Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
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Re: Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
#2It is even worse when schools try to make these mandatory “on behalf of the parents.”
Re: Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
#3Well, yes, of course. Teens want independence from their parents, and they have a natural predisposition to push boundaries.
Re: Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
#4>Both studies, which haven’t been published in a peer-reviewed journal, are set to be presented later this month at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems held in Montreal, Canada. Wisniewski says that the research was peer reviewed prior to its acceptance into the conference, though.
In CS, conferences are considered just as good as journals.
Re: Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
#5If it makes them study, why not!
Edit: This was a lame joke based on the original, broken title of this submission. I do not condone teen monitoring apps in any way.
Re: Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
#6When I was a young boy in the 90s, my libertarian aligned father let me use the computer and access the internet. He explained to me that I shouldn't visit certain type of sites, I should never give out my name or address and that he had software installed to monitor what happened on the computer. He explained that this wasn't a breach of trust between us as I was using his equipment and that I had to abide by his rules. He stated that at any time I was free to get a job or find a way to earn my own cash and purchase my own computer.
Re: Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
#7It is even worse when schools try to make these mandatory “on behalf of the parents.”
It's tricky -- teachers are in loco parentis, so does that also apply to equipment distributed by the school system? At any rate, I know it annoys the kids, but it gets them off to a good start circumventing technological lockdowns. So at least they're learning a valuable computer skill.
Re: Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
#8>Both studies, which haven’t been published in a peer-reviewed journal, are set to be presented later this month at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems held in Montreal, Canada. Wisniewski says that the research was peer reviewed prior to its acceptance into the conference, though. In CS, conferences are considered just as good as journals.
this is probably the most infuriating thing about academic CS, is condescension from people in every other field about this fact.
Re: Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
#9If it makes them study, why not! Edit: This was a lame joke based on the original, broken title of this submission. I do not condone teen monitoring apps in any way.
That’s a pretty big if
Re: Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
#10Well, yes, of course. Teens want independence from their parents, and they have a natural predisposition to push boundaries.
Agree, but I’d expand that to all humans.