Today's teenage bullies may conduct the majority of their schoolyard terrorism on Facebook, but parents are quickly catching on, and doing their best to mitigate cyberbullying. The New York Times Magazine recently investigated what some parents are doing to counteract online bullying, and, not surprisingly, found a pretty wide variety of approaches. Some run to the police, while others choose to engage directly with a bully's parents. Many, however, have adopted a more Orwellian approach to parenting, and have begun monitoring their teens' online behavior with renewed vigor.A program called MobileSpy, for example, gives parents complete access to every text their teen sends, and uses GPS technology to track his or her whereabouts. Parents can also use keystroke loggers to keep an eye on anything their child sends or posts online. A recent study from the Pew Research Center Internet and American Life Project found that roughly two-thirds of all parents admit to regularly monitoring their teenagers' cell phones. Half of them say they use phones to verify their children's whereabouts.
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