i have lost my internet privacy, are you like this too? Options

[littlewhite]

i have seen that *minimize* topic and i am definitely a victim of it...

but one thing even worse is that my mom logins my email account and look at MY emails, going on my xanga and read what i wrote there and my friends' comments.
one time i changed the email password and she gets hella mad at me.

anything happen to you like this?

[KELLYYY]

Oh, wow. No. Thank God my parents don't know english.

[Saeglopur]

You should delete your history.

[azn_r4pf4n]

nah... this never happened to me before. my email is full of spam that it sounds like a waste of time reading it.

[inthemudhole]

Nah. I don't talk to anyone via e-mail anymore, really. My parents aren't that nosy.

[pAtRiCk_sTar]

Hehe, no thank goodness. My parents....could care less..but..uh...yeah o.0

[Levy2k6]

my parents dont know a single password to anything and not even know how to turn my pc on... so i got as much as i can... but my sis knows how to use my pc.. but i got Admin rights and general access to internet but she gets limitations.. so idk..

[JlIaTMK]

Noooo, my mom's not that over protective. She lets me have my privacy.

[Pulchritude]

i put a pw to log onto my computer.. my parents have their own computer so they dont have to use mine.. but my parents trust me.. i guess

[*jooleeah*]

Nope. My parents trust me. Sorta. xD;;

[Chii]

You should delete your history.

yeah, you should definately do this, my boyfriend does...i'd tell you how to but i don't know

you should also probably delete the websites that are in you web adress bar


plus, delete your favorites and save all your stuff on floppy disks, give each of them some project or school thing name, and hide them somewhere...

that's so horrible that your parents invade your privacy like that...have you tried talking to them?

[Pulchritude]

this website is great for cleaning out your history
http://www.ccleaner.com/
i use that and to remove stuff from your web adress bar go to tools>>internet options>> then clear history

[Skyline Drive]

Geez. DEMAND PRIVACY..

Does she watch you take showers too ?
Change your passwords and clear your history like chii said.

[Saeglopur]

As for deleting your history .. it's in IE > Tools > Internet Options > and you'll see Clear History

[Baku]

haha my parents dont care what i do on the net as long as i dont use my credit card

[WhiteLotus*]

Nope.
The only time she reads my stuff is when she looks over my shoulder time to time. She knows I have a xanga, but she doesn't read it. I always delete my history.

My dad is computer alliterate, so I never have to worry about it. He's scared to turn on the computer, 'cause he think it'll blow up or something.

I'm really sorry your parents do that to you. Seriously, you need to demand some privacy ( in a nice way).

[sharerol]

Oh...well, my dad is nosy, but not as nosy as to where he has to look through my emails and the website I go to.

[to-devastate]

Aw that really sucks.
Talk to them about it. or delete everything you have. heh.
Thank goodness my parents don't check up on me. They know I have a "website" (xanga) and sometimes asks to see it. I say "it's on hiatus" and they buy it.

[Shattered_Hope]

Nope. My parents respect my privacy..they trust me..

[laur3nw]

That really sucks...I'm glad my parents trust me. Why don't you make another account for everything that your parents won't know about and keep the old ones?

[*stephinika*]

wow, thats ridiculous. you deserve and have a right to your own privacy... i'd be so angry if that ever happened to me.

[HelloSunshine]

my parents don't really know much about computers, so no, but a few times my mom made me show her an IM window and it was really private. She wanted to know what it was, but i told her "oh no, that's all, what you see, that's all" heh and arghh my dad reads it, he hovers over me and read the convo or looks at what I"m doing..it gets me pissed

[yeseulx3]

my mom's not that nosy...

[yukichan]

And if they found out about xanga and CB they would take internet forever. . .

ya my parents would too..
my parents arent really like that..well they think im researching and doing hw and all that...so ya...

[RandomHero]

Luckily my mom has trouble turning on the computer.

[ItzOnlySydney]

i quit xanga cuz my mom kept reading it.

[EXPLO5ION]

My brother and I had something similar to that. We have Verizon Online DSL, and you have different accounts (emails from MSN or Hotmail) to sign into. Basically my dad just made himself "head honcho" and he put all these restrictions on us. He could access our emails, and read our IMs (Only MSN though.) I got really sick of it and made a new email that he doesn't know about.

[toodlepops.]

i can't believe your mom did that!

[inlonelinessidie]

Haha, I caught my mom reading my email and xanga once and when I walked in she panicked and "x'ed" out of the pages.

[gelionie]

Wow, your mum is way too much. O_o

My parents respect my e-mail privacy and they don't log into my e-mail accounts.

But my dad has signed up for a xanga and he actually subscribed to me . My mum also always asks me about my online journal, except she doesn't know the link to my xanga, thank goodness.

[kryzcoak47luv666]

Geez. DEMAND PRIVACY..

Does she watch you take showers too ? 
Change your passwords and clear your history like chii said.

lol @ shower comment
change your PW, your entitled to your privacy, no exceptions, your parents should trust you unless you gave them a reason not to. Thank god my dad is computer illiterate. And def delete your history, and cookies too, because those can save the remember me passwords on certain sites.

