<p>Boy, did I learn to listen to my parents the hard way. MY parents always preached “never trust the internet” and “nothing is ever free in life”. I suppose I casually dismissed such claims, foolishly thinking I knew more than my parents did. Well, that changed quite recently. </p>
<p>Nothing in life comes for free is supposed to be a no brainer but i never really fully understood the meaning of it until it was too late, before i was scammed. I used a service offering “free plagiarism detection” and i decided to submit an essay to it (well, somewhat luckily for me the said essay was just a draft of an essay I wrote over a year ago. Thankfully i used an unimportant essay to trest it out). The service didnt even give me a % of potential plagiarism and it merely took my essay for their own use(i presume of sale or viewing sample or something). There’s nothing I could do after i realized I had been scammed/hoodwinked/whatever you want to call this but I guess this was a good life experience. The said detection service also mysteriously disappeared…</p>
<p>The fact here is that I learned to A)listen to my parents and B) never trust the internet. take the extra step to ensure teh validity of something. People always preach these things but it just took a moment like this to fully understand it. </p>
<p>Today I learned (or re-learned if you will) that parents typically know what’s best.</p>
<p>Glad you learned, but that is not the “hard” way by any stretcn. There are a lot of people out there who have paid a very heavy price for not listening to their parents. having to write a new essay is not too bad.</p>
<p>well, you learn either by listening and understanding the first time. Or learning when something bites you in the ass. THe latter is the harder of the two though i will sort of agree with its not that hard lol</p>
<p>OP, I’m glad you learned something from this – I would generalize what you learned to “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” – and I’m glad you didn’t have to pay too heavy a price for the lesson. We parents aren’t perfect, but we’ve been around the block a few times and have often learned things the hard way ourselves. We know you teens don’t appreciate our advice, but it’s always offered in your best interest, and usually worth heeding.</p>
<p>Sounds like typically useless classical parental advice. Warn you about the dangers of something that you effectively cannot avoid using, don’t tell you how to avoid all the potential risks (because nobody can be 100% safe or sure). Wait and wait until something however minor goes wrong, and BINGO they were right!!</p>
<p>Maybe your parents should never have told you anything, this way they never have to be right and unfairly take credit for something that would eventually happen anyway. Why did they raise you up anyway, should have thrown you out from birth and let you find out things for yourself.</p>