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Learn to Record Chat Conversations in Seconds
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If you have young children or teenagers in your home, you know that watching over them can be a full time job. You need every little bit of help you can get keeping them safe including on the Internet. It seems there are daily news stories involving a teenager who was talked into meeting an adult online and those stories seldom end well. You can keep a watchful eye on who your teen chats with by learning to record chat conversations online. Along with setting up individual chat clients to save all private chats, you can also use parental control software to record chat conversations, as well. Let’s take a look at how you set up these various clients to protect your family.
One of the most popular chat programs in the world is MSN Messenger. It is free to use and often comes preinstalled on most Windows XP and Vista machines. Not only can you chat in real time with people all over the world, you can also connect via webcam or use microphones so that voice chat can be initialized. If you are looking to record chat conversations in MSN, simply click Tools, thank Options. Once the options window opens, click on the Messages tab and about half way down, you’ll see a box for logging all conversations. You can set which folder the conversations are saved to so that only you know where it is.
Along with MSN, Yahoo Messenger is another extremely popular chat program that is also free. Yahoo mirrors MSN in many different ways by allowing for free and instant web cam conversations and audio chat, as well. Setting up Yahoo to record chat conversations is very simple. Just click preferences and click the box that logs conversations. You have the same flexibility to save the chat logs to any directory you wish. One advantage that Yahoo has over some other forms of chat is the fact that it now communicates with people using MSN, as well, removing the need to have both programs.
Maybe the most popular place for teens to chat these days is on Facebook. When you are logged onto the site, you can chat with anyone in your friend’s list. Although social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have some basic parental controls to limit what kids can and can’t do, unfortunately, there is no built-in way to log these web-based chats, but you can use computer monitoring software such as Web Watcher, to record this information.
Finally, essentially every major parental control program on the market today like Web Watcher, NetNanny, Cyber Patrol and others come with an automatic chat logging feature. Every program requires a different configuration, but for the most part, it shouldn’t be difficult to set up. You can also use these programs to completely forbid chat use for some users, such as your teenage children, but not for adults. Make sure you read the instructions that come with your parental control software to learn how.
Learning to record chat conversations only takes a minute and you can once again sleep peacefully at night knowing that your family is properly protected.
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