[*Weird addiction*]

OH MY GOD! my parents know about xanga but they never go there, my dad even encourages me to chat

[misoshiru]

no, my parents are overprotective, but they don't go that far.

[twelveislands]

My parent's don't care what I go on Even when I was 13 they just let me go on any sites.. apart from over 18 sites

[XaZnX07]

woah!!!!!!! wtf she has the time to doo all that shit that pisses me off even though its your mom but still they dont shouldnt do that shit to you ........ haha umm sorry kinda makes me mad when parents do that

.:tony:.

[cocoalightning27]

Nah....My mom can't get through one sentence of english without asking me what a word is

[xbr0kensmil3]

my parents aren't that nosy but they always ask me why I'm always online. Good thing they don't know how to use the computer.

[Ington]

Oh god. My parents aren't that bad. But now I'm scared. If my parents found all the stuff I was sending and writing, I would probably be sent to a therapist or a mental institution.

[azn_r4pf4n]

But my dad has signed up for a xanga and he actually subscribed to me .

that's just plain scary.

[*mzkandi*]

Once again I will state that I dont stay with my parents. I have my own room in my apartment on campus so i have the ultimate privacy. But I have changed my passwords to two of my emails because my friend figured them out

[Eryi]

My parents don't care. Lol. My parents aren't nosy anyways. So it's all good for muah!

[DavidJ2318]

my mom always wanted my password when i had gotten my first email address, but she eventually forgot, but since i know my (pa)rents are always so suspicious, i always [x] out everything and clear the history, and thats only on IE

when i really dont want them to know, i use netscape, which i am sure that are not even aware of is on our computer

note: for all you firefox peoples there, i use that too

[DavidJ2318]

Luckily my mom has trouble turning on the computer.

thats hilarious

[WrathOfOnigo]

My mom used to go through my e-mail! But I have my own computor that is full of passwords so she can't get into anything.

[jenika]

nope...thank goshers my grandma doesnt even know how to turn on the laptop

[lolthissiteisfun...]

My parents don't. I don't use email that much anyway. But I do delete my history so they can't see the sites I've been to, like cB. They would kill me.

[*Azarel*]

Actually, my mother read an e-mail I was writing once, since it was on the computer without shared accounts. She told me she wouldn't, that liar. It pissed the fuck out of me though, since she brought it up in an argument. Ughasjdfhwoeirj. But other than that one incident that I know about, I haven't run into that sort of trouble.

My parents know I make online friends, my dad yelled at me about it before, but I think they're cool with it now. They just don't know I meet up with people I met online irl.

[freeflow]

no my parents dont know anything aboiut checking my email ..and we rrecently got wireless dsl soo now i put a password on my computer and changed all the email ones because there is no way there going to get all up in my business .

[c0oki3_m0n$tah]

wow, thats ridiculous. you deserve and have a right to your own privacy... i'd be so angry if that ever happened to me.

^^i completely agree. thank god my parents don't do that to me. you should talk to her about it. like....maturely. maybe she'll understand.

[sandy_lumpy_shor...]

wow tht sux. well no i dont have that problem bbut my friend cant send any emails until after her parents aprove because everything she send goes to her parents and crap so that sux

[ChasingLife87]

I had the same problem when I first got email..... we all shared a computer and we used outlook express... and dial up ... so sometimes, while I was at school and Mom went online, she'd download my email for me. And sometimes she'd look through it. (it really threw her off when in the middle of an email a friend would go "HI MELANIE'S MOM!!!")

Eventually I moved onto my own laptop and DSL. She still knows the password I use. But I've been so long without giving her a reason to check that she just doesn't any more.

But yes, clearing history and cookies? oh yeah

[iliang86]

my parents found my xanga a few years ago...got in a little bit of trouble for the things i wrote about. all i did was make a new one...haha

[jaeman]

My parents don't do that, I can't imagine how much you'd love to have privacy.

[angel-roh]

lol that's sad... how'd she find your password to your email? and she's mad that you changed your password? lol. she shouldnt be cause she shouldnt look at people's privacy, i mean how would she feel if her own daughter lookover her mom's privacy stuff.

my mom doesnt really know how to use the computer, so she doesnt anything about my stuff.. like my xanga and my password. neither my dad... heh my password is hard to guess hehe cause it has a lot of numbers.

[KissMe2408]

whoa, no way. Nothing to THAT extreme. I would hate it if my mom logged onto my email and read everything, and got on my xanga and read everythan. That's too much..Well i guess you can say that she cares enough to know whats going on in ur life. But still...no privacy. ah! as a teen you need privacy lol. When i was younger and we had aol, my mom used to not let me get online unless she signed me on. I hated that, aol used to kick me off all the time, so it was a pain calling her back over to re-sign me on. lol i remember those days

[*mona lisa*]

Omg, that is horrible. One thing I hate is being deprived of my privacy. You could go into your Internet Options and if you want it, I can tell you in detail. There is an option where your Temporary Internet Files and URL's in the address bar are automatically deleted when you close the browser. It can be inconvenient sometimes. -_-

[me1issaaaa]

Yeah, basically.
I'm not allowed to have a computer in my own room anymore.
My brother found out about my Myspace and told my mom to piss me off.
She screamed at me for days.
I was grounded a few days, but I put it back up after she cooled down.
I just delete the history and she hasn't found out about it since.

