Is there a way to get access to my daughter's myspace?

Question

Like most parents of teenagers, i am concerned about my 15 yr old daughters internet use. We have talked to her many times about the dangers of the internet, but like most kids, she things we are over reacting. I want to monitor her myspace without her knowing. Is there any way at all to do this?

Answer 1

Get a key logger and attach it to her computer without her knowledge. You can see everything she types on her computer. This way you can get her passwords, too.

I had a keyghost - pretty cool.

Notice all the people who say it is an invasion of privacy are most likely not parents, but teens themselves. As former teens, we know you cannot just trust your teenage kids. Teens, no matter how mature and smart they are for thier age, have lapses of judgement and can be totally ignorant. It is a parents responsibility to monitor them and guide them - no matter what it takes.

Answer 2

Users who are 14 and 15 years old are required to have private profiles -- which means that you would not be able to see her profile if you created your own Myspace account and that no one over the age of 17 can see her profile either. If they lie about their age so that their profiles will be public, their accounts can be deleted.

The same goes for you. If you make a profile and lie about your age so that you can see her profile, your profile can be deleted as well. Myspace does not know the difference between a parent viewing their childs page and a predator viewing a childs page.

Honesty is the best policy in this case. If she has nothing to hide, then she should be able to show you her profile and her homepage. If for no other reason than to be able to say "See Mom??? I told you I could be trusted!!!"

Answer 3

You can just ask her. Snoopping around will cause her to not trust you. And if you are talking about the dangers of the internet with her, you probaly don't have much to worry about. She is 15, not 9. When the new talks about all the problems about myspace it's with kids that don't have parents that talk with them. And they just get the parents that care all freaked out. I bet you there are other things that you should worry about way more then something she knows about the dangers very well, thanks to you.

Answer 4

Like you, I have a daughter that has a myspace and I found out her password by clicking under tools on the top of your internet page, go to options, and go to the box that says passwords, there is a box that you need to have checked and that will save all the passwords that are needed to get into any account you access online, if that box is checked, right below it is a box that says view all saved passwords, click on that and then just look for her myspace address and it should tell you the password, then all you do is go on type in her email that she uses and then her password. If that box for the passwords is not checked, all you need to do is check it and wait for her to log in and then go back and retrieve the password when she is done. Good Luck!

Answer 5

Sneaking around and "spying" tends to make more problems. I would suggest that you make sure that you have a good relationship with your daughter and require that she shares this type of stuff with you. Build trust and relationship, be involved, be the parent, and understand that you are the one in charge. If she refuses to let you see it voluntarily, ban her from the computer. Without a respect for authority, kids will become a menace to society. We're already starting to see the fruits of this as the first set of this new generation has hit the marketplace.

I think underage sites on myspace are blocked to users viewing them without the owner oking it. You may not be able to view her page.

Answer 6

I think you have to create an account to get to view other people's accounts. But do it under a fake name, and then you can search for your daughter that way. I recently did this to spy on my 14 yr old little sister because she was hanging out with people that I knew could get her into trouble. Anyway, she really surprised me by how safe she was being on My Space. No one could find out any of her information if she didn't know them, and she deleted anyone off that she didn't personally know. (She even deleted me off!) I did get to check out her stuff for a little bit, and it was nothing. Who likes who and what new band is the best. Her favorite food and color and that sort of thing. She also had something about me being the best sister in the world! I almost cried. I would definitely check out your daughters My Space, but also remember that most teens who seem to be in trouble just want someone to think that. They are putting up a front. But good luck anyway.

Answer 7

The best advice I've heard for monitoring myspace is to make your own account. Then the rule is that your DD can only have her own account as long as you are on her friend's list. If she won't agree to the deal then cut off all computer time or unmonitored time.

You should be able to search for her page if you just want to spot check but you won't see anything she's posting as bulletins. You also may not see much of her page if she's set it to private already.

Answer 8

You will need your own MySpace account to search for people - but it is free and it will allow you to look at your daughters page (and her friend's pages as well) but like others have said - the computer should be in a public place and your daughter should know that you are checking on her activity.

Answer 9

i can see why you want to see her myspace page, but if she's responsible nothing bad is going to happen, if she knows she shouldnt meet strangers and talk to them she'll be fine.
you can also set the page to private so only people who she sets as friends can see it.



now i suggest not doing this but if you really feel you need to do this for her safety you could try this. but how would you like it if your parents are going all up in your business, i would reccomend not doing this but ...

if she has a screen name, teens often put the links of their myspace on their profile for their screen name, so if you know her screen name you can sighn up for the service she has and look at her profile, but you can only see her profile if she's online.


you could also go on myspace and search her email address
i dont think searching for her name is gonna get you anywhere because most smart teens would not put their real name on myspace.

Answer 10

my suggestion would be to create an account for yourself, search for her at the top of the page, if it lets you see her page that means she doesn't have it set on private. if this is the case, then talk to her about it, and check to see that she is not one of those people that just collect as many friends as they can, whether they know them or not, make her set it to where someone has to know her e-mail address or whole name to even send her a friend invitation, and make sure she's not putting personal information on her page.