Do you know your childs myspace password

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Do you know your childs myspace password
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Mon, 10-30-2006 - 8:11pm
I saw other posts about myspace and although I do not have time to read all of the responses right now, I would just like to ask those of you who do allow your child to go to myspace, do you know your childs myspace password? My dd goes there a lot and as of right now I do not know her password, but I am considering asking for it due to information I have been finding out about dd and her friends. BTW, she is 15.

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Registered: 05-12-2003
Mon, 10-30-2006 - 8:27pm
I got lucky because I did know my DD's email password and typed that into the Myspace password and it worked! Perhaps your DD used a password you can figure out too. I was glad I checked out the Myspace... I didn't directly tell her I saw what was posted but sort of hinted that "some people put things on their Myspace that gets checked by school personnel and police." I told her she wouldn't want to have anything posted that was illegal or anything that made her sound sleezy, promiscuous, or anything else inappropriate. She did delete some things. However, this year she has really gotten into some bad decision-making. And I recently checked her Myspace and found several things that pertained to drinking and partying. Then... OMG... she was very angry at a girl and wrote in her blog that she wants to kill her. I figured out a way to delete it; can you imagine if some school personnel found out about that comment? I'm sure she wasn't serious, but you just can't say that these days. I will be having a talk with her and I am going to have to tell her I went into her Myspace... haven't figured out what to say yet.
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Tue, 10-31-2006 - 6:29am
Yes, since day 1, I have known dd's password. She has had her own computer for forever and that has always been the number one rule - I can get into anything at anytime and she has always been real forthcoming. Over the summer she had to change her myspace password due to being "phished" and she immediately came to me and told me the new one. I try not to check it too often now as she has never given me a reason to distrust her (14 there's still time :P) Also recently, my dh, some aunts and uncles and I have gotten our own myspaces - with dh outta the country we all thought this would be a nice way to stay in touch and dd is all of their friends. She and I had to talk about that the other night - she has one very religious aunt and another aunt that is very much in the dark about teens these days (although her own dd is a teen).



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Tue, 10-31-2006 - 10:46am
Yep I know ds's myspace password and log on periodically to check out his account as well as his friends' blogs.


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Pam
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Registered: 12-30-2003
Tue, 10-31-2006 - 10:49am
yep and I go and read it on almost weekly basis. He knows it too.
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Registered: 01-03-2006
Tue, 10-31-2006 - 5:37pm

If you know your kids' email addresses you can get their password, by clicking on the "forgot my password" button. It will send the password to their email address. A word of caution....if you are doing this on the sly, make sure you delete the email, button your lip, and use their sign on only when they are in school so friends can't call to say they "see" them on line (when it's actually you!)


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Tue, 10-31-2006 - 8:28pm

I know each and every one of both my dds' passwords and my oldest is going to be 19 on Friday. It's a matter of trust, IMO.

It wasn't always that way with my 17dd - she's always been secretive and since she was diagnosed with BP, it's perfectly understandable, however, I now have all her passwords. She doesn't like it, but if she wants access to the internet at home, that's the way it is.

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Registered: 07-22-2003
Wed, 11-01-2006 - 8:28am

You don't have to have a password for myspace to read your daughter's posts. Just click search and enter your daughter's name. You'll see her post unless she only allows those she approves. You can also read messages that others leave. This creates all the "fun" of myspace. The only thing you can't do is read their blogs unless they give approval.

You can also create your own page and password.

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Registered: 08-18-2006
Wed, 11-01-2006 - 3:18pm

hi,yes I know my child's password on myspace because I downloaded the trial progam (I can't remember the name)and it will give your the password and login name to everything,of cours the free trial is over and i didn't buy the program yet,because she hasn't changed her password since I found it out.Go to Google and type in password retrieve are if you are a yahoo user login and ask (how can I find out my teens password on myspace)that is what I did.how this helps and hope I made sense.

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Registered: 01-03-2006
Wed, 11-01-2006 - 4:49pm

Right, unless she has to establish you as a 'friend' in order for you to see her profile, etc. (this is an optional setting). Having HER login information gets me in where I want to be...I can see it all. And, as far as privacy goes, IMO anything on the computer is public domain unless it's illegal (theft, pornography, etc.)


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Registered: 07-27-2006
Thu, 11-02-2006 - 5:45pm

i am 15. my mom checks my myspace a lot but she does not have my password. i'm comfortable with her looking at my comments and my page but i'm happy she doesn't have my password. not because i have anything to hide but because i have private messages on there and i wouldn't be comfortable with anyone, even my mom, reading my emails and messages between me and my friends/boyfriend. i'm very honest with my mom and she knows she can ask me anything and i'll be honest with her. of course i have my secrets, my mom doesn't know EVERYTHING about my life, but usually whenever something happens to me, i fill her in and we talk about it and she gives me good advice.

she looks at my page and if she sees something she doesn't like, she tells me and usually i end up removing it. i think you should ask your daughter to be able to look at her page every once in a while. if she says no, ask why and if she keeps refusing, then look into asking her for her password/getting her password. because unless you have reason to believe she's up to no good, there's really no need to be looking at her messages. it would just bother me if my mother were reading my emails if i hadn't given her a reason to doubt me.

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