Users will not be able to distinguish what is true and what is not. Taking into consideration that the PPN is only in its beta stages, what they charge for their program is not yet a huge factor. However, if you take into account just how many things will trigger alerts being sent to parents, the number is outrageous. Many teen's daily language consists of profanity, racist, or sexually explicit words. If parents were to receive a notification every time their teen used such vocabulary, not only would it get extremely tiresome for the parents, it would also mean that the teen would possible be confronted every time they used such language. This would eventually lead both parties to harbor irritation for each other.
Monitoring what teenagers do may, as mentioned before, put a heavy strain on the relationship between parent and child as well as make the child feel as if they are being spied everywhere, even at the supposed safest place, home. The Contra Costa Times of Walnut Creek published an article called "Teens Share Their Privacy Horror Stories" where the teen's statements are truly worrisome. One teen, Joseph Natividad, states that, "I have to glance behind my back once in a while whenever I IM at home. My mom has a knack for sneaking behind me and reading some of my personal conversations. I really get annoyed by it!" If Natividad is constantly exposed to such conditions at home, he may keep the same behavior that he has at home because of the insecurity he feels everywhere. In a way, Natividad's mom has damaged his social skills.
According to the article, "Now Easy for Any Parent to Spy on Teens", written by Felicity Caldwell and Laura Speranza Barrister Nicholas Baltinos says that the programs were, "an invasion of privacy and parents could be breaking the law." Now to add on to the fact that parents could be giving their children bad thoughts by not giving them an environment where they feel safe at, they now may be breaking laws trying to do so.
