When my neice and her children(whom my daughter is very close to) moved to another state, I purchased a webcam. My daughter used it about a week or two then started feeling like she was being watched, so she unplugged it. We moved this last Feb. and it is still in a box somewhere. This is a person that loves IMs, texting, taking pictures of herself and posting them, but she was afraid when she was unaware, someone may see her.