Who can look at your cell phone???

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  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    Just a note to the people who don't lock your phones: You should, in case it gets stolen or lost. I'm the most careful/paranoid person ever, and I still ended up with my purse getting stolen earlier this year.

    You can share your pass codes with your spouses to keep the openness, etc., but seriously... lock your phones.
    Not paranoid. Ever.


    Never had jack diddly stolen from me. Methinks I'm gonna continue to keep my phone unlocked.
  • MichaelYoung1976
    MichaelYoung1976 Posts: 307
    I don't care who looks at my phone. If I'm in a relationship, I won't have anything to hide.

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  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    My ex-husband has finally passcoded his phone so I can't get in it. A**hole.
  • dayotte33
    dayotte33 Posts: 80 Member
    Hopefully I'm not being nosy. I'm not sure how to explain it. I just want them to know that I'm doing my job as a parent. I ask what time they're going to be home...who are they going to be with....I keep an eye on their grades. I'm not necessarily NOT trusting them. My hope is to let them know that until they're brains are fully developed (23 yoa) then it's my job to make sure they make good choices.
    It's hard to explain. But I did A LOT of stuff when i was a kid and if my parents kept better tabs on me I'd like to think I would've made better choices.
  • Nerdy_Rose
    Nerdy_Rose Posts: 1,277 Member
    Just a note to the people who don't lock your phones: You should, in case it gets stolen or lost. I'm the most careful/paranoid person ever, and I still ended up with my purse getting stolen earlier this year.

    You can share your pass codes with your spouses to keep the openness, etc., but seriously... lock your phones.
    Not paranoid. Ever.


    Never had jack diddly stolen from me. Methinks I'm gonna continue to keep my phone unlocked.

    Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it won't, or can't.

    I never had anything stolen from me, ever, either... until March of this year. So when I got a new phone, I started locking it.
  • JenniBaby85
    JenniBaby85 Posts: 855 Member
    Well, my kids are under 3. And my 2 1/2 year old has already made calls on it. My hubby has access to it too. Don't really care since there is nothing to hide.
  • lour441
    lour441 Posts: 543 Member
    Just a note to the people who don't lock your phones: You should, in case it gets stolen or lost. I'm the most careful/paranoid person ever, and I still ended up with my purse getting stolen earlier this year.

    You can share your pass codes with your spouses to keep the openness, etc., but seriously... lock your phones.

    I found a phone last week. It was unlocked. I dialed the last number called on it and set up a time they could pick it up. Had it been locked they probably would not have gotten it back.
  • SuperSexyDork
    SuperSexyDork Posts: 1,669 Member
    My SO and I have the same passcode for our phones. They're frequently left out in the open. If he wanted to go through my phone or my gmail, or anything on there I wouldn't have a problem with him.

    He calls me nosey because I tell him what the messages on his phone say but if I don't, he'll leave them sit there for weeks and never read them... and then people will call me and ask if he got their message so I just find it easier that way.

    No one else is allowed in my phone. No one. If you need to see something in there, I'll show you. If you want to use an app, I'll open it for you. That's how it works.
  • SuperSexyDork
    SuperSexyDork Posts: 1,669 Member
    Just a note to the people who don't lock your phones: You should, in case it gets stolen or lost. I'm the most careful/paranoid person ever, and I still ended up with my purse getting stolen earlier this year.

    You can share your pass codes with your spouses to keep the openness, etc., but seriously... lock your phones.

    I found a phone last week. It was unlocked. I dialed the last number called on it and set up a time they could pick it up. Had it been locked they probably would not have gotten it back.

    All of the smart phones I've ever had contact with had emergency contacts that you could call from the locked screen. Wouldn't that have been just as easy to get the phone back to it's owner?
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Just a note to the people who don't lock your phones: You should, in case it gets stolen or lost. I'm the most careful/paranoid person ever, and I still ended up with my purse getting stolen earlier this year.

    You can share your pass codes with your spouses to keep the openness, etc., but seriously... lock your phones.

    I found a phone last week. It was unlocked. I dialed the last number called on it and set up a time they could pick it up. Had it been locked they probably would not have gotten it back.

