Email recorders can be a great tool to keep your children safe and away from the dangerous people that like to prey on young children. Different email recorders have different levels of detection, but they all will record emails and store them for you review. This can be a great way to keep track of what your kids are doing. Email recorders will let you know if your children are engaging in conversations with people that they shouldn’t be or are involved in activities that you wouldn’t approve of such as gang affiliation or drug use.
Not all email recorders work as well as others. Some do not have the capability to monitor emails from certain programs, so when you decide to purchase one make sure that it can record from all the popular email clients and services that you and your children use. To save your time and a lot of disc space most email recorders will only record emails based on specific keywords that you give it. That way you will only have to read the emails that you specifically might have concerns with. When using keywords, it is a good idea to use a wide range of terms that pertain to drugs, alcohol, gangs, sex, and other dangers that you might want to keep a handle on. You might even want to misspell some keywords. A lot of people don’t spell properly when sending out emails and email recorders will not be able to pick up one your keywords if they are misspelled. Trying using keywords where a few of the letters are missing or arranged in the wrong order. You will be glad you did when an email comes through that might not have seen otherwise.
Remember though, that even though you are a parent and you want to keep your kids away from the dangers of the world, they are entitled to some privacy. You shouldn’t use email recorders to read through every piece of email that they have. As a parent you always want to know everything that is going on in your kid’s life, but you shouldn’t be snooping for that information. Instead, ask your kid things that you want to know and only use email recorders to monitor for those illegal or potentially dangerous things that your child might be involved in.
