Who can look at your cell phone???

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  • vice350z
    vice350z Posts: 1,066 Member
    I got my texts, pics and videos under password lock down. Some friends and co-workers love to just pick up phones and snoop through them.
  • Sweetpea472
    Sweetpea472 Posts: 229 Member
    Anyone can look at mine anytime. My daughter (20yrs old) is out of the house (even though we still pay for her phone), but my son (16yrs old) has a lock on his phone that I'd like to (in a very subtle fashion) break. That's where my husband & I differ - he wants to just take his phone away... I want to get into it and creep him out because I know so much about his world. I guess that makes me a really ****ty mom. (And BTW, unless whatever is going on is ridiculously bad, I'm not going to rat on the kids involved.)
  • Eavie0513
    Eavie0513 Posts: 40 Member
    I just got a GEN-U-INE smart phone after like 5 years of a flip phone... My new life has just begun. But, I am who I am and anyone is welcome to take a look-see!
  • x__chrissy__x
    x__chrissy__x Posts: 123
    Anyone with a warrant! :)
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
    anyone, I have nothing to hide.
  • n2thenight24
    n2thenight24 Posts: 1,651 Member
    Forgot to add that my kids are only 5 and 8, so no cell phones yet. But I imagine that when they get cell phones, that I will have access whenever I like. Especially if they were to get grounded from the phone, and I had to take it and have it in my possession, my children's privacy comes in long behind their safety imo, I will also be checking to make sure they are not texting while in school or driving.
  • Sister_Someone
    Sister_Someone Posts: 567 Member
    My best friend... and that's it. In fact, even she can look only because there's nothing she can find on there that she doesn't know yet. Anyone else and I'd freak.
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    I don't even know where my phone is half the time.

    That being said, I don't really care who looks at it.
  • fcp1234
    fcp1234 Posts: 1,098 Member
    We leave the phones out in the open..hubby can look at it if he wants..but he doesnt and I dont look at his..who cares..
    I will grab his phone only if I have to make a call and mine is dead or something.

    My son is 15 months old and he loves phones, but he really is not looking at anything, he just plays with it
  • Froggy1976
    Froggy1976 Posts: 472
    My husband is free to look at my phone whenever he wants and I am free to look at his, but we don't often. My kids have a phone that they share, we use it as a house phone because we do not have a land line. I routinely check that phone because my boys use it to text their friends and stuff. The rule is if they would be embarrassed for me to read their texts they shouldn't be saying it. They know this and I usually have no problems.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    No one can look at my cell phone or my computer without asking. I find it incredibly rude and violation of privacy. I don't even have anything to hide. No idea why I'm so possessive.
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    I don't have any kids so that's not an issue. With regards to my husband I don't hide anything from him. He knows the password to my screen lock on my phone and knows all the ring tones that I use for my friends. If I get a text or a call and I'm not around he'll answer them. I have no issue with that. Same with his phone. Since some people he deals with for his business call him on his cell if I hear it ring I'll run out and answer it.

    I also know pretty much all of his passwords on things and vice versa.
  • samanthawarren
    samanthawarren Posts: 120
    I don't have a lock on my phone. My husband can look anytime he wants. He just doesn't. He is afraid of the smartphone.:wink: My husband doesn't have a smartphone but sometimes he will ask me to check his text messages for him. He has no problem with me taking his phone when mine is charging.

    When my kids are old enough for phones I know I will have access, especially if I am paying for it. I know kids who have really gotten into a lot of trouble that they could have been helped with if only their parents could access their facebook, phone, computer whatever.

    I see a need for increased freedom as kids get older. I need to know they are using that freedom responsibly. After all their brains aren't fully developed yet.
  • laural007
    laural007 Posts: 251 Member
    I'm single. Thusly no one should be looking at my phone unless I've died and they're trying to delete the sext & porn before my parents find it.

    Well said, same goes for me.
  • tomomatic
    tomomatic Posts: 1,794 Member
    Hide your cell phone.
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  • HellsKells
    HellsKells Posts: 671 Member
    Right now...I'm the only one that looks at it. And I like it that way.
  • scs143
    scs143 Posts: 2,190 Member
    My kids are always taking it and my husband asks me to use the Internet but don't help ourselves to each others phone. And I would like it to stay that way. Please and thank you.
  • NormalSaneFLGuy
    NormalSaneFLGuy Posts: 1,344 Member
    Anyone can look at my phone.... after they pry it from my cold dead hands.
    I believe in privacy and I would never even ask to look at anyone else's and therefore would never let anyone go through my on. It's tantamount to going through someone's mail or private journal. I am currently developing an app for my phone to whipe everything off of it if they enter the password wrong 10 times. =)
  • SPBROOKS68
    SPBROOKS68 Posts: 561 Member
    Only me.
    There's too much in there: pictures, text messages, etc. It would be an invasion of privacy for someone to go through it.

