Thread: Do you Snoop?
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Old 04-21-2005, 07:14 AM   #34 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Seeker
You know, ideally I would like to say I don't snoop. I would prefer to ask straight up.
The main conflict for me here is I would say I snoop when I monitor my daughters use on the computer. I check her history, cookies and such, I also have her msn messenger logging to a file she is not aware of. This is technically snooping. I do it to monitor influences and occurrences for safety and moral purposes, just the same way my father snooped in my room when I was a kid. He did it to see where I was at, he never used anything against me that he found, I was upset he snooped but ultimately I had to accept that anything he did find, I shouldn't have been doing it!
OK,
I need to qualify my previous answer. I did snoop on my daughters when they were teenagers, but I was very up front about doing it. I installed parental control software and logging software on the computer and demonstrated that I could find out everything they did. Our telephone billing was also set up to log all calls. While I rarely looked at the logs, I think knowing that dad could check up on them kept them out of trouble.

Is it snooping if you tell them you are doing it?
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