although being sick is kind of awful, i am given the opportunity to watch good morning america. today they featured a family who is now taking advantage of OnlineFamily.Norton, which was made so "non-techy" parents could see what their kids do online. it shows your child's online history, and potentially worrisome things show up in red, which is kind of cool, and is more effective than just showing a list of different urls. what i am not so keen on is that they can check social networking profiles and read IM conversations. i mean, if a parent has something to worry about in an IM conversation, then yeah i guess it's okay for them to read it, but a large part of what i talk to my friends about, online and in real life, might not be inappropriate, but might not be something i feel comfortable having my parents read. i don't want my mom referencing an IM conversation i had last night. the motive of this particular program is that if kids know their parents are watching, they're more likely to talk about it irl. i do not know how true this is. i feel like this program will only make kids paranoid that even if they accidentally come upon an inappropriate website, their parents might mistake it as intentional.
maybe they'll check back with the example family and see how it goes.
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