Anyone who went through the teenage years know how easy it is to slip up and destroy your life in that young age, just by hanging with the wrong people. Now that everything is easily recorded via picture and video and shared its a lot worse. Many people did things in their teenage years that they regretted it big time later on, and if there was better guidance they might have not walked through that slippery road.
So true! Anyone... adult or child... can destroy their lives so easily now, with their misdeeds being broadcast all over and recorded forever. But adults are legally responsible for themselves. Children are not.
That being said, turning into Big Brother is not the solution. It remains a parenting problem.
Monitoring **IS** part of parenting. And it can make a huge difference.
I'm not going to go into details, but my daughter was saved from school punishments and possible legal action, because I had a copy of all her texts and was able to prove that she did not do what she was accused of.... someone else did.
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As for the bad application, it's become normal with all the offshore cheap programmers being used to "save money".