KEEPING TABS ON YOUR KID’S SOCIAL MEDIA

According to a Pew study on parenting in the age of the internet, most parents still don’t trust their teenagers to be responsible online, with about half keeping tabs on at least one of their kid’s passwords. About 1,000 U.S. parent-teen pairs were surveyed about the child’s online usage. The results:
– 48% know the password to their teenager’s email account.
– 61% of parents reported looking at their child’s browsing history.
– 35% know the password to at least one of their kid’s social media accounts.
– 65% of parents reported they had taken away phone or internet privileges as punishment.
* Yeah, you know the password to the account they WANT you to know about.
* Five words. Little Dutch Boy, finger, dike.
* The real question is, how many teens know their parents’ passwords?
* Now think back to when you were young. How many times did you say, “It would kill my parents if they ever found out”?
* I’d say parents know around 17% of what goes on. Maybe 20% tops.
* The good thing about constantly spying on kids is that it’ll prepare them for life in the surveillance state.
* You know it’s coming. How long ’til the first parental spy drone?
* PHONE TOPIC: Does your kid know you know their password?