Parents, Teens and Digital Monitoring

Anderson, M. (7 January 2016). Parents, Teens, and Digital Monitoring.
Retrieved August 2, 2016
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According to Parents, Teens, and Digital Monitoring, parents are monitoring teens use of digital devices. The surveys demonstrated that parents are hands-on with monitoring. For example, 61% of parents say they have checked websites that are visited by their teens. 60% checked their teen's social media profiles, 56% have followed teen on Facebook, Twitter or other social platforms, and 48% looked through their teen's phone records and text messages.

Parents are learning passwords to emails, social sites and limiting the amount of time spent on the sites/devices. Although the monitoring is hands on the survey found that parents are less likely to block or track their kids. For example; 39% of parents report using parental controls for blocking, filtering or monitoring their teen's online activities, 16% use parental controls to restrict their teens's use of his or her cellphone, 16% use monitoring tools on their teen's cellphone to track their location. Although the use of technology based tools is low use, parents are active in teen's behavior through proactive approaches such as speaking on regular intervals about with is unacceptable online behavior.

The proactive talks focus on the following, 94% about online sharing of information, 95% about appropriate content for viewing online, 95% about what media to view through music, books, magazines or other media and 92% about their online behavior toward other users online.