Analysis Of The Article 'The Undercover Parent'

In Harlen Coben’s “The Undercover Patent,” Coben argues of being in favor of implementing spyware to the children’s computer. He claims that this protect their children so they could monitor their action when they are browsing the web. He is also convincing many parents to do this by telling letting them know that its not hard to place spyware on children computer. Also that this is not a bad idea after all we are their parents not unknown entity like the government. Coben also argues that this not as bad because the internet is already visible to the public. Therefore, this concept is to just basically have an eye on their children so they could protect them from cyberbullying and pedophiles. He also stated that he knows that children will

In his essay, “The Undercover Parent,” Harlan Coben argues in the favor of the use of parental spyware on children’s computers. Coben’s claim for his argument is that by installing the spyware unto a child’s computer, you have the ability to log every keystroke your child makes and thus be better equipped to protect your child from harmful situations. Coben acknowledges parent’s hesitation and repulsion of spyware, and clearly defines for his audience what spyware is exactly and how it operates. The author reminds his audience with logical appeals that most parents do already monitor their children’s day to day lives, and that spyware simply offers a new way of protection. Coben then lists his audience’s common counter arguments such as simply

Coben states that parents should put spyware on their kids computers, but shouldn’t be nosey and be completely responsible look for anything hazardous. However I disagree and believe teenagers should be trusted with online responsibilities. One reason for this is a third party (the vendor) makes a record of what you do ,but the author did not make note this or did not even know which in my opinion is worst than a faceless bureaucrat because that third is likely to release it to other parties such as google or other big corporations.

In Harlan Coben’s article “The Undercover Parent,”(2008) he claims that parents should result to putting spyware on you tennager’s devices. Coben supports his claim by first stating “At first I was repelled at this invasion of privacy. Now, after doing an fair amount of research, I get it”, after a dinner he just had with friends who told Coben that they have put spyware on their teenager’s device, and how it kept him out of trouble. Coben’s purpose of this article is try to persuade parents that you should download spyware on your children’s devices yet, in order for Coben to get his purpose, he had to do some research and ask around for incidents that had occurred to his friends.. The audience is intended for parents of those who concern

Coben uses reasoning by frequently bringing up the different issues with spyware, only to refute them and strengthen his argument. He possesses a more lenient perspective on what should be considered safe on the Internet and what should not be. For example, he argues that not all of a child’s conversations need to be considered and neither does the issue of pornography. Coben argues that pornography is a natural interest amongst many teenage boys. Thus, he persuades his reader to be more open about spyware through his lenient position on spyware and by addressing almost all of the issues that come to a reader’s mind. Coben both establishes his credibility and appeals to his audience’s emotions through his use anecdotes. For example, he includes how his friend had a talk with his daughter after monitoring her using drugs and having an affair with her dealer, which ended up well and put his daughter in the right direction. Coben also uses personal anecdotes to appeal and connect with audience. For example, Coben uses a personal anecdote of how he used to look at magazine from Playboy to relate to the audience of teens, who would be against spyware. Coben establishes a well-rounded argument; although, I do feel that installing spyware on a child is still very wrong to do, I have somewhat become more open and can see why some would consider

In his article "Undercover Parent," Harlan Coben encourages and supports the concept of spyware being placed on teenagers' computers by their parents. With these programs parents can view every keystroke their child makes and examine what websites their children visit. While Coben’s viewpoints are bold, his argument still stands weakly with several invalid and questionable viewpoints.

It is not about being in every single conversation when your kids social media. Coben is not suggesting to eavesdrop on your kids conversations,

The title of the essay is The Undercover Parents, which was written by Harlan Coben. The essay was published on the 16th of March, 2008. In the essay, Coben presents his main ideas and thoughts regarding the use of spyware by parents to monitor children. He says that installing a spyware on the computer used by children, especially those in the teenage years, can help parents track what actually their children view on computers. In the essay, the author says that while it is quite hard to follow up on children while they are away from home and this causes parents to be so worried, installing spyware on the computers in the house really helps. Coben says that the program allows parents to keep track of the children

However, this power dynamic fosters an unhealthy and deceitful parental relationship. His questionable and vague evidence compromises his credibility, “First, we’ve all read about the young boy unknowingly conversing with a pedophile or the girl who was cyberbullied to the point where she committed suicide” (paragraph 8). He creates a narrative by substituting facts for hypotheticals, striking the listener’s emotions to escalate the audience’s anxiety. Coben utilizes fear-mongering to convince the readers that the internet is only for pedophiles and bullies. Negating a child’s right to safe spaces and assuming parents are well-intended, Coben implies that invasion of privacy is justification in the name of love.

In the article by Coben, Harlan. “The Undercover Parent.”(2008) Coben claims that spyware should be used to see what your teenager is doing on their device. Coben supports his thesis by saying example of things happening on the internet that parents need to be aware of, for example a teenager can be talking to a stranger online and the person sends the teenager a message or link to bad things. He made this article to inform parents that your kids can be doing bad things on the internet in order to get parents to use Spyware.

Harlan Coben, in the article “The Undercover Parent” (2008), explains that in order to keep kids safe on the internet, parents should download spyware on their computers and phones. Coben supports his claim by first illustrating the different dangers there are on the internet by creating fear and then providing examples of different stories his friends have told him about their children on the internet. The author’s purpose is to persuade the parents of teens to download spyware on their kid’s computers so that they can make sure their kids are safe and responsible while online. Coben writes in a persuasive tone for the parents of teenagers to convince them that downloading spyware is the responsible thing to do. While I agree with Coben’s argument on downloading spyware on children’s computers, his lack of solid evidence weakens his chances of

“This legislation grew out of the fact that by 1998 roughly ten million American children had access to the Internet, and at the same time, studies indicated that children were unable to understand the potential effect of revealing their personal information online and parent failed to monitor their children’s use of the Internet.” (Koby)

The article “Undercover Parent,” written by Harlan Coben, claims that parents should have a conversation about their concerns and let their kids know that “spyware” or other systems similar to it are available. I both agree and disagree with his thoughts towards “spyware.” This article is an editorial, and was written with the intention of persuading parents that “spyware” is a good idea, to an extent.

One thing that led me to agree with Coben was when he spoke to parents and said, “... you’re listening for dangerous chatter..” (Par.11) He’s right, when spyware is used correctly, the parents are looking to make sure you’re being safe, it’s not strangers trying to find information about you. A parents job is to protect their child at all costs, and that extends to protecting you on the internet. Even though kids may feel like their privacy has been violated, if used correctly, you are not invading privacy, only giving protection from dangers unknown to them.

To begin with, parents spy on their kids so they could know what they bring doing during their days.In the article the author states that “61 percent of parents checked the websites that their teenagers visited, 60 percent visited their social media accounts and 48 percent looked through their phone calls and messages. Basically, what is this quote is saying is that parents are tracking their kids due to their websites that they go thru their cell phones who they being texting or calling and they social media such as facebook instagram. This is important because, it shows that parents are very careless for their child. So, if