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Monitoring Teenagers' Internet and Social Media Usage

By Sarena Straus, Esq.

As someone who writes book for teenagers but who also used to prosecute sex crimes, I've been thinking a lot about the arguments for an against monitoring teen usage of the Internet and social media.  When I was a prosecutor in the Bronx, social media was just coming onto the scene along with dating sites, chat boards, etc.  Even in its infancy, we were fast seeing the dark side of technology as teens were lured to dates with people who weren't who they claimed to be or ran off in the night to rendezvous with someone they'd met on line, often in other states.  Sometimes things went very bad and the Internet trail was the only way to find them.  Thank God even back then, we had some hackers at our disposal.Things have only gotten worse and most teenagers are far more technologically savvy than the parents who are trying to snoop...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prosecutor Postscript on March 14, 2012 (boomark / email).