I believe that there has always been a need or a draw for parents to know whats going on in their kids life. With a platform so easily observed by parents, the temptation can be strong. However, the lives of children are their own lives, and therefore they should have privacy. If live journal is a way people express themselves it should not be monitored. That would change the way they wrote, and they would probably eventually stop alltogether. Image if your parents had tagged along with you to woodstock or some other event of free expression, i'm sure your parent's worry would not be appreciated.
Often, teenagers use the websites as an online diary. As Emily nussbaum points out in her article, "my so called blog," "But a significant number of writers treat their journals as actual diaries, toting up daily accounts of their lives. A parent by all rights should not look into their child's diary, it is an infringment on their privacy. The template is different when used online, but the concept is the same. Kids need to grow up on their own, make their own right and wrong choices and develop their own experiences. What if the government started analyzing everything the parents did,(cough cough the patriot act). Parents would not like it; they did not get to vote on this event, and neither did their kids. I guess in the end we should all just mind our own business!
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