    :drinker:
  • CountryDevil
    CountryDevil Posts: 819 Member
    I use my personal cell for work as well which has access to my corporate email. Due to the level of security I have for my job, I am required to lock it and not allow access to it by anyone but me. Other than the super secret information that is on my phone, I have nothing to hide except the occasional porn access and nude pics I have on there. If I were ever to lose it all I have to do is send a special code to an email address and it will be remotely wiped and deactivated.

    This drives the wife crazy, but she knows what is on there and I have nothing to hide.
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    No.Bo.Dy. Ever.

    There isn't anything on it that would incriminate me but it feels like my phone is... I'm not sure how to even describe this but it's like a part of me. When other people touch it I feel violated. HAH! Issues? Maybe.

    Yeah.

    Weird.
  • TKelly06
    TKelly06 Posts: 225 Member
    Both phones are fair game but neither of us have any reason to look at each others phones. It's all about trust!
  • lour441
    lour441 Posts: 543 Member
    Just a note to the people who don't lock your phones: You should, in case it gets stolen or lost. I'm the most careful/paranoid person ever, and I still ended up with my purse getting stolen earlier this year.

    You can share your pass codes with your spouses to keep the openness, etc., but seriously... lock your phones.

    I found a phone last week. It was unlocked. I dialed the last number called on it and set up a time they could pick it up. Had it been locked they probably would not have gotten it back.

    All of the smart phones I've ever had contact with had emergency contacts that you could call from the locked screen. Wouldn't that have been just as easy to get the phone back to it's owner?

    My phone has an emergency dialer but not emergency contacts. There might be an app for it though. QQ
  • coffee_rocks
    coffee_rocks Posts: 275 Member
    My cell phone is for work, and since I work for a large bank, it has layers of security on it. Every email, tweet, SMS, BBM and web page I surf is logged and recorded. Trust me, I only use that think for work related discussions.

    If my wife really wanted to look at it, I suppose she could, but it is pretty boring stuff.
  • Faericn_Rising
    Faericn_Rising Posts: 235
    My fiancee can pick up my phone, whenever he wants. I can do the same if i want to go on his phone.... we also know each other passwords for all our emails, facebooks, etc... we have nothing to hide, and are completely comfortable with this.
  • DaisyHamilton
    DaisyHamilton Posts: 575 Member
    I have a flip phone right now, so there isn't much to hide.
    However, even when I had a smart phone, I'd get angry when someone took my phone and looked through it without asking. If you ask, sure, go ahead. I won't hide or delete anything, just let me know first.
  • Louisianababy93
    Louisianababy93 Posts: 1,709 Member
    i don't care who looks at it, but, you might not like what you read, just a fair warning..Lol, aint no shame in my game.
  • Heather_Rider
    Heather_Rider Posts: 1,159 Member
    A cell phone is a probation officer's best friend. We look at them and the probationer's entire world is on there.
    But if I went to look at my own kid's phone all heck would break loose. I realize that's a parenting issue and believe me it has been addressed.
    My wife and I leave ours out in the open. Anyone can look at it anytime they want because we have nothing to hide.
    Is that the case with anyone else? Can your SO look at your phone? Or is it hands off? How about your children...can you look at theirs?

    MY CHILDRENS?

    BWAHAHAHAHA... i pay the damn bill, i will look at it any damn time i want to!!

    As far as my husbands? Hmmm.. i cant remember the time I looked at it, or him at mine.. Is that really an issue in marriages???
  • MissDevin
    MissDevin Posts: 608 Member
    I have an outgoing personality and I am super friendly, but when it comes to my personal life, I prefer to keep that private.
    (I guess you can say I am a half-open, half-closed book...ha)
    So, I prefer that only I look at MY cell phone because it is MY phone and I pay the bill, BUT if I had a significant other,
    then they can look at it all they want because I don't and won't have anything to hide.
  • angelique_redhead
    angelique_redhead Posts: 782 Member
    I have a flip phone. DH can look at it if he wants. I don't care. He lets me use his phones but I almost never ask unless I don't have mine with me. The daughter. Well, she doesn't want one. If she does I will monitor it till she's 18.
  • Redbird99ky
    Redbird99ky Posts: 305 Member
    My sweetheart and I have access to each other's phones/computers. Nothing to hide.
  • hbrittingham
    hbrittingham Posts: 2,518 Member
    I have a smartphone, my husband doesn't. I have a lock on the phone, but he knows the code and is welcome to look at anything he wants to. He's not very smartphone savvy, but I am sure he could find his way around if he thought I was doing something "wrong". He also has the password to my email and I have his password to his email. He is allowed to check my emails anytime he wants. I have nothing to hide and have no problems with his having access to anything of mine.
  • klacount77
    klacount77 Posts: 270 Member
    My sons phone is password protected. I dont look at it or through it. He pays the bill on it, he purchased the phone. However, on the rare occassion (there have been 2) that i have needed to use or wanted his password for his phone; he has been very willing to give it to me no questions asked. Perhaps I am naive, but that alone gives me confidence in trusting him further.