[IamRad]

I dont have an email... My parents have no idea what xanga is cuz i delete my history. They dont know what createblog is cuz i delete the history also. and for AIM welll they dont kno anythin about that

[nopattern]

I'm a good kid. So, no.

[KERP1UNK]

aww that sucks! my parents arent like that luckily...

[snak3y3z1001]

no. they barely know how to use the electronics in my house

[iheartsimba]

My mother used to read my xanga's. It pissed me off. And she better have stopped. Usually I check history after she gets off the computer, and I haven't seen it recently. (she doesn't know enough about computers to know what history is)

[mickybeans]

Oh, wow. No. Thank God my parents don't know english.

ah, same here! but then i have an older brother and sister and they just love reading my stuff. :( so i'm very limited to the things that i say on my xanga.

[FoOd]

Gosh, my parents are evil.
Supposedly, they tried to threaten me by cutting off the internet and was all like
"What is createblog? Get off there or you might get raped!!"
And I was like,
"WTF?! Its just a forum."
Then they eventually found out my password(by sticking up a camera in my ceiling to see whats my password), so then I had to change my password.

My parents are too nosy.

[Nicole0402]

no. but you should tell your mom. that you deserve your privacy It's just wrong. Start going through her stuff. see how she likes it. I know that isnt exactly the way to "approach" it but hey...ya got to do, what ya got to do

[SMUSHiENESS]

whoa. that is an invation of privacy. yeah my parents come around just to check up what im doing on the computer, but they dont snoop around looking at my email. how did you know they were checking you email anyways?

[EmmalieV]

You crazy my parnets would get screamed at they respect my privacy.

[loljuliana]

Nah. they dont know my pw for my email. and they have no idea what a xanga is. =) thank goodness

[smthngcrprategrl...]

my mom does that too sometimes. then checks my history on the computer to see where i've been and stuff. sucks major

[blah122986]

i dun have to worry bout dat...muh mom dunno much bout comps....dat sux for u though...blah.z...

[Ballpointpencil]

No, thankfully my parents don't try to track me on the 'net. They know I have a xanga, but I don't believe they read it. If they do, my important stuff is written in protected posts, so I should be okay.

[weirdness]

my dad likes to read my aim convos when i forget to close them. argh.
i don't use email, and they wouldn't know my password. >>;;
and they don't mind me having a xanga

why would your mom get mad if you changed your password? it's YOUR xanga, after all. and it's not like you're doing anything bad online
(are you? lol)

[gladz612]

awww... that sounds pretty bad... maybe u shdu talk with your mum about it... maybe she's just too worried about u... well my mum respects my privacy...

[PinkTrash]

0h wow, if my parents ever found my xanga. . . oh my.
but I dont think they have the time to care for much of the stuff I do.

[*suddenly she*]

i change my computer login password every few days. because i'm crazy.

[q-tips rule]

eh.. not really. though when she sees an IM box she'll be like who are you talking to?

[soulless727]

purple ponies are watching me

[smrkangl]

i don't use e-mail anymore....my parents don't really care, because they trust me.

[*SimplePlan_Luvr*]

i change my computer login password every few days. because i'm crazy.

i cant do tht lool well actully i can but i alway 4get it lool


ohhh tht was hell lool wen i was younger mai mum would sit there n watch wat i was doin on da comp...

[blondisnirvana]

My mom doesn't really trust me but she pretends she does because she can't use the computer. It makes me happy.

[lilnatcat]

I have so many freakin accounts in e-mails, bloggers & xangas they can't be bothered to go through them all.

However there was a time where my frd's dad saw my website on her computer and started reading it, then sending the web address to other families's parents the following day!!!!!

Bcoz us several families went on a holiday recently, so my frd's dad sent my xanga address to them and they read my site too since the most recent one was about the trip. I didn't find out until one of my frds in one of the families called me like at 3 in the morning. I then got up and edited the site straight away so that if the others check it in the morning, it well..........would'nt be that "MA" rated.

Thats all thats happened, nothing else. Parents can't b bothered

[demolished]

oh great, as long my mom doesnt know english ! mowhaha, i'm not sure about my dad, he knows englsh a bit and he watch me type .. but i'm aware of what i'm typing.

Once again I will state that I dont stay with my parents. I have my own room in my apartment on campus so i have the ultimate privacy. But I have changed my passwords to two of my emails because my friend figured them out

Untrustable friends ! why Would they try accesing to ur account ?

[xMayleex]

My sister goes on mine i went mad with her, i was like whats the point she has her own account, she went on my msn and was saying stuff to people, then they were mad at me, shes been on my xanga adding random things, my mum and dad gave her a row but i have changed all my passwords.

[emazing]

Hrm, no, but that's wow. You should ask her for your privacy and maybe she'll give it to you.

[canny]

They dare not

[sunissed14127]

Thats really horrible. My parents don't do that to me.