Becareful what you posted! Parents're on the watch.

What if you are a parent who have to work regularly Monday-Friday, you have a secure job, but you get home late at night almost every day, computer appear to be best friend of your children. You have no idea what they are doing, because, they tell you nothing. What they're doing online appear to be a mysterious thing for the old school parents, but not until I found this article.

This article said that there are internet services available that can provide information to the parents on what their children are doing on the internet, for example, their conversation on social network services, their access to prohibited website. In an article "Now Parents Can Hire a Hall Monitor for the Web" said that, there are subscription services which help parent monitor their kid's internet surfing habit, especially what they post on social network websites. The new companies include SafetyWeb, SocialShield and My Child are the company that established for collect the information and report to the parent every thing their child do on the internet. This kind of services seems to fit the parents who are overworked and generally overwhelmed by the rapid pace of technological change and the continuing introduction of social Web sites. This services work by asking for a few pieces of information about a child, including his or her e-mail address and the family’s physical address, then they look through various social networks, checking to see where possible the child has accounts and monitoring what they writes and what others write about them. Long lists of a child’s online activities emerge, some are potentially "red-flagged"which means dangerous to them, for example, a posting with a keyword like “kill” or “suicide”. Geoffrey Arone(chief of SafetyWeb) said that “If it’s good, we’ll tell you about it and if it’s something to be concerned about, we will tell you as well”. Unfortunately, the service didn't cover private e-mail exchanges between children, as well as anything that happens over a cellphone. The companies say that without legal reasons, they cannot peek into text messages which is a major channel of communication among teenagers.

It remind me the word from the wise Sun Tzu said "One who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be in danger in a hundred battles". This internet service seems to be one good way for parent to have up to date information on what their child are doing on the internet. They might express something in the social network, for example, face book, twitter, that express their felling desperate, or they might get intimated with someone online which can induce them to do something in harm ways, even worst, if they are consider to commit suicide. App-ling for this service may be a proactive action to prevent an unimaginable problem which cannot be recall after it had happened.

Reference
Stone, B. (2010, July 2). Now Parents Can Hire a Hall Monitor for the Web. The New york times. Retrieved July 6, 2010 11.00 from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/technology/04ping.html?_r=2&ref=technology