Tech’s Arrested Development: Odious Parenting Apps Spy, Track Teens and Ruin Lives

by Dave Masko

Tech’s Arrested Development, by Dave Masko. Parents who fully wire their children with digital technology devices remove feelings of individualism are now hidden and secretive online because fully wired youth do not trust their parents and other adults. In fact, most adults admit to spying on their kids by monitoring their son or daughter’s photos, text messages, app downloads, browser history and even the videos they watch. Meanwhile, these same moms and dads who say they “must snoop” are people who never, ever, give their children quality face time because they too are addicted to this fake online digital lifestyle. “The result of all this online spying on your own kids with odious tech tools such as iParent, iStudent and SchoolsBuddy apps not only reveals the dark corners of your child’s online lifestyle, but also this dystopian surveillance mindset can really hurt a parent’s personal ‘real-life’ relationship because IT says ‘I don’t trust you.’ One of the reasons teens are hooked into machine and committing suicide at epidemic levels is because they are stuck online; while not trusting their parents because mom and dad prefers to spy rather than actually have a face-to-face conversation about setting boundaries online,” explained grandparent and retired nurse Shelia Olson who also thinks most parents today “are not creating self-sufficient adults because they’ve literally filled their hearts and minds with so much digital technology that kids today cannot stand up and present themselves or even look you in the eyes because they are literally dumb-downed by too much exposure to screens,” added Olson, 64, who volunteers at one of the many nondescript information technology rehab addiction treatment centers along Oregon’s peaceful and mostly tech-free coast. Olson also thinks most fully wired teens “don’t trust their parents with even the smallest things because the Internet of things now serves as their iParent of sorts.” Olson said she’s seen the negative effect of kids hooked on this “digital crack” as “truly arrested development because this techie generation cannot think or speak without a device in their hands or their eyes viewing words or how to live on screens.” This special “new journalism” Kindle e-book features essays that help explain the Who, What, When, Where, How and Why of addiction to information technology and why iStudent and iParent apps are viewed as “pure Orwellian because you are now spying on your own children, and trusting artificial intelligence more than your own flesh and blood,” added Olson with tears in her eyes.

Kindle Edition

Published December 4, 2018

Reviews

[Ollie Grimes · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read this book. It is really interesting as it shows the children's control from both different sides. I've started reading it after I've read some materials about how to monitor the activity in Snapchat as well as on other social platforms using apps at https://celltrackingapps.com/how-to-m.... It is a good idea to use such apps to control your kids and be calm that they do not visit the prohibited on suspicious sources.