Teens should be monitored online sometimes, but it is extremely important for teens to have privacy. This argument is thriving, and will continue to for many years, for there are both sides presented in this quarrel. The teens can build a sense of trust from the parents not watching over them at all times; on the other hand, if the guardian does not watch their child at least periodically it could lead to the teen feeling free and starting to do wrong. Some people are in agreement with being able to monitor teens; for example, Jim Beeghley, an instructional technology coordinator and Ed.D, challenged this belief of privacy by implying, “We pay for the phone, it’s not really yours, and if I want to look at the text messages, I can… It’s not a discipline thing, it’s a responsibility thing. If you get into the work world, your boss owns your email.” Another person who thinks that this is a plausible solution to the problem of teens is Dr Pate, who says, “Teenagers are already easily self-conscious and easily affected by what others say.” The teens start to feel depressed when called negative things, but if the parent is …show more content…
Yalda Uhls, a development psychologist, believes, “You create greater danger than what’s out there online when you try to control every single aspect of a teenager’s life, to track where they are and take their phones and read their texts.” Also, Michael Brody, a child psychiatrist, says, “If you have to spy on your kids, something’s wrong… What works to get kids on the right track is the bond between the parent and the child, and that’ much stronger than any punishment or anything else. If there is a bond, and the parent expresses disappointment, that’s very important.” These experts believe that the parents need to build a great relationship with their kids in order for the child to be disappointed in themselves when their parents are disappointed in
The expansion of the Internet infrastructure across the world, has brought an increased audience. Which has provided expanded markets for businesses and exploited new opportunities. There are virtually countless social sites and media used by individuals to access and share experiences , content, insights, and perspectives. Parents today tend to believe they should spy on their kids online activity. I argue parents should respect the privacy of a child's social life and his/her internet activity.
Online predators, pornography, drug trafficking, piracy, and hate sites are just some of the dangers that a child can face on the internet. The article “The Undercover Parent” by Harlan Coben states that parents should use spyware to monitor their children. Coben argues that parents should be able to know what is in their children’s lives. he believes that spyware can prevent children from being targeted by internet predators on social networking sites and even prevent children from being cyber bullied. I agree with Coben’s claim that parents should consider using spyware as a protection for their teens online. There are many possible dangers facing children on the internet and it is essential that parents install spyware.
...traying these situations is supported by the fact that 73% of teens are on a social network and 55% of teens have given out personal information to someone they don’t know, including photos and physical descriptions (Taylor). Parents see this as a threat because they can’t monitor what their children do 24/7 due to 67% of teens knowing how to hide what they do online from parents and only 34% of parents actually checking their social networks (Thomas). However, the circumstance still comes to a government threat when predators break the law of being involved with a minor, along with bullies triggering self-harm like suicide and cutting to their victims.
I don’t agree with Coben when he says to an extant. Everyone can be dangerous and if you don’t monitor it all then anything could happen. Your teenager could be texting this guy who starts saying rude things which ends up with your teen suiciding or becoming depressed. Any irrelevant things you could just block out and not pay as much attention to, but you need to keep your child monitored. It’s easy to stray from safe when everywhere around safe websites are dangerous. Teenagers are curious leading them to try new things. So, they can easily start talking to a stranger, thinking it’s a friend, want to meet them then get kidnapped and murdered. See, what if that was your child and you thought they were just a friend in their texts and disregarded
Many minors have social media networks and smartphones that are relatively easy for them to use. In Let Kids Run Wild Online, Danah Boyd is stating that there should not be any “helicopter parents” who watch the every move of their child online. I completely agree with Boyd’s statement and think that minors should be able to feel independant without their parents monitoring their online activities. By not monitoring their child, there will be many benefits such as a better open relationship with child and parent, the child will know how to ask for help when needed, the child will aso know how to use technology in this technology-soaked world and the child will have better social and interaction skill
While not always seen, overall, teenagers get far less privacy than adults do. Between schools checking through the belongings of their students without solid evidence to allow it, or parents monitoring the activity of their children online, teenagers today are subject to much of their privacy being taken away. It is true that this can sometimes be helpful in busting drug dealers or keeping teenagers from getting involved with bad habits online. However, it can also have an adverse effect, ruining the relationship between a parent and his or her child, or other relationships throughout the rest of the teenager’s life. Teenagers should be allowed more privacy, if not as much as adults have, as it will keep them less fearful, as well as help to keep their interpersonal relationships strong and their emotions in a good state.
