Imagine this, you are a parent who recently got spyware for your kids phones and computers, months later your son is looking through his phone and notices something strange about his phone. He decided to investigate and notices his phone is jailbroken and finds an odd app which he later knows its spyware. You get home, your son walks up to you and confronts you about using spyware on their phone to track and read his text messages, that just ruined the trust between your son. What do you do now? Spyware are apps or softwares that are used among parents to track their child’s every move, from being able to read their texts to seeing their location these apps can help monitor your kids digital footprint. But is this really helping? Some
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Weir than refers to Sandra Petronio, a professor of communication studies and director of the Communication Privacy Management Center at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. She states, “When parents snoop, they show mistrust,” (Petronio 2). Skyler Hawk, a social psychologist who studies adolescent development at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, adds, “isn’t likely to stay undercover for long. Most kids are more tech savvy than their parents. Odds are good they’ll discover those tracking apps and figure out how to hack the system—leaving their location-tracking phone in their locker when they ditch class, or setting up a second (secret) Instagram account”(Hawk 2). The two statements made by Hawk and Petronio are important because they explain how your child can finding other ways to be secretive and have them lose all trust in you due to spying. This is important because having a child lose trust in you is one of the worst things a parent can experience especially if they stop talking to you as much, which can lead to them running away and insecurities. This proves and shows that spying on your kids could have a multitude of consequences and outcomes. In the article …show more content…
In the essay, “The Undercover Parent” by Harlen Coben disagrees and points out that kids will gamble online and chat to pedos. In his essay he writes, “But when it comes to chatting with pedophiles or watching beheadings or gambling away their entire life savings,” (Coben 1). While there is a minimum amount of truth to this argument I strongly disagree because kids aren’t going to be into gambling money they worked hard for they most likely will spend it on junk food, and with pedophile encounters, kids aren’t as naive as before and if a predator was on Snapchat it would be very hard due to the person needs to send live pictures instead of from a picture screenshotted from the internet then sent. Mostly all kids who use social media will know red flags when texting someone. Kids nowadays are very techie and most of the kids know how to turn off their location or falsify their location. According to the article,“Parents Shouldn’t Spy on Their kids ” by Kristin Weir, the FBI started in the article, “figures, the violent crime rate dropped 48 percent between 1993 and 2011. Child death rates are down. Reports of missing children are at record lows” (FBI). This is crucial because it shows that either kids have become less gullible and
Weir than refers to Sandra Petronio, a professor of communication studies and director of the Communication Privacy Management Center at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. She states, “When parents snoop, they show mistrust,” (Petronio 2). Skyler Hawk, a social psychologist who studies adolescent development at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, adds, “isn’t likely to stay undercover for long. Most kids are more tech savvy than their parents. Odds are good they’ll discover those tracking apps and figure out how to hack the system—leaving their location-tracking phone in their locker when they ditch class, or setting up a second (secret) Instagram account”(Hawk 2). The two statements made by Hawk and Petronio are important because they explain how your child can finding other ways to be secretive and have them lose all trust in you due to spying. This is important because having a child lose trust in you is one of the worst things a parent can experience especially if they stop talking to you as much, which can lead to them running away and insecurities. This proves and shows that spying on your kids could have a multitude of consequences and outcomes. In the article …show more content…
In the essay, “The Undercover Parent” by Harlen Coben disagrees and points out that kids will gamble online and chat to pedos. In his essay he writes, “But when it comes to chatting with pedophiles or watching beheadings or gambling away their entire life savings,” (Coben 1). While there is a minimum amount of truth to this argument I strongly disagree because kids aren’t going to be into gambling money they worked hard for they most likely will spend it on junk food, and with pedophile encounters, kids aren’t as naive as before and if a predator was on Snapchat it would be very hard due to the person needs to send live pictures instead of from a picture screenshotted from the internet then sent. Mostly all kids who use social media will know red flags when texting someone. Kids nowadays are very techie and most of the kids know how to turn off their location or falsify their location. According to the article,“Parents Shouldn’t Spy on Their kids ” by Kristin Weir, the FBI started in the article, “figures, the violent crime rate dropped 48 percent between 1993 and 2011. Child death rates are down. Reports of missing children are at record lows” (FBI). This is crucial because it shows that either kids have become less gullible and