When I first started my DeadJournal, I wrote a post complaining about the young “kids” (people in their mid-to-late teens) who post too much contact info on PUBLIC posts. I also commented on the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping in that same post, and I therefore feel obligated to point out her first interview.

Oddly, while I feel obligated to mention it, I also feel a bit disgusted that the media hounds people like that. I’m sure that the last thing she really wants to do is to talk about everything that’s going on in her life now to the national media — if it were me, I’d imagine that I’d want to find my own way to deal with it, then move on with my life. I understand the idea that the public ‘has a right to know,’ but I think that means we have a right to know things that’ll affect us. Not that we have a right to intrude on everyone’s life just because there was once a legitimate reason for us to hear about them.
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