How much privacy does a teenager deserve to have?

[MissKayleeBee]

I wasn't technically allowed to have a facebook until I was about 17 (although I had one when I was 14)... my parents knew I had one (I had nothing bad on there because I didn't, and still don't, drink, smoke, or put anything up that i would regreat) and they did ask me for the username and password, however they didn't really ever check it. And when they did it was them just saying "hey may I look at your facebook" and I would get mad that they didn't trust me and yes I would kind of throw a fit and get angry but I never had anything on there to be embarrassed about so...I never got in trouble.

Looking back, yes I think it was totally fair. My parents are a lot more lenient with my brothers (my parents say because i'm a girl and girls need to be protected more, even though I had no interest in doing those kinds of things) and it seems to me like a lot of these girls that my younger brothers are hanging out with are little hoochies. I'm friends with some of their friends on facebook and I look at some of these girls pictures and what they are saying...it's very disturbing. I have lost all disrespect for the high school freshmen at this point and I'm very disappointed in the parenting that is going on. I guess I'm old fashioned (for a 19 year old lol) and I just don't think these types of things are appropriate. It's okay to trust your kid....but you never know what they are doing on the internet, cell phone (my mom has found dirty texts on my brothers phone, in which the GIRLS are all the starter of these conversations...probably because they are insecure), and other things.


I would say, get the username and password...just in case. if she starts hiding it or Xing out when you come into a room, then question it, ask to see the profile, if she refuses THEN and only then would I actually take force by going on myself...although I would not tell the child because they can change the password at anytime.