Would you lilke to keep tabs on your kids via GPRS?
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I thought I read an article this morning (but cannot find it again) where parents are forbidden from taking photos of their teens at their prom as the photos might end up on social media sights.
What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)
What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)
ali_kat said:
Phew, at 21 I was worried you were like the interns I'm dealing with... Can read, cannot comprehend. Can write, cannot spell. Have been molly coddled, have no common sense!
This thread is the result!!
I am glad to say that I am the exact opposite! R2T2 said:
I think that the media to blow it ridiclously out of proportion and basically terrify parents into molly coddling their kids through fear of them being adducted or something along those lines.
Absolutely!This thread is the result!!
I am a 21 year old with common sense, and when it comes to money too!
Kateg28 said:
I thought I read an article this morning (but cannot find it again) where parents are forbidden from taking photos of their teens at their prom as the photos might end up on social media sights.
What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)
I know that some my friends that are parents have been told not to take photos of Nativity plays/School Sports day etc!What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)
Moonhawk said:
ali_kat said:
I know that some my friends that are parents have been told not to take photos of Nativity plays/School Sports day etc!
I suspect such policies are borne more out the fear of litigation than fear of abuse.ali_kat said:
Kateg28 said:
I thought I read an article this morning (but cannot find it again) where parents are forbidden from taking photos of their teens at their prom as the photos might end up on social media sights.
What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)
I know that some my friends that are parents have been told not to take photos of Nativity plays/School Sports day etc!What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)
If the violent/unstable parent/adult had an inkling of the approximate area of where the family where currently living then it wouldn't be too much of an internet trawl to dig up more specific information.
Tenuous, yes. But a very real situation for far too many.
ali_kat said:
Kateg28 said:
I thought I read an article this morning (but cannot find it again) where parents are forbidden from taking photos of their teens at their prom as the photos might end up on social media sights.
What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)
I know that some my friends that are parents have been told not to take photos of Nativity plays/School Sports day etc!What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)
WestyCarl said:
The explanation for this at my kids school was that they have some kids that are "at risk" and they need to protect them and don't want them appearing in the background, etc.
Yes, I've had students who were given new identities because a parent was likely to harm them if they were found.Carthage said:
WestyCarl said:
The explanation for this at my kids school was that they have some kids that are "at risk" and they need to protect them and don't want them appearing in the background, etc.
Yes, I've had students who were given new identities because a parent was likely to harm them if they were found.What harm can the tracking device do if installed (without knowledge) on the child (child's phone) prior to the removal of the child?
ali_kat said:
Dr Murdoch said:
I could see the benefit up until the age when they can go off with friends. Mine are 2 and 3, and it would be useful to have the comfort that if they did disappear from sight that you could quickly locate them, be it in a supermarket, high street wherever. Its not happened to me, but I have seen the sheer panic in other parents faces when they have lost sight of their toddler.
When they grow older I hope they are brought up sufficiently well enough to be trusted.
You'd give a toddler a phone? When they grow older I hope they are brought up sufficiently well enough to be trusted.
https://www.thetileapp.com/
Not a total solution, I admit, but would assist with line-of-sight issues.
Don said:
No need.
https://www.thetileapp.com/
Not a total solution, I admit, but would assist with line-of-sight issues.
That, IMHO, is even more dangerous in the outline by Carthage!https://www.thetileapp.com/
Not a total solution, I admit, but would assist with line-of-sight issues.
A friend of mine has two boys 11 and 12, they are of an age where they are starting to go off on there bikes ect and they both have iPhones, the parents have hidden find my friends app in a folder so they don't know it's there, it is handy if they are late back to find out where they are.
I would probably do the same when my boy is older.
I would probably do the same when my boy is older.
steve_bmw said:
A friend of mine has two boys 11 and 12, they are of an age where they are starting to go off on there bikes ect and they both have iPhones, the parents have hidden find my friends app in a folder so they don't know it's there, it is handy if they are late back to find out where they are.
I would probably do the same when my boy is older.
If you really have to know where they are, why not call them and ask?I would probably do the same when my boy is older.
Luke Warm said:
steve_bmw said:
A friend of mine has two boys 11 and 12, they are of an age where they are starting to go off on there bikes ect and they both have iPhones, the parents have hidden find my friends app in a folder so they don't know it's there, it is handy if they are late back to find out where they are.
I would probably do the same when my boy is older.
If you really have to know where they are, why not call them and ask?I would probably do the same when my boy is older.
steve_bmw said:
A friend of mine has two boys 11 and 12, they are of an age where they are starting to go off on there bikes ect and they both have iPhones, the parents have hidden find my friends app in a folder so they don't know it's there, it is handy if they are late back to find out where they are.
I would probably do the same when my boy is older.
They're kids with technology they almost definitely know the app is there but they have iPhones which presumably they don't pay for so probably aren't botheredI would probably do the same when my boy is older.
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