Spying on the Text Generation

When it comes to watching over their tech-obsessed teenagers, parents are learning the dangers of too much information.

(Photographs by Josh Campbell)

By Neil Swidey

June 8, 2008

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One mom does her best surveillance work in the laundry room. Her teenage son has the habit of leaving his cellphone in the pocket of his jeans, so in between sorting colors and whites, she'll grab his phone and furtively scroll through his text messages from the past week to see what he's said, whom he's connected with, and where ... (Full article: 4095 words)