teen internet monitoring

There was a leak on the news a couple of days ago about how the NSA was monitoring their citizens without their permission. Not only the NSA is known to monitoring internet use, Company’s now can use profile web pages to decide if they want to hire someone for employment. Even some schools use places like Facebook, Instagram, and twitter to find the source of pranks, planned fights, and behavioral issues at school. Some parents are even monitoring teens without them knowing on personal social medias which to some people is a violation to privacy. Some of the words found can even be taken out of context putting a person into serious trouble. At other time those days that a person may take to the internet to blow off steam about a test, or a boss, or a person can unknowingly have harsh consequences in the future. Teen are some of the most frequent internet users. Majority of teens are on public websites like Facebook, Instagram, vine, and twitter as they use the internet they open themselves to being monitored without knowing it from an employer, to a teacher, to a parent. As a person reaches the age of a teen they should have the capable abilities to notice right from wrong they should not need to have an adult or government observing their access. With them being able to distinguish bad from good parents need to trust in teen’s ability to make the right decision. Monitoring teens is invading someone’s privacy and can have bad effect on a teen’s personal behavior.

Some parents take it to the extreme to make sure they know what their teen is doing at all times by signing up for accounts on social websites for the sole purpose to observing post updates of their teen. This can lead to miss interpretation of information typed on socia...

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...cap them in their future experiences on the internet and even in some cases of endangering their lives because they cannot see the danger of internet use or what they post for themselves.

It is time we start giving our teen the ability to make mistakes and learn from them. While monitoring a teen may have its positive side the problems that come with monitoring teens develop later down the road. For if teen monitoring continues, our society’s teens can and may suffer from misuse of social internet that may reach into adulthood becoming worse, and possibly effecting future generations with the same issue. Teen monitoring to some may look like a viable option to protecting teens, but reconsider for the sake of teens and their future. Letting a teen know about the risk of social media can and is one of the best step to prevent internet misuse and damaging their future.