There are many definitions with regards to leadership, but what defines 'effective leadership' and how is it evaluated? Chemers (2000) explained that effective leadership is "follower satisfaction and group performance." (p. 28) G. Yukl expalined "there is no correct definition of leadership; it is only a matter of how useful it is increasing our understanding of effective leadership."(Yukl) How does an organization establish effective leadership? While some leaders of organizations direct considerable resources to find, train, and mentor managers to be effective leaders, many leaders of organizations put little research into the subject of effective leadership. Whatever the organization's policy on selecting the leadership group is, such as to promote from within or to hire from outside, most organization's leaders make decisions without a full understanding of leadership theories. The missing aspect that many leaders and developers of leaders ignore is that the construct of leadership is not an individual endeavor, but rather one that must include the organization as a whole. Leadership is not just the sum characteristics of an individual (leader) but should include the leaders, the followers, dyadic relationships, and group relationships. Hogg and Terry (2000) explained that "organizations are internally structured groups that are located in complex networks of intergroup relations..." (p. 121).
New iPhone-applications such as “teen tracker” and “MamaBear” appear to be quite useful for parents. These applications are capable of tracking the adolescent’s locations on a map and therefore make the parents know where their kids are at every moment. Additionally they activate the phone’s camera, for recording audio and video, respectively. Dr. Keith Ablow, who is a psychiatrist, has a relatively negative perspective on these apps, as they can cause implications. He says among other things that it is a license for teenagers to not to be responsible for what they do, and for their parents so they can see what their kids are doing, and not be concerned about their behavior. According to Dr. Keith Ablow, we have to get back to a place where people actually communicate and where you are capable of looking your teenager in the eye and know whether we are dealing with a responsible individual or not. He, however, states that under certain circumstances it may be okay for parents to use these apps.
Introduction: Harlen Coben in an editorial titled”’The Undercover Parent’’ (March 16,2008). Coben states that a parent was looking at what her 15 year-old son was looking at.Another thing Coben states is that parents are now hooking up spyware on their computer or cell phone.
How would you feel if someone you trusted secretly collected personal information about you? Would you feel safe knowing your personal information could, one day, be used against you? Today, many kids are facing this problem. Kids are facing the problem of having their privacy stripped away from them. But, by whom, what?
How many of you know what social media is? I bet I’ll get “duh” looks by saying this because majority of the people know what social media is. How many of you have at least 3 social media accounts? Again, majority of us can relate to this also. Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter are all popular social media sites.
However, sensitive information that may be shared might later embarrass the children as they grow older and realize what is available on the internet. Such events may result in resentment and misunderstandings on both the children and the parents’ sides. According to Steinberg (2017) in “Sharenting: Children’s Privacy in the Age of Social Media,” there have been long-term issues and conflicts regarding parental sharing and whether children have the right to control what is shared about them. Another long-term problem raised by parental sharing is the idea of data collecting. Per “Children’s Privacy in the Big Data Era: Research Opportunities,” “These trends raise serious concerns about digital dossiers that could follow young people into adulthood, affecting their access to education, employment, healthcare, and financial services. Although US privacy law provides some safeguards for children younger than 13 years old online, adolescents are afforded no such protections” (Montgomery, Chester, & Milosevic, 2017, p.
With the advancement in technology in a short matter of time it has impacted the world in many ways such as how the world communicates and our life styles. One of the many revolutionary inventions or evolutions is called social networking sites (SNS). Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and many more, are where people gather in the internet, create a personalized profile about themselves, and interact with people around the world. With the lack of parental supervision between the ages of fourteen to seventeen, which makes one of largest demographics using social networking sites, these teens could be subjected to mature elements. Young teens between the ages of fourteen to seventeen should not be allowed to have a profile on social networking sites because they do not have the capability to make proper logical decisions.
These individuals feel that it is an invasion of the teenagers’ right to privacy and the development of their trustworthiness. Kay Mathieson states “only by giving children privacy will they come to see their thoughts as something that belongs to them – to which they have an exclusive right.” In the United States and according to the law, monitoring the internet usage of a minor does not break any laws and is a moral obligation of the parent. Trustworthiness is an important development of a child to learn in order to develop genuine relationships with others in the lifetime. “Not only does monitoring have the great potential to undermine the trust of the child in the parent, and thus to undermine trust in others more generally, it also has the potential to undermine the capacity of the child to be worth of trust” (Mathieson). If the parent has not already had conversations with the teenager about monitoring internet usage and the parent is not telling the child about the monitoring, there is already an issue with the development of trustworthiness in the teenager. There was already a failure of development of this skill before the internet or internet monitoring was introduced.
Human’s life has changed. Most of the people have come to cities instead of towns. Kids spend most of their time inside houses either watching TV or playing computer and maybe do their homework. Internet is one of the most recent changes in the last two decays. Not surprisingly, this new phenomenon is perhaps one of the greatest inventions of the last century, but unfortunately this occurrence has made some negative impact on our society and children.