Can anyone tell me if theres a way to go back and look in aol im - We had a problem with a 12 year old girl saying some very sexual things through there and forward. it to her mother-said stuff like "I want to f#$@ my dad and I wish my nipples were more dev. so when he sucked on them Id have a better orgasm"
Her mother still lets her have the internet in her bedroom even after I sent this crap to her! Now she is doing these things to others in my daughters class and was just wondering if there was a way her mother could go look to see what was being said. (mes. archive) I know yahoo has it but was wondering about aol.
You might want to take a deep breath and try writing that again so that it makes some sort of sense.
The application you use is more important than which service. Looks in the prefs for “Save Chat Log” or something similar and try to find the folder they’re saved in from there.
1 - This for all of its harshness looks to be a GQ thing
2 - You appear to be asking if old IM posts can be revived - I doubt it. I have friends who use IM when they do not want to leave paper trails (or any trails) of their discussions.
3 - If the girl continues to act innapropriately you can
Whoops -
If the girl acts innapropriately you can
- Have your daughter block her from access to your daughter's IM
- Screen capture the offending messages and show them to the girl's mother
- Tell the girl's mother anyway and have her deal with itThere’s some third-party net nanny type software that will log all AIM conversations.
My buddy uses it to keep a tab on his son. When he was like 13 or 14 he was telling his AIM buddies about all these girls he had 3-way sex with when he went to Canada… Funny, funny stuff.
I’ll see if I can find out what software it was he uses.
gAIM (another free IM client, compatible with AOL IM) allows conversations to be logged and viewed later.
MiddleMan and DeadAIM are AIM enhancement programs (meaning AIM must already be installed) that allow logging. MiddleMan is free, but you have to pay for DeadAIM.
I suggest, however, that you simply block her from your daughter’s IM, and encourage her classmates’ parents to do the same. You already sent it to the girl’s mother, she knows and has apparently done nothing about it.
There likely is- I know that on MSN if you click “file”, “Open Message History”, you can retrieve all of the messages that have been sent back and forth for each person you send to.
That said, I agree with Mercury- if you already told her and she’s done nothing about it, why bother? Is it that she just doesn’t believe you? I also agree about blocking her from sending messages to your daughter.
When I had AIM I found it didn’t save conversations unless you specifically asked it to after the conversation ended, unless they changed that or I didn’t know something about it.
Turns out my buddy was likely using deadAIM.
I wouldn’t recommend DeadAIM for this purpose; it seems to decide at random whether it’s going to log my convos or not. It will log everything for about a week, then it’ll stop for a while, then it’ll log one sentence but omit the rest…whatever it feels like doing. I think gAIM works better for this purpose. Good luck.
Trillian (which is compatible with AIM) does save the conversations. Click on someone’s name and then choose “Message History” from the top.
AIM+ automatically saves all conversations. I’ve never had a problem with lost convos. You can also run two different names at once for multiple people on one computer.
I’ll second the recommendation for Trillian. It saves all of the conversations as plain text files which are easily accessed by right clicking the person’s nickname and selecting ‘Show Log’.
It also stamps the start and stop of each conversation with the exact date and time.
You’re sure this was a 12-year-old girl?
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