When people say that parents monitor your history,i think that is not true. is it?

Question

huh?

Answer 1

It can be, but it's also very easy to get around.

The easiest way is usually just to download a second browser. Show them your I.E. history, and use Firefox for everything that matters, for instance. Easy, but not very secure.

STUPID easy on a Mac. Safari has this neat feature called "private browsing." Do whatever you please. It leaves no history, accepts no cookies, doesn't record your search engine terms, /nothing/. Just remember to turn it off once in a while and fill your history with something inane to make up the difference. It's more suspicious if you have no history at all.

Why do I advocate these things? Because that kind of snooping is an act of disrespect towards you, and cowardice in themselves.

It means they don't trust you, first and foremost, and so have to spy on you to make sure you're not visiting sites they don't "approve" of.

It also means they don't trust themselves to have taught you good judgement enough not to visit sites that will put you in danger.

Protect your privacy, protect your good name, and use /actual/ common sense instead of just following what they "approve" of.

Answer 2

Many parents monitor their kid's history.

But its really not a lack of trust in my opinion as one person here has suggested.

Its not about visiting sites that I do or dont approve as that person also suggested.

Its because you are a teenager, and the internet is a very very very adult world.  I dont mean about p**n or myspace or whatever.  I mean....  well, for one there are tons of scams on the net.  It looks great, sounds great.  You sign up for it and next thing you know I am getting billed for hundreds of dollars of c**p because you didnt recoginze the signs that it was a scam.  Now, thats nothing bad towards you, I only know the signs because I have been bit by them before myself.

Or that really awesome girlfriend you have been having girl talk for hours upon hours over the last couple weeks...   You think she is who she says she is because everything she says adds up, and no one could really  make all that c**p up.  I see something suscipicious, do a lil searching and find out its the convicted s*x offender that lives down the street.

Or, for example, my cousin was getting ready to order this cool game off a site online.  He thought it was a good site because they said money back garunteed within 14 days.  He was going to order it.  When I looked at the site....   The only contact info was a fill in web form.  No phone number, no address, and no email address.  Their terms of service was a load of bs that basically said you had to notify them of for refund within 14 days of purchase, in order to get the correct forms to mail back.  From the date of purchase...  That means that you really only have a couple days if that after you receive it.  

The site was a total scam. He would have bought it if someone else hadnt checked it out.  

Its not always about a lack of trust, its about the teen having a lack of life experience to know what to look for, how to look.

Answer 3

My son is 13 Yes I do. Sometimes kids get talked into things and pressured online. Im just watching his back

Answer 4

browsing history on comp?? most parents check this out and monitor it! unless you clear it b/f they can??

Answer 5

I hope not.... I don't look at anything insanely inappropriate but I don't want my parents looking at all of my private stuff =\

Answer 6

Your web history?  Sure they can.  I check my kids' from time to time to make sure they're not visting sites I don't approve of.

It doesn't mean all parents do, though.  Some don't know how.