Would You Promote Parental Monitoring Software?

Im about to get started on a parental monitoring software application and wondered if any of you folks would be interested in promoting such a product?

With the growth of social networking sites and the potential dangers to kids these days i figured this could be a great product to add to our warning pages alongside places such as NetNanny and CyberSitter, etc.

What are your thoughts, is parental monitoring software something you would potentially offer your surfers?

Regards,

Lee

99% of my target audience don't have children ;)

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Originally Posted by Xstr8guy

99% of my target audience don't have children ;)

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Agreed, but you may get the odd mum checking what his son is looking at. Not enough to make it viable for me though.

I'm against any form of spyware. Especially spying on your children most likely does more harm than it helps. I agree that you need to know about the habits and friends of your children. However, a spy tool simply destroys any trust a child has build in their parents as soon as the child finds out. And will be just a matter of time until the child finds out about the spyware on it's computer.

Bringing up a child in a way that it trusts it's parents is essential and is necessary to be rewarded with the same trust. Software is not supposed to do a parents job. Parents should inform themselves and talk to their children about dangers on the web. If they maintain a trustful atmosphere in the family, there is not much chance a child will fall for some pervert online. If it learns that it's parents are spying on it, it's much likely that the child will just look for other adults which it can trust. And exactly this is the situation what those sickos are fishing for.

So for me any software of this kind is absolutely nono! However, I would strongly support any software that tells parents each and every day: 'Have you talked to your child today!' And a red button had to flash, starting in one corner of the monitor and slowly moving to the center, until the child has disabled the button with it's own password.

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Originally Posted by attis

I'm against any form of spyware. Especially spying on your children most likely does more harm than it helps. I agree that you need to know about the habits and friends of your children. However, a spy tool simply destroys any trust a child has build in their parents as soon as the child finds out. And will be just a matter of time until the child finds out about the spyware on it's computer.

Bringing up a child in a way that it trusts it's parents is essential and is necessary to be rewarded with the same trust. Software is not supposed to do a parents job. Parents should inform themselves and talk to their children about dangers on the web. If they maintain a trustful atmosphere in the family, there is not much chance a child will fall for some pervert online. If it learns that it's parents are spying on it, it's much likely that the child will just look for other adults which it can trust. And exactly this is the situation what those sickos are fishing for.

So for me any software of this kind is absolutely nono! However, I would strongly support any software that tells parents each and every day: 'Have you talked to your child today!' And a red button had to flash, starting in one corner of the monitor and slowly moving to the center, until the child has disabled the button with it's own password.

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I could not agree more. And to answer your original question Lee, no I would not promote such software.

from whay I can figure out, a large amount of my customers are married with families and just want to see some men on the side.

So yeah.. it makes sense to me...

No, I would not promote it because I doubt it would sell well with my traffic.