In Harlan Coben’s article “The Undercover Parent”(2008) he discusses the pros and cons of a new technology called Spyware. When one thinks of Spyware‚ they immediately think of a spy. The spy is your parent‚ spyware gives them access to everything on your electronic devices. Parents decide it’s better to go through our devices for information instead of asking their children questions. This is a huge invasion of privacy. I believe you should not use spyware on your child’s device. In Coben’s article
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Coben’s essay‚ “The Undercover Parent” (2008). It claims that parents should install spyware in their
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Professor Patton English 1B 26 February 2014 The Undercover Parent To be honest‚ I have mixed emotions when it comes to parents installing spyware on their child’s computer. I think there are many pros and cons to each choice‚ which is why I have such mixed views. I grew up in a Christian home‚ where my father was one of the pastors at our church. So‚ you can imagine how conservative my upbringing was‚ and how much my parents sheltered me from many of the dangers of this world. I always had
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The Undercover Parent Essay Harlen Coben wrote “The Undercover Parent” to discuss parents use of spyware on their children. Copen believes that parents should use spyware. Spyware should be used to responsibly protect their children not use it to be nosey. You should not use it to find out about their lives. You should be listening for dangerous chatter and if you are not doing so you are not doing your job as a parent.I as well as coben believe that parents should use spyware as long as they are
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Harlen Coben in editorial “The Undercover Parent” ( March 16‚2008 ) claims that parents should have conversations about their concerns with their teenagers ‚and let them know spyware is a possibility. The Author supports and develops the thesis by putting enough evidence to the article. He also supports the thesis by convincing people to use spyware is a possibility. The author talks about parents using spyware on their teens.Another thing coben talks about parents instead of using spyware they
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New York Times‚ “The Undercover Parent‚” Harlan Coben argues that parental use of spyware to monitor a child’s activities on the computer. The essay begins with Coben showing his initial apprehension towards the use of spyware stating‚ it’s an “invasion of privacy.” Coben mentions that his‚ as well as many other parents‚ hesitation may have started from the word: spyware. Nevertheless‚ as the essay continues on Coben’s views‚ on the subject‚ change. He says that some parents overprotect their children
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article “The Undercover Parents” by Harlan Coben in March 16‚ 2008 reports that parents should put spyware on their children’s social network. Most parents put spyware on their kids to monitor their kid’s behavior‚ or keep them from danger or harmful places. Coben’s purpose of writing this article is to persuade the readers to spyware their kids online to protect their kids from danger or harmful online websites‚ or to keep their children on track with their academic. However‚ some parents will say that
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A Critique of “The Undercover Parent” by Harlan Coben I have talked with some of my friends about “Should parents install spyware on the computer to inspect their kids?” All of them think that was not an appropriate way. One of them‚ Tonya Steel said‚ “It makes me sick that parents can put spyware on computer to stalk their kids.” She didn’t mean the software that just blocks porn sites; she just couldn’t accept the one that record every keystroke‚ every page clicked on even every msn convo. Tonya
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Parents Should Trust Their Kids Have you ever been on your phone or laptop and your parents come inside the room and start to look over your shoulder to see what your doing? In the article “ The Undercover Parent” they explain why some parents tend to do this with their children and why they might not trust their kids with the internet. In my opinion I think that parents should have trust in their kid and at least check on them once in awhile. My first evidence I have is some parents use spyware
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The New York Times‚ “The Undercover Parent” (March 16‚ 2008) asserts that parents should install spyware on their children’s computers in order to protect children from the dangers of the internet. Coben claims that because what a child does on the internet is public‚ as a parent you have the right to view it as well‚ so we should be monitoring them in this area as well. However‚ Coben does admit that this is indeed an invasion of privacy‚ but that in order to be a good parent we must do so to protect
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