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So I heard something horrifying today,
one of the ladies I work with was talking about the message setup on iphones compared to 'classic' formats (for those who haven't seen the iPhone, it places all the messages from/to a person in one "file" with their name on it. So you go to messages and select a person and it has a running convo back and forwards between you and that person.) She was saying how due to the massive storage on a phone, it is much easier for people to locate your conversations witha particular person, and much more likely you'll have a long log of them.
That wasn't horrifying, what was horrifying is that she mentioned in this conversation that she regularly checks the messages on her son's phone to make sure "everythings going ok at school" I don't know about you guys but if I caught my parents going through my email/phone back when i was in highschool I would have hit the roof. I understand concerned parents wanting to keep an eye on their kids, but invading the kids privacy isn't the way to go about this. How is a kid going to think that they can approach their parents if they know they're disrespecting their ability to chose what they do and don't tell them.
And, whats more it was disturbing how casually she just mentioned this to me. As if really any self respecting parent would do this. Does this seem normal to anyone else? I've only really seen it from one side and it would have been a bad idea if my parents did it to me, but maybe other people are different.
one of the ladies I work with was talking about the message setup on iphones compared to 'classic' formats (for those who haven't seen the iPhone, it places all the messages from/to a person in one "file" with their name on it. So you go to messages and select a person and it has a running convo back and forwards between you and that person.) She was saying how due to the massive storage on a phone, it is much easier for people to locate your conversations witha particular person, and much more likely you'll have a long log of them.
That wasn't horrifying, what was horrifying is that she mentioned in this conversation that she regularly checks the messages on her son's phone to make sure "everythings going ok at school" I don't know about you guys but if I caught my parents going through my email/phone back when i was in highschool I would have hit the roof. I understand concerned parents wanting to keep an eye on their kids, but invading the kids privacy isn't the way to go about this. How is a kid going to think that they can approach their parents if they know they're disrespecting their ability to chose what they do and don't tell them.
And, whats more it was disturbing how casually she just mentioned this to me. As if really any self respecting parent would do this. Does this seem normal to anyone else? I've only really seen it from one side and it would have been a bad idea if my parents did it to me, but maybe other people are different.