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Noob Question... Does your iphone bill show all of the websites you've visited?
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well umm i don't have that particular problem...I'm on a stupid family plan bs too (i'm gonna get my own plan soon i hope). But yeah lately my psychotic father has been checking on every phone call i recieve or make every message every little thing i do on my iphone....(so i resorted to not even using the damn thing). I don't text but i used mobile yahoo messnger to talk with/message friends instead. I thought this was fool proof cuz it's free won't be charged onto the bill....well apparently it shows up on the stupid bill that i sent out multimedia (something like that) messages and shows that i recieve them too the actual messages aren't shown but it acknowledges/records the fact that i'm sending messages through yahoo messenger. Is this really possible? i'd like to know... i just don't want to use my phone anymore...paranoid. It's not that i do anything wrong or innapropriate....i just don't like this invasion of my privacy... it's for lack of better words ****ing annoying!!
Disagree
I disagree for these reasons:
I think parents have a responsibility to protect their children. Monitoring internet usage is no different than being aware of who your child leaves home with or goes to see. A kid (your word) is still developing physically, mentally and emotionally and requires supervision to guide him/her to "growing up" (your term). As we all know, there are many predatory things that take place on the internet.
Also, kids aren't as skeptical on the internet as most adults are. If financial information or other personal data is stored on the computer, identity theft is a huge concern for most adults and they are more skilled at recognizing suspicious websites and emails than kids are.
You know, if I am to ever become a dad, I would never install spyware on my family computer. What's the point? Who doesn't watch porn? It's part of the natural growing up process. As long as the kid's not addicted to it, it's fine. Installing spyware is like sending a message - "I don't trust you." It just doesn't help foster a healthy parent-child relationship IMO.
I disagree for these reasons:
I think parents have a responsibility to protect their children. Monitoring internet usage is no different than being aware of who your child leaves home with or goes to see. A kid (your word) is still developing physically, mentally and emotionally and requires supervision to guide him/her to "growing up" (your term). As we all know, there are many predatory things that take place on the internet.
Also, kids aren't as skeptical on the internet as most adults are. If financial information or other personal data is stored on the computer, identity theft is a huge concern for most adults and they are more skilled at recognizing suspicious websites and emails than kids are.
Yeah but you can take it into the bathroom with you and run the shower >_>
Not4u2c: I'm 20, and I grew up with the internet. His opinion will NOT change, I think. All it took for me was this:
"Hey mom, it says we won a prize!"
"Don't click on that, it's trying to trick you, you didn't really win a prize."
"Oh....okay."
I remember downloading grainy 30-second clips and converting them to be played on my PSP, then doing just that. Ah, the good old days...? Six or seven years ago.
I'm only 20, I'm no parent, but Soreo's parents are still crossing the line. I can understand their perspective, but honestly, by the time I have kids, I don't think there will be any hope of protecting them from the internet. My 5-year-old son will stumble onto a blocked website, and will probably be intrigued by it. Everyone will have an internet phone by then, and everyone will grow up using the internet. Society will change. "Ah, I can't remember what that movie was called..." It used to stop there. Now: "Oh, here it is, I pulled it up on Google."
Is there any evidence to suggest that a child's mind is seriously screwed up by stumbling onto some triple-penetration porn? I mean, I don't want my kid watching it, but I wonder how damaging it really is.
Your parents can't see, but if you are searching on WIFI, your ISP can backtrace it. They only really do bandwith checks for large items and it's rare that they do it. Mostly, they do it for pervert and pedophiles and such.
Why do people resort to the lowest common denominator, and assume that the inevitable mentions of porn are amusing or original? Seriously, try a little harder - you're (supposedly) more intelligent than that, yes?
You don't have to *spy* on your kids to ensure their safety. My parents had a pretty trusting relationship with me. Even before broadband was available, they got me my own phone line and computer when I was 10 (I'm 20 now) and basically just taught me common sense. E.g., not to tell any strangers where I live. They always trusted me to do the right thing, and they're open enough parents that I don't feel the need to lie to them about anything I do. That's not to say I never had conflict with them - I did; I was a teenager afterall. But looking back, they were definitely very reasonable people and I'm thankful for that.
But yea, they taught me the right things and trusted me to follow through. I never got kidnapped, I don't engage in substance abuse, and I have a pretty high GPA in college right now (3.7 with a very science-intense work load). My point is you can raise kids properly without spying on them. Just like you're not always going to know with certainty exactly where it is that they go when they hang out with their friends, you can't always know everything they do online. In fact, some of the "worse" kids I know are those who were overly scrutinized by their parents.
And yes I know this is an old thread. I just wanted to give my $0.02
So are you sure there is no way they can actually know? Because ive tried it before, ended up getting caught somehow, still not sure if they just saw the history in my phone or if showed up on the bill, that's why I'm asking
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If they have a computer install it on theirs, and then blackmail your dad.
Like a boss!
You just scared me for a second there. I'm like, "oh **** on toast!"Wirelessly posted (iPhone 16GB: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F108 Safari/525.20)
Yeah, it lists all the pages you've been to and how long you spent on them.
Only joking - it only lists the
amount of data, not which dodgy sites you've been visiting
Well of course. It details the exact url and gives a screen shot of each page you were on. Videos give a short 3 second preview with audio and the front camera usually turns on while in safari so they often send a pic of your face while browsing
Haha I kid I kid.
The answer is no.
Congratulations, you are now the 4th Newbie to resurrect this thread which started in 2008. Please proceed to the claims department to receive your prize!!!
If a company issue you the phone though they can have tracking software on it to see that stuff. But if this is just a parent paying your bill...you should be fine.
OP - Hope you are using a private window in safari or using a browser that doesn't track history. If you use iCloud on your computer and your iPhone - Safari history might be transferring in the background.
Are we all (but one) ignoring the fact that this topic is from the stone-age and thus irrelevant?
Fine by me, it's a very funny thread.
Hey OP, who cares what kind of porn you watch, show it to the world!
Fine by me, it's a very funny thread.
Hey OP, who cares what kind of porn you watch, show it to the world!