How do i check my children's Myspace/other accounts?

Question

My children are on Myspace a lot, and i try to discourage them from doing so. I don't want them to know i'm checking it because then they would not talk to those that they do, i want to see what they say and do so that if they were to talk to this person i'd be able to punish them from doing it, otherwise they could find another secret way to talk to online predators, i hardly know whats going on on their myspace/other accounts. Any programs i can use over my home network to check? Thank you so much.

Also keep in mind, their accounts are on private, but i'm still not sure if they could be talking to strangers.

Yes "Exploited" not explicited, i was in a hurry.

Answer 1

If you want to check their site without them knowing, they have to have their profile set so that is is NOT private. If it is not private and if you have access to their computer then just look in their favorites or at their internet history and get their screenname. then just go to myspace and search for their myspace name. If you don't have their myspace name you can try just searching myspace with their real name. Some kids don't hide anything. You can search myspace by their school name. There are lots of ways to search within myspace. If you have Windows XP and logins for each user set up you can go into your C drive, look for the documents and settings folder and then your childs username, then look in the favorites folder under their name and they should have their myspace URL saved. Hope this helps. My advice is to ask them to set their profile to private so that no sicko's can try to gain their trust. Good Luck


There are keylogging programs available that will show you what they type, since you added that they have their profile set to private you can't see anything unless you set up your own myspace account and have them add you as a friend. We did that for our 16 & 17 year olds and told them if they did not add us as a friend they would lose the computer until they let us see what they were doing and who they were talking to. This way we get to keep tabs on not only our own kids, but a good portion of their friends.

Answer 2

Well a quick way you probably can check to see what they are doing on myspace, is on the toolbar, you'll see a word call history it'll be right beside search, just click on that and it'll bring you a variety of websites up from the past, just click on what you wanna see and that way you'll know.

Answer 3

There is a reason that you have to be fourteen to be able to use myspace. At fourteen you should have established a moral system that enables you to make good decisions for yourself.

if you think that your children need more parental control and do not posses the characteristics that allow you to trust them online, you should forbid it all together. You should definately NOT be sneaking behind their backs to check on them. This will only cause them to distrust you and possibly resent your dishonesty.

Answer 4

This is likely to be a controversial response and unpopular with the younger set. As parents we are responsible for safeguarding our kids (minors in our care.) There is no legal "right" of privacy for minors concerning parental monitoring of internet usage. For that matter, there is no "right" of privacy for adults while using computers/internet provided by their employers. That said, my approach with my kids has always been to tell them that I love them, I trust them, but they should be sure not to bring things into the home they don't want us to know about, and not to use the phone or internet to do things they wouldn't want us to know about. They may use the things we provide for them knowing this and understanding that we will occasionally check things out for accountability. I've always been up front about this, but it still has occasionally resulted in surprises. There are internet monitoring products like "Big Brother" that are very effective and can record keystrokes (including passwords), screen shots, all chats, all web sites and activities. Some permit remote monitoring and reports on your home computer usage from another computer. This is an effective way to allow usage of the internet and to allow the kids to decide whether or not to be trustworthy. Face it, if you monitor for awhile and they are trustworthy, will you still feel the need to keep checking on them? It may be enough for them to know the monitoring is in place. Monitoring is unpopular with the kids, but it is responsible and it is effective. "Snooping" for the sake of snooping is just plain a bad idea. Verifying that the kids are abiding by your boundaries, communicated in advance, is good parenting.

Answer 5

in order that which you comprehend If i found out that my mom and father have been invading my privateness like that i'd be incredibly mad at them; i comprehend you have their ultimate hobbies at heart yet they'd think of you're basically removing their exciting, which you form of contain. you may believe your little ones to make their very own judgements via fact us little ones comprehend greater approximately what's ultimate for us than you think of. yet once you're desperate to provide up your little ones from employing Myspace attempt to offer them ideas like going to the flicks with acquaintances or something.

Answer 6

the best way is to just block it altogether. kids can be subjected to idiots who go after children i have it completely blocked from my PC the best treatment is to not let them use it at all that is my opinion.

Answer 7

all you have to do is go click on the search tab on the myspace.com website, and search up their name... And, that's only if you child uses his/her real name.