Hello, I’m the product manager for OnlineFamily.Norton, and I wanted to get your opinion about a new feature we were considering.
Many parents that we’ve talked to have told us that it’s a real challenge to keep track of what their kids are doing online, and when they’re online – especially if kids have laptops in their own rooms, etc. When parents walk by the computer, kids often will “ALT+TAB” to shift the browser window they were looking at out of focus.
To help out with this, we were considering adding a feature on the homepage that allows parents to view a indicator showing how many kids are currently online in real-time, and that also allows parents to do a quick check to see what kids are up to. Parents would click a button, and would see a screenshot of what their kids were doing on the computer.
This is something that would need to be very visible to the kids, though, so that they know parents can do this. So, if this feature were enabled, kids would see the ability to do a ‘screen check’ listed in their house rules, and as the parent was clicking a snapshot, kids would also see a very clear indicator that parents were doing a check (the snapshot would be taken before kids had a chance to move away windows).
· What do you think about this feature?
· If you had to rate it on a scale of 1-10 (1=hate it 10=love it), what would you rate it?
· Would this be useful to you or not, and why?
Feel free to comment, or send me a private message w/ your thoughts!
Example View: Homepage
Parents will see when kids are online, and be able to check-up on them and request a screen grab
Example View: Child’s Screenshot
Children will see a notification when parents request a screenshot