Spying on your Kids

In all honesty, i think that spying on your children is alot more okay than it was back in the day.
Back in the day, there was no Myspace or Facebook, no public chatrooms or MMORPGs that
allowed your children to communicate with perverts and pedophiles. I still think that invading your kid's privacy behind their backs is wrong, invading personal space is traumatizing, whether your'e 6 or 25 years old.
I think that theres a lot of kids out there that get treated quite badly because their parents are paranoid. It's different when kids are visibly problematic, looking stoned all the time or starting to wear less than appropriate attire. Or If you're worried about their self-esteem, like they may have suicidal tendencies.
Kids are very impressionable, and yet they're all different. I think the steps that parents take to protect their children need to be out of love and not out of anger. If you're worried about your kid, then thats one thing, but invading their personal space is not a good reward for achievement and effort, especially if your kid is already on the sensitive side.
If a parent truly cares about their kid, then they should be able to find the courage to confront them. Spying on them and going through their personal things is taking just as big of a risk as confronting them, if not bigger. Kids may be impressionable, but they also have feelings and need to be able to understand why parents have to know about certain things. Building a relationship is hundreds of times more important then trying to find out whether or not they're smoking dope or having sex.