Comments on: Guest Post: Teens and Tracking Their Online Activity

By: Bre

Bre — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:55:57 +0000

all of u super parents on here annoy me. u r all very annoying and have no life and constantly monitor your kids.

its ok if you made a mistake when you were a kid, but if YOUR child does it, heavens, you will not have that in
your house..! there will be no mistakes you can make on your own to learn from in my household, children, you will
learn why you shouldnt do that because “i dont want you to make the same decisions” and YOU WILL learn from MY
mistakes and stories!
you have no respect or trust for your kid. you expect kids to be heterosexual, welldressed, christian, well
educated little ass kissers dont you? go to college, stay a virgin until marriage, and dont find out about
sex and everything else until your 18. even 17 year olds dont have much more priveledges than the 5 year olds
in the family.
one flaw and its overreeact time. one mistake and your instantly embarrassed b/cuz god forbid the neighbors
or the country club members find out about it. b/cuz they totally care. oh im sorry to waste your time i
realize its time for you to dress snobby to impress people at your local church, i know its good for your cover
and rep.

By: jerrod

jerrod — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:03:44 +0000

I just found out that my parents had installed this on MY laptop. I’m seventeen years old, I don’t think I should still be getting spied on.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:20:52 +0000

Look I’m not being funny but any self respecting teen thats even the slightest bit computer savvy knows how to clear their history as well as disable most parental keyloggers.

My mum tried it on me once when I was 13 and I knew straight away what had been done. I located it disabled it and hit the roof. I never trusted her again and set myself as admin and used the parental controls on her account so that she couldn’t install anything without me approving it.
All it does is lose you your childs trust and they will go to even greater lengths to hide what they are doing.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:06:33 +0000

I really believe that when there is an environment of accountability in the home, it can change the way we all surf the Internet: http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/06/12/is-filtering-all-there-is-introducing-accountability-software/

By: becca

becca — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:06:37 +0000

i agree with you completely!!!!!
im not a parent.
im a child and i hate it when my parents cant trust me with anything. they are always spying on me and i feel like that they think that i am going to make bad decisions.i just want them to understand that they do not need to be checking up on me every second because im not stupid and i will make good decisions and that they need to give me some space and stay out of my business and personal life

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By: Marian Merritt

Marian Merritt — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:41:28 +0000

Hi,

I’m afraid you really have missed the point and the spirit of Norton Online Family. It’s the first product to ask that parents agree with their kids on house rules, to only exist in an “open” mode (there is no “stealth” mode or way to monitor in a hidden or spying fashion) and our goal is to build communication within the family about appropriate online activity. For this reason, we list having a regular “Talk” about online safety as a prerequisite to using the service.

We don’t track comments on social networks or what’s put into emails. The service (on PC and Mac and accessible on any webbrowser) reports sites visited, search terms used on a variety of sites, and blocks sites that parents and kids have agreed are not suitable.

The product is flexible, with high control for little kids and very little hard control for older kids. And parents and kids have easy ways to communicate with each others if the out of the box settings don’t work for them.

I think people who try this kind of family safety service will never want to use traditional parental control software again. This is much more open, positive and supportive of both the parent and the child. We encourage the parents to understand the child’s intentions, rather than overreact to evidence of mistakes.

We feel as passionately as you do that spying on our children is not the answer. We would much prefer to have parents educate their kids about how to use the internet safely so they can become happy, healthy and mature web users.

By: Anelly

Anelly — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:12:37 +0000

I agree that spying is not a nice thing and i guess an alternative is to use a parental control software. In this way you don’t spy what your child is doing online but in the same time you know he is safe because you have restricted access to specific websites that you consider being improper.

By: Sarah Newton - Your Gen Y Guide

Sarah Newton - Your Gen Y Guide — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:38:32 +0000

Hi Ash

Yes I think Internet filters are preventive which is a good things. It is more pro-active as we would call it in the police and is in my mind the way to go.

I always think about how I would explain it to my children if they found out or how I would feel if it was done to me.

Internet filters are like a seat belt rather than never taking them in the car because we fear what will happen.

Thanks for your comment I appreciate it

Sarah
Your Gen Y Guide
http://www.theteencoacgblog.com