    This had to put a PIN lock on mine so that my kids would stay out of my business:noway:
  • cirisse
    cirisse Posts: 2
    If my boyfriend asked I would let him have a look - but he understands that I have a real need for privacy and my own space (growing up in a family of 11 does that to you). With anyone else nooo way - I keep most of my app's open and I don't want them looking at my period tracker, personal diary, or My Fitness Pal :happy:
  • ginandchocolate
    ginandchocolate Posts: 72 Member
    No one has access but me and it's password protected. When my son is of the age to have a cell phone, you better believe I will have full access.
  • NormalSaneFLGuy
    NormalSaneFLGuy Posts: 1,344 Member
    I saw a nurse app for hospitals to track diaper changes and what color the poo was inside of it (bloody, green, etc). Now that would be an app to leave open for others to see on your phone.
  • toomuchbootyindapants
    toomuchbootyindapants Posts: 811 Member
    My daughter is 14 and does not have a phone. She was, however, using the third line I got for our home (for when hubs and I go out and leave her home to babysit). I found her sneaking and texting *gasp* a BOY....and she had been deleting all the history and covering things up by changing names in the contacts. I was devastated, truth be told, because she has always been such a *good* girl. Oh well, she's growing up...hormones and all that crap. Anyway, I disabled the texting and other than that, it's not a smart phone so *sticks tongue out* to her.

    As for my husband - his is open and out and I'm invited to look at it whenever I want. I do, occasionally, since we've had some "history" and trust issues. Mine is also available to him, although I lock it (he knows the code), because I don't want my kids picking it up and scrolling through and seeing those special pictures mommy takes for daddy. Heh.

    Aside from him - NOBODY betta be looking at my phone. Unless they wanna see a whole lot off TnA in their face. ;)
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    Aside from him - NOBODY betta be looking at my phone. Unless they wanna see a whole lot off TnA in their face. ;)

    Yep, I do.
  • AmberLee2012
    AmberLee2012 Posts: 540
    I ask my husband to answer my phone and answer back texts for me all the time when I'm doing something else. He always has me text back on his when he's driving. I have the password to his Facebook and he has mine. He never goes on mine but he could if he wanted. I go on his to send myself balls for Slingo LOL. That's the one Facebook game I actually play. Anyway, I think it's a good thing to be open. I don't know why you wouldn't want your long term SO looking at your phone or Facebook unless there was stuff on there you didn't want them to see.

    As for your children, I definitely think you should be able to look at their phones, especially if you are footing the bill. If they are paying their own bill, now that's a different story.
  • 1plumpmom
    1plumpmom Posts: 15 Member
    I had all the bells and whistles on our phones but due to nasty pics and messages ppl send out, I got rid of all the bells and whistles and got basic phones with basic service. You dont have anything to hide and no temptations or secrets this way. I am old fashion! We dont even use facebook, twitter, etc....
  • tadpole242
    tadpole242 Posts: 507 Member
    I check up on my daughter’s phone, I don’t need her phone to do it, or even be in the same part of the country, I do it remotely from a PC, and anyone with the right knowledge can see what is on a phone even if it has been deleted. Everything from what and where the text/call/download was made/sent, up to and including long deleted voice and text messages.
  • NormalSaneFLGuy
    NormalSaneFLGuy Posts: 1,344 Member
    I had all the bells and whistles on our phones but due to nasty pics and messages ppl send out, I got rid of all the bells and whistles and got basic phones with basic service. You dont have anything to hide and no temptations or secrets this way. I am old fashion! We dont even use facebook, twitter, etc....

    Well, I'm one of those nasty people who does nasty things on their phone... but even I have to give you a high five for not using facebook or twitter. I hate those sites/apps. Facebook and twitter are ruining civilization. As soon as a news show says "now to what's happening on twitter-," I change channels.
  • NormalSaneFLGuy
    NormalSaneFLGuy Posts: 1,344 Member
    I check up on my daughter’s phone, I don’t need her phone to do it, or even be in the same part of the country, I do it remotely from a PC, and anyone with the right knowledge can see what is on a phone even if it has been deleted. Everything from what and where the text/call/download was made/sent, up to and including long deleted voice and text massages.

    Maybe you should stop sending "text massages" ;)
  • tadpole242
    tadpole242 Posts: 507 Member
    I check up on my daughter’s phone, I don’t need her phone to do it, or even be in the same part of the country, I do it remotely from a PC, and anyone with the right knowledge can see what is on a phone even if it has been deleted. Everything from what and where the text/call/download was made/sent, up to and including long deleted voice and text massages.

    Maybe you should stop sending "text massages" ;)
    lol I hate auto-correct

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