Sunday, November 24, 2013

If you"re not Spying, you are not a Good Parent

Teens are at risk from Texting While Driving, Online Predators and Gambling,CyberBullying and possible illegal sending of images Excessive Mobile Phone Use and much more. These new problems demand new techniques for dealing with them. Anyone that needs to keep up with how kids, employees or lover are using their mobiles needs to know about available mobile phone tracker software that is becoming extremely common and can do a lot more than locate cellphones. Brand new technology are prompting a vigorous discussion.


 Parental Monitoring


New mobile monitor software programs that incorporate client-side and web applications to capture SMS text messages, cell phone GPS location, sent and received cell phone activity logs information and sends it to an online private account or forwards it to an email address.


Smartphones are the cell phones with computer capabilities. Trade names such as BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia Symbian ? all have spyware software for sale. Spy Call and Call Intercept cell phone bugging require GSM networks. Millions of smartphones a month are sold in the United States and Canada, and sales are approaching 150 million delivered per year worldwide.


A recently published report by The Nielsen Company (Nielsen, the same people that do TV research) and the Pew Research Center indicate a handful of factors that are causing concern for parents and guardians. These issues also constitute an opportunity for solution developers. There is growth in the number of teens that own mobile phones, the amount of SMS text messaging they do, and more troubling the percentage of young people that are involved in ?sexting? ? the sending of potentially illegal sexual explicit images or text messages from cell phones.


According to a study from marketing research firm The Nielsen Company (blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/under-aged-texting-usage-and-actual-cost/) American teenagers transmit an unimaginable average of ten SMS texts per hour that they are not in school or sleeping ? and most likely a lot during their classes too. Teenagers were interviewed and gave Amanda Lenhart, Senior Research Specialist and author of the report various explanations behind the motivation to participate in zexting. These included the researcher?s interpretation that ??zexually suggestive images had become a form of relationship currency,?; that zexting images ?? are shared as a part of or instead of zexual activity,? and that SMS text message zexting is a way of starting or maintaining a relationship. Sensitive images are also passed along to other people ?? for their entertainment value, as a joke, or for fun.?



If you"re not Spying, you are not a Good Parent

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