We live in an amazing era where technological advances are developed at an incredible rate. Things like instant messages and tweets and multipurpose mobile phones didn’t even exist as possibilities when our parents were children. However, they are part of our reality now.

And it’s part of an ongoing process that never stops. First, it was Facebook, then Youtube, now Twitter and tomorrow, who knows?

Hardware is also in constant development to try to catch up and to deliver the biggest number of services in a single gadget. Perhaps the mobile phone is now the example of what the future holds for us. While it was developed at first as a phone that could be used anywhere, the mobile phone is now used for sending messages, taking pictures, recording video and audio, checking e-mail, carrying financial and banking information, etc.

And now, with mobile phone spy software, you can even spy on mobile phones!

Which brings us to the question, why would you want to do that?

As with any controversial issue, it all depends on your point of view and your purpose. Let’s take real country-to-country spying as an example. Your country’s secret agents that are spying on your country’s enemies are considered heroes. On the other hand, your country’s enemies’ agents that are spying on your country are considered dangerous.

In the same way, if you spy on mobile phones to find out private information, then you’re doing something morally wrong and illegal (and sellers of mobile spy software will cooperate with law enforcement agencies to make sure you get caught). On the other hand, if you spy on mobile phones to protect your family and money, then it’s a different thing altogether.

Also, let’s get one thing clear. You just CAN’T spy on mobile phones that aren’t yours. People that think that by buying a mobile spy software program they can spy on their neighbors and friends, just don’t understand how such software works.

In order to spy on mobile phones, those phones must be YOURS (or your company’s). It is ILLEGAL to do it on mobile phones that belong to anyone else.

With the moral and legal issues behind us, we can then answer the question. Why would we want to spy on mobile phones?

The answer is the same reason why we have secret agents: to protect our loved ones.

Any parent who is concerned about his or her kid’s safety will immediately understand the potential benefits of this. Wouldn’t you like to know the location of your children at all times? Wouldn’t you like to know if a bully is harassing your child and intimidating them into silence? Wouldn’t you like to know if a drug dealer is trying to get your children started in drugs? And if your children were into drugs or alcohol, wouldn’t you like to know it so you could do something about it?

So, as you can see, when you spy on mobile phones with current mobile spy software, you’re just being a responsible parent.

Mobile phone spy software is now becoming increasingly popular. More and more people are getting it and installing on mobiles for their family and employees.

However, just like anything new, some people are afraid to get mobile phone spy software or use it. They think that it is something that will allow users to hack into other phones and listen to private conversations. Or they imagine that this software can be used to obtain secret information from other devices, as if it automatically turned their phones into a hi-tech gadget that came from a James Bond movie.

I guess the word “spy” in mobile phone spy software reminds them of James Bond and all types of hacking that they see in movies (which, by the way, are completely different from real life hacking methods). However, just because there is the term “spy” in mobile phone spy software, it doesn’t mean you become a movie spy with it; just like using Paypal doesn’t involve a close friend paying your bills and yahoo won’t make you shout with excitement. People who believe that this kind of software is something that came from Q’s laboratory are watching too many movies.

Mobile phone spy software is actually very different. It’s used mostly in two ways.

The first one is as a way to keeping control of one’s family members. With mobile phone spy software installed, you can know if your kids are at school, like they said they would be. You can also see if dangerous people are trying to sell them drugs or intimidate them. And of course, you might even find out if they are smoking or drinking as well.

The second way that the software is used is for controlling expenses related to company mobile phones given to employees.

Today, more and more companies are providing their employees (specially their sales staff), with laptops and mobile phones so that they can be in contact with the company and with the clients at all time, even when traveling. Limiting long distance calls renders the mobile phones ineffective, specially when clients are located in another state or country. One would like to think that employees would refrain from using the mobile phones to call friends in other countries or states since it’s a company phone. However, the temptation is great and it’s so easy to make a “free” call. When several employees do this on a regular basis, it can become a financial burden on the company.

So, as you can see, mobile phone spy software won’t send you any love from Russia; but it certainly will let you protect your loved ones and your money as well.