I think in his mind it was perfectly innocent, but it was still unacceptable and led me to delete his youtube account. One day a few weeks ago, I checked my email, and had a message from someone on youtube. I used my email address when we opened Ryan's account so that I could keep tabs on what he was looking at, and apparently I wasn't paying enough attention. I don't want to go into too much detail, but he commented on a video that was a little racist. All hey said was "shut up", but it angered another commenter. The response I received was full of hate, and it blew me away. I immediately deleted Ryan's account, and he is no longer allowed on youtube without me sitting here with him.
But, like I said, I have no idea what he does when I am not home. I hope he doesn't go where I told him not to, but come on, we were all teenagers once, and I know I didn't always listen to my parents. This is where NannySoft can come in handy. This program can show you exactly where your child has been while online. You can monitor keystrokes, seeing exactly what your child has typed in and searched for. You can also see screenshots of the websites that were visited. Add to this the email alerts you receive when the rules are violated, and you can know exactly what your kids are doing.
Is this an invasion of their privacy? Maybe. But as a parent, it is my job to keep my kids safe, and if that means keeping tabs on their online activities, so be it.
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You know, I never installed any programs to keep track of what Nick was doing. I'm a pretty good cyber-sleuth on my own. WE found some sites that he had looked up and we probably had three really big issues. On the last find (well over a year ago) I threatened to tell his girlfriend what he was looking at and that he would have to explain himself to the girl's father.
We haven't had an issue since.
that is pretty cool. i have some time before my kiddies are on the internet by themselves, but maybe I need this for my husband and his friends. lol Just kidding. i wonder what kind of stuff they will have in a few yrs when I do have to worry about my kids and the computer?? interesting.
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