    I have never looked through my husband's phone. Never scoped out his call log or emails, never gone into his FB account or read texts between him and another woman (and he texts mostly women), so a password on his phone doesn't bother me. I dont care what is one his phone or who he talks to. Again, perhaps it is blind faith and trust ... but he is home every night, he provides well for his family and he showers me with love and attention.

    On the flip side, both my husband and my son think it is weird that I have no interest or desire to snoop through thier things or any of the other children's things. Both of them feel the need to snoop through mine. It gotto a point where unidentified numbers on my phone became an interrogation and accusation and upon call the number back was usually found to be a telemarketer or business related call. So now, my phone is password locked with something that is not attributable to anyone or thing in my family. My FB password is a series of symbols and numbers and my emails are also under password lock. I NEVER share these passwords with anyone. No one can use or touch my phone unless it is in my presence and I will quickly go ape *kitten* on anyone trying to read my texts, emails or listen in on my conversations.

    I think that my sanity is what was protected. Trust is HUGE in a family. If you dont trust the people around you, you and the untrusted person can both be in for a very rough ride.

    Good luck with your phone issue.

    My phone is my diary, my address book, my day planner, my calendar, my to do list, my shopping list, my social connection and my photo album, my scrap book, my GPS, and my personal assistant. It is very personal and it feels invasive when anyone looks at it or through it. Maybe I am the one with the trust issues.
  • DesireeLovesOrganic
    DesireeLovesOrganic Posts: 456 Member
    Neither my husband or I lock our phones but we don't look at each other's phones either....well not unless one of us hands it to the other like "Hey, look at this" or something. We leave them on the counter when we aren't using them, it's just the collect all spot for keys and mail too. LOL. Sometimes the kids steal one of our phones to play games (they don't have iPhones.) Our son has a phone (he's 10) but it's the old school flip shut kind. He has text but no internet. I have checked it before because I heard him say "Just text me, my mom is being a stalker" and it was nerd xbox game talk, nothing bad. He's generally a good kid so I don't feel like I have to check it that much but I am also his parent and not his BFF.
  • swarovski75
    swarovski75 Posts: 195 Member
    No.Bo.Dy. Ever.

    There isn't anything on it that would incriminate me but it feels like my phone is... I'm not sure how to even describe this but it's like a part of me. When other people touch it I feel violated. HAH! Issues? Maybe.

    Yeah.

    Weird.

    ^^THIS. :-) My phone is locked and I will reluctantly unlock it for my husband if he asks. He doesn't ask. :-)
  • misskerouac
    misskerouac Posts: 2,242 Member
    I have a password on mine because my work email is attached to it and I work for a financial institution so I need SOME sort of security on it in case I ever lost it or left it somewhere.

    However, my husband has asked me plenty of times to use my phone and I tell him the password. I don't have anything to hide but I also know he wouldn't go rifling through my emails, we trust each other.
  • tracypk
    tracypk Posts: 233 Member
    There was a time when I was not allowed to look through my SO phone. This made me want to. When I did sneak a peak I found out why he was being shady.
  • darleyschroeder
    darleyschroeder Posts: 322
    My husband and I have no guard over our phones. I truly believe that people who are over protective of their phone have something to hide.
  • Blacklance36
    Blacklance36 Posts: 755 Member
    My phone is personal. I dont want anyone looking at it ever, even though I dont have anything to hide. (I dont have a lock on my phone). It belongs to me just like my car and I dont let anyone else drive my car without asking permission.

    Its like my mail , let me open it please. I dont want anyone opening my e mails either. Are you trying to deprive me of these little pleasures in my life? If so why?

    Only a control freak or a suspicious jealous person needs to look at another persons personal e mails or phone or open their mail. Leave my stuff alone! I dont feel the need to share everything I have with someone else.

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