How to Track Internet History Through Email & Chat
Charting or checking Internet history means figuring out what someone has been doing online. People communicate online in many ways, but email and chat programs are the most common. If you have access to email account and chat passwords, you can track Internet history through the email and online chats.
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Instructions
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Through Email
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Log in to the person's email account, with the password.
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Click on "sent" messages to read the emails written by the account holder. Click on "inbox" to read the emails they have received.
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Check any email folders for emails they have saved. As you read the emails, you can get an idea of what they are doing online. Through links in emails, you can have some idea of where they go on the Internet.
Through Chat Programs
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Open up a chat program and log in using the chat login and password of the person you would like to research.
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Click on individual chat partners or "buddies" listed in their chat program. If they have saved their chat histories, or if the program saves chat histories automatically, you have access to the conversations.
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Check the "saved chats" box or link that many chat programs have to see if the user has saved any specific chats. You can read through them.
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Tips & Warnings
Some email programs, like Gmail, include all messages sent and received, as well as all chats in Gmail chat, as message conversations. This makes it very easy to read through emails or chats to get an idea of what someone is up to online.
If you do not have someone's password, or they have not saved copies of emails or their chat records, you probably cannot access their history, unless you contact the companies directly and present them with a logical or a legal need for the information.
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