May 06, 2009

Is your teen abusing their cell phone texting habits?

Wireless, DSL Internet, Digital TV Services, and Phone | AT&T When is the last time you checked your teens texting habits? Do you even know where to start to do such a thing? Great news, there is. More of the cellular companies are exposing the data and control you need to help you manage your teens texting habits. I have AT&T. On my monthly statement online, there is a detailed section on txt received and sent for my teens cellphone. I pulled this into excel and reviewed it. After normalizing the data for the times, I found that she was using the texting during school hours, sleep time and study time about 41% of the total texting she used in one month. That was over 1500 messages!!!! I took action and discussed the problem with her. I gave her a day to comply. I rechecked the site the next day, and low and behold she was texting during school hours once again. Next step was to call ATT. I had them turn off her text and data for the month. It is possible for you to get control over your teens texting habits. You need to set the rules and then check up after you have put them in place.

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PC Tattletale

PC Tattletale Internet Monitoring Software & Parental Control Software Ever wonder how you will track your kids movements on myspace, facebook or any of the online instant messengers that don't provide a way for you to save a log file on the local computer? Have you ever wanted to know what pictures they are looking at? Have you wondered what their passwords are for websites or social networks? Well, there is a way. One way that I have found is PC Tattletale. PC Tattletale was easy to purchase, install and activate. And the best thing about it was that it runs in stealth mode. It was easy to configure (most options were default for me). Online bad strike, the download links did not work intitially. I found a demo link that did, I downloaded it and put in my key, and I was off to the races. I found, purchased, installed and configured this software in less than 20 minutes. Great experience. I will post back when I have gathered some data from it's running.

Posted by Moderator at 09:38 AM |