What happens when your prying parents go beyond the questions and start spying on you? In this highly technological age, it is hard to protect you privacy online and elsewhere. For example, I can personally confirm that my father read my text messages on my phone and logged into my social media accounts like facebook, email, and twitter. Hopefully, none of you out there have this issue, but if you do, here's my advice: confront them. They will either apologize and stop their snooping or deny that they spy on you. If the latter happens and they insist on acting like a little kid, turn it into a game. Rather than fret over your privacy, if you can't stop it, send yourself messages that you know will make no sense to anyone snooping. For instance, I sometimes email myself a message containing only one word, usually, "bologna" or "wow". While it doesn't stop your parent's from spying on you, it may help them realize their foolishness.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Prying Parents
In too many cases, your parents might try to make you tell them about each other. Whether these inquiries are disguised as casual questions, shouted, or raised at a family discussion, you may not always be comfortable answering them. First, tell your parents how you feel about these questions. Hopefully, they will respect you enough to let their questions drop. If that's not the case, never answer their questions just because you are pressured. You can always just say no.
What happens when your prying parents go beyond the questions and start spying on you? In this highly technological age, it is hard to protect you privacy online and elsewhere. For example, I can personally confirm that my father read my text messages on my phone and logged into my social media accounts like facebook, email, and twitter. Hopefully, none of you out there have this issue, but if you do, here's my advice: confront them. They will either apologize and stop their snooping or deny that they spy on you. If the latter happens and they insist on acting like a little kid, turn it into a game. Rather than fret over your privacy, if you can't stop it, send yourself messages that you know will make no sense to anyone snooping. For instance, I sometimes email myself a message containing only one word, usually, "bologna" or "wow". While it doesn't stop your parent's from spying on you, it may help them realize their foolishness.
What happens when your prying parents go beyond the questions and start spying on you? In this highly technological age, it is hard to protect you privacy online and elsewhere. For example, I can personally confirm that my father read my text messages on my phone and logged into my social media accounts like facebook, email, and twitter. Hopefully, none of you out there have this issue, but if you do, here's my advice: confront them. They will either apologize and stop their snooping or deny that they spy on you. If the latter happens and they insist on acting like a little kid, turn it into a game. Rather than fret over your privacy, if you can't stop it, send yourself messages that you know will make no sense to anyone snooping. For instance, I sometimes email myself a message containing only one word, usually, "bologna" or "wow". While it doesn't stop your parent's from spying on you, it may help them realize their foolishness.
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