This is Me!

These next few pictures are of me and yes, Aaron( my uncle) and my brother Matt call them “Glamour Shots” to be exact and I’m expecting Ace to comment but it is all okay if he doesn’t! I hope you enjoy them!

I got my hair cut so this was soon after. I've tried different styles each day and the one in the picture is now one of my least favorite so another one will come soon! It's really short but it's a lot easier then it was before!

So me and Kim Crawford (one of my cousins) were just hanging out and we got bored. It just so happens that her older sister has a lot of hats so we took shots of them. This one was my favorite, the Chinese one. I felt like doing one of there so called "Sacred Bows". That was one fun day!

This one is so called "Scary Monster" because I'm without makeup before I go to bed. That night, one of my besties, Natalee Ballard, had the privilege to sleep over for a night because her parents went to Hawaii (and just so you know, her parents were on a plane and guess who was on it? Yeah, only David Archuleta!! They got his signature and a picture with him. His hand writing when to my friend and soon framed it with some pictures she got off the Internet. Yeah...those lucky ducks I must say!) so we had a whole lot of fun, just what girls like to do!

This one was at Nat's house again and my favorite is my nose! Yeah, it's huge like a grandpas! I feel special...

This picture is voted “Best picture ever taken of Emmeli” so I say; and I even took it!! When this one was on facebook, a lot of people commented on it and said that I looked like a super model but to me, it’s a person who is trying her hardest to be a good person towards others. Who knows what this person can do?

When a Door Closes, Another one Opens

For a while now, I have had a facebook and it was my favorite! I was on it all the time talking to my close friends, putting pictures of me, my friends, and my family on there, and just enjoying everything about it! It seemed like all of my days stresses were gone when I was on there and when I had a good day, I told my friends all about it. It was my heaven! A big thing happened in the middle of everything and yes, it was a guy who I thought was pretty awesome at the time. I found my self on there for maybe about 5 hours a day to wait for him to get on so we could talk. After we sorta "broke up" as you could say, my parents made a time limit because it was cutting out my time with the family. My limit was 20 minutes a day and I always snuck on a lot still because you can't do a lot in 20 min. It started to get bad but soon just how it was before. I had one and one talks with my parents about there concerns and what I thought about the whole thing; to be honest, it got pretty annoying.

Soon I got sick of that so it started to get better which was about a half hour each day. It was perfect for me and it seemed like there wasn't as much stuff that I needed to do on their as much as I needed to before. I was pretty happy but still not overly best. I still wanted life better and I wanted to be happier but I didn't know what to do. I just needed and wanted a change.

The North Stake President and Presidency have said to get rid of Facebook but inside I had the attitude like "Yeah Right!" A couple days ago my amazing uncle came to me and started talking to me about the whole facebook thing and said why the teens needed to . I was asleep for a while and during my dream time, my dad and uncle were talking about it. After I awoke my dad told me to listen to him about what he was going to say and I new what was coming. He told me a story that there stake president gave and this is what I heard.

A girl down south had a facebook and she followed all the rules on there. She had pictures of her and friends and she never thought any harm could come of it. Well she got poked by a guy (which means they can see your profile) and he looked through her pictures. In one of them, there was a person in the back ground with a sweat shirt on with there school name. He got where she lived and soon was there in her home town and following her for 5 days so he knew her daily schedule and where she was at all times. After those days, he kidnapped the girl. Soon after, they found the guy right before he killed her. But how did he find her? Facebook.

I never knew that people could poke me and see my profile and I don't think most people know that either. It was a big supprise to me and I got scared to death by the thought of someone doing that to me! Even the good and wholesome people can be led into something they never knew was happening behind their backs.

The FBI 2nd thing on the danger list is having teens have Internet accouts such as Facebook, Bebo etc. Their has been murderings and other bad things happen to people, especially girls, that no one would expect by having an account of something; I never knew it personally.

Facebook isn't wrong at all, it's the risks of those Internet predators who are after teenagers. If it weren't for those people looking for something horribally wrong, I would still most likely have a facebook still. Every one has there agency but I have decided to delete mine for these reasons. Most people as you know don't have these problems at all but to me, it isn't worth the risk. I don't want to die and face Him and have Him ask why I didn't follow my Stake Presidents advise. I don't want to live with regret. There are a lot more stake presidents saying the same thing just like the North and Henrey's Fork Stake Presidents have. I'm not here to persuade anyone who is reading this but I do want to set an example for the people around me.

After finding this stuff out, I've decided to delete my facebook and create a blog which is practically like a jounral. I want to look back and have my future family know what I have faced and what I'm giving up. My blog is going to count for one of my Personal Progress Projects and to always update it ever twice a week or so. I'm also going to protect mine soon so no one can get on my sight with out my permission. If you want to email me, post a comment on this post so I can add you.

I want everyone to know, friends, family, and loves ones, that I want to say I'm sorry for the pain that my family has had to put up with this. Before having a time limit and being on facebook ALL the time, was taking me away from my family. Instead of bonding with my sibblings and making memories with them fot the short time that I'm here with them to watch then grow and learn, I was on facebook most of my day. It was a big regret of mine and I've appologized to my family about it but I can't go back and relive it again. We learn from our mistakes but I hope that you learn from mine.

Thanks for reading my brief story on why I'm deleting mine. I hope you respect my decision and come to an understanding what I'm talking about is the truth. My door of facebook closes, but my life of blogging and happiness is opening now.