Not that I'm a teenager anymore - but I gotta say, I'd have thrown a fit if my parents had wanted to keep track of all of that stuff. The same as I'd have found it bizarre if my parents wanted to hang out in my bedroom every time I had a slumber party with my girlfriends. Or read every note that I was passing in school. Or if they were reading my diary.

Privacy is and always has been extremely important to me - and I was well aware of the dangers of the internet when I was younger and the lecherous old men around - when I was younger there really wasn't all that many females on the internet and you were an instant target if you were. I typically would either pretend to be male or an unappealing female. Or older. And definitely privacy included privacy from my parents.

Actually, I'd have pitched a private fit and would have set things up so there were dummy accounts that my parents could see, and my real accounts that I could do what I wanted on - and that would have been a matter of principle. And, while my father was an engineer, I was way more computer savvy than he was and just naturally more at ease with them.

I don't remember what it was, but my parents would occasionally take away my internet access when I was grounded. Disconnect the phone line to my room. That usually entailed me waiting till my parents went to sleep, reconnecting the phone line to my room (reconnecting the wires in the utility room), having the old antiquitated commodore 64 in my room so i could play games (with a borrowed modem from a friend), dialing up and using the internet at night completely text based. I'd surf for a while, go disconnect my phone line, and go to sleep.

For the most part, I was a pretty good kid. I never drank, I never did drugs, I never partied. I did ocassionally sneak out to do wild things like... Hang out at the 24 hour walmart and maybe ride skateboards or bikes in the store. I do confess to having liked boys, though! I snuck out to a party once or twice, and being the responsible one that didn't drink, I spent way too much time babysitting the drunk kids, so I had no desire to go to parties after that.

Anyways - everyone can raise their kids how they want, but I know I resented and did not like it anytime my parents thought they had a right to invade my privacy just because - or couldn't trust me to make good choices.

I still keep my computers & email locked up pretty tight, even if I trust someone and it's pretty much an unforgivable sin if someone starts poking around in my accounts. And no... it's not like I'm up to anything on them.