Essay On Loss Of Privacy

“Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.” By Billy Graham. Privacy is very important to adults, as much as it is to us kids. Maybe even more. How would you feel if your parents- or better yet, your kids- started cyber-spying you, your every movement you made on the internet, every post, every text, every website. Everything. You would feel like there is no trust between you and them. That they don’t believe that you can make the right choices. Parents should not monitor their child's internet use.

According to the Constitution, Amendment 4 clearly states , “ The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” So, we all have the right to have our own privacy,

without our parents watching our every move on the internet. Basically, if parents do monitor their children, it better be for a good reason.

Parents have to let their children show a sign of maturity. Parents are overly protective when it comes to parent withholding. Why should you stock up your children? They got other work to do, and so do you. Plus, letting your child have a lonely life doesn’t let them have more confidence later. If you watch them like a hawk they lose confidence and that’s what you don’t want them to lose. You're basically building a barrier between them and the real world. Digital and physical. Which by the way, most kids only live in the digital world. Some because of personal issues at home and school, others because they just can. It’s a part of life. If they make mistakes, they’ll learn from them. They’ll need to mature up to the world.

There’s always a way around security. Now, of course you want to know if your child is getting into anything bad: talking with their friends about illegal drugs or drinking, planning to sneak out after curfew, talking to strangers on the Internet, etc. But the truth is, no matter how intently you watch their online activities, they will find ways around it. Students in mostly middle and high school find tactics to getting around security. Censorship is never perfect, and where there are cracks in the system, people will exploit it. So, it doesn’t matter, parents, if you know how to work the basics of today's technology, because teens know the internet better than most people, and they’ll find ways around security.

Cyber-spying is the wrong way to protect your child. However, I will agree that online predators are still a threat. The best way to deal with this problem, though, isn’t to block your children’s access to social media, networks, and instant messengers, or spy on them. The best way to protect your children, is to talk to them and warn them about the dangers of people on the internet who aren’t who they say they are online. Your children are smarter than you give them credit for, and educating them rather than spying on them shows that you respect and trust them.
Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.” I think what Billy Graham meant to say, was “you shouldn’t ever lose your privacy because it’s so valuable.” Nobody, adult or child, teen or senior, should ever lose their online privacy.

Even privacy in general. Kids these days need internet. Others just use it to get away from the real world. But spying on them worsen the situation. Your kids will lose their confidence and their mutual trust with you. Instead of making the issue worse by spying on them,, simply talk to them about the dangers, risks, and websites on the internet. What would you rather have? A child, with no confidence and mutual trust towards you and many others, afraid to do anything because they know that you’ll spy on them. Or, a child who is proud to be your child, who is able to talk to you about it, and control how and when to use the internet, because you reasoned with them and gave them some closure. Think about

it.