent is good, I'd think twice about posting personal information for the world to see. Did we not see that Today show video?

I think it'll eventually turn into a place where heli-parents will congregate. If I were an 18-22 year old I'd be :eek: if I found out my mother was blogging my every experience.

This. I only glanced at the links but it did have a lot of personal information about your daughter. Including her name, school and chapter.

The link to your blog featured a post entitled "Getting In, Growing up and Letting Go". I think the "Letting Go" portion is a bit ironic, since blogging about your daughter's sorority experience is kind of the opposite of Letting Go.

BTW, the site in question (since the OP revised her post) is sororityparents.com

As with all sites, I would caution people never use a real name or identifier, but I do see that this site is powered by the NPC.

The mere fact that it's supported and powered by the NPC does not make it any more safe or reputable than other sites.

The NPC should seriously rethink allowing their bloggers to use their full names and provide identifying information about their daughters and their chapters.

She may say she is, but is she really? I for one would not want my mom blogging about my sorority life. If my mom had a blog and perhaps mentioned my sorority's events in passing... that MAY be ok. But for her to have a complete blog dedicated to my collegiate experience:eek::eek::eek: NO WAY!!! Also what about your daughter's sisters... yes they are going to be a part of your post as she is. You already have a picture up of them on your blog (yes this is probably taken off of facebook) but at least they are able to monitor their own facebook sites, while they probably have no idea about your blog.

I agree wholeheartedly.

It's probably like everything else - the first time out the gate, the product isn't completely perfect.

This. Big Time.

And we have a QFP failure.

I know. I am so ashamed of my failure to QFP. My only excuse is that I am also trying to do some research under ERISA (ick) and obviously just wasn't thinking.

If it helps, the OP is a mom who has a daughter who is an AOPi. There's only a couple bloggers listed, so you can figure out which one the OP is pretty quickly.

All is forgiven, and then some. Ick is right!

My fault too. Sorry. :-( kddani pretty much summed it up.

OMG. I got embarassed for the kids just seeing the parents' names on that site, regardless of anything they would write. I already cringe a little bit at my friends who have semi-private blogs talking about their kids. Even if you don't use names, the world is SO small that at some point people will figure out it's you, either from your picture or from details.

This just confirms to me that some of the kids nowadays are operating with a completely different mindset that I can't even fathom. There were times I never wanted to speak to my mom again just for sharing something about me with her best friend. I can't IMAGINE if she would have put it on a blog.

I'm upset that the NPC has chosen to support something like this. Yes, parents will have questions about their daughter's involvement in a sorority. We on GC get those same questions from similar people. But going so far as having a blog and a place for parents to live vicariously through their daughters is wrong in my opinion.

Some of the parents on the site in question are Greek themselves, and that really confuses me. You know what these young women are going through, you have been through it yourself. This is the time in their lives where they have to figure out stuff for themselves. Not to have their mom or dad hold their hands and guide them through everything to initiation. I'm not saying you shouldn't support your daughters going through the system, but you had your fun as a PNM/Active. Let them have theirs.

Granted, I haven't looked long and hard at the site, but I really don't think it's that bad. I know quite a few young women who didn't have the chance to be in a sorority or found membership difficult because they didn't have the support of their family members. Giving parents a reliable source of information that portrays sorority life in an honest, positive light (as opposed to the media, which is where most people outside of the greek world would get their information otherwise) seems like a positive, not a negative.

Perhaps it wouldn't ruffle so many feathers if the bloggers wrote one-time entries about their experiences with their daughters' decisions to go greek instead of continuing sagas? I do agree that a long-term blog written by a parent about a child who has left home is not really a healthy experience for either party.

The name of the site is in the title of the thread.

I think the site reveals way too much about her daughter. There is already a stalker out there.

The same results can easily be achieved without naming her daughter, or her daughter's sorority or school.

I can't imagine posting information about my daughter that could potentially place her in danger. A few people on this site know where she went to school, majority of you know her as "daughter". You don't have my real name here, once again keeping her identity unknown to the world. Blogging about her experiences while in school would have been extremely difficult as she does not tell me everything. If anyone asks for advise in terms of sending their child away to school, I give them info as far as a parent, not invading her privacy.

If we don't let out daughters acquire their independence when they go away to school, at what point in their lives do we magically decide they are grown up enough to enjoy their own life?

DaffyKD

I dont mind the site, but once a parent starts revealing pledging information, thats not cool. The pledging process isnt easy but regardless, its sacred. This is an experience that only the sisters are suppose to share together. This is what makes the sisterhood bond closer. My mother wasnt Greek and she sure as hell tried to pull information out of me about my process, and i refuse to tell her Parents can blog about their feelings about watching their child pledge but not reveal secrets that the kid has revealed to them. The only reason NPC is agreeing to it is so they dnt have a bunch of angry parents protesting lol.

You don't know jack shit about the NPC so shut your mouth.

excuse me?!...

By the way, you might want to value your privacy a little more. Just sayin'.

ur just sayin nothin!...look this is an open website where u state either fact or opinion. What i put up is my opinion, got a problem with it, oh well, shit happens and you wipe ur ass. I do value my privacy cuz nothing up there i put said anything about my sisterhood personally. I dont agree with parents putting up information about theyre kids pledging unless they were hazed and its an awareness group.

QFP.

Um, why on earth would you reveal your org's secrets to your parents? There's the problem. Secrets are supposed to be secret!

For good or ill, the blog is more oriented to a PARENT'S perspective on his/her daughter's experience. The whole point is to give potential NPC new members' parents an "inside look." I didn't see any secret information revealed - to which blog post were you referring, Edge?

I'm not sure you are in a position to have an informed opinion on what the NPC does and why since you are not a part of it. I haven't seen secrets revealed on the few posts I've read...where did you find ritual?

I think a one time post might be a better solution to this as well as a request that parents do not include real names and the school their child is attending. That isn't safe. It's great that they're offering a place for parents to share experiences since for many it can be confusing, especially if the parent isn't Greek. There's just probably a happy medium somewhere that can be both safe and informative.

She's talking about the "sacred" information about the pledge process.

She's coming from a very different perspective from that of NPC orgs.

I agree MysticCat. She really needs to shut her mouth. Anyway, maybe I missed it but, I didn't see where they revealed schools. I just saw names of the sororities and the one with a picture of the girl and her pledge class. I couldn't really read the writing on the picture, though.

I don't know if I care for this site, though. To be honest-it's almost as bad (if they give out too much information) as posting tons of pictures of your child all over facebook with name, birthday, school, etc. I see it all the time and cringe. I especially cringe when people allow their 5 or 6 year-old to have their own facebook page. Really?

THIS is why younger college students post way too much on facebook and other social media sites. It seems to be okay-because the adults in their lives are saying it is.

Check out the blogs -- as kddani says, there aren't many. The OP

• gives her own name (first and last),
• gives her daughter's name (first),
• identifies her daughter's school,
• Identifies her daughter's chapter,
• identifies her daughter in a picture of daughter's new member class, and
• tells what office her daughter has been elected to.

I know this is out of my lane, but I just think this is a terrible idea -- at least without appropriate limits to protect personal information.

It's in the bloggers' bios.
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