The typical American adolescent transmits an average of around 100 SMS text messages every day. A shocking One-fifth of youth say they have sent or posted nude or seminude ‘zexting’ images, potentially a serious zex crime. Eighty percent of all automotive crashes in the United States involve distracted motorists, killing thousands of teenagers every year.
New cell phone monitoring software applications that incorporate client-side and web applications to capture SMS text messages, cell phone GPS location, sent and received mobile phone call logs information and sends it to an online secure account or forwards it to an email address.
The latest smartphones are the cell phones with computer-like capabilities. Brands like BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia Symbian ? all have spyware software for sale. Spy Call and Call Intercept mobile phone tapping require that the target phone uses a GSM network. Over three million smartphones a month are sold in North America, and they?re reaching almost one hundred and fifty million sold per year around the world.
Recent studies published by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy found that about 20% of teens (ages 13-19) and an incredible 33% of young adults (ages 20-26) have shared nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves either over mobile phone SMS text messages or by posting on the web. Teenage girls are slightly more likely to do this than boys and a very distressing 11% of the young teen girls (ages 13-16) admitted to sending suggestive photos of themselves.
Published in a study from market researchers The Nielsen Company (blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/under-aged-texting-usage-and-actual-cost/) American young people transmit an unbelievable average of 10 SMS texts per hour that they are not in school or sleeping ? and most likely a lot during school too. Pew Research points out that sending provocative images happens most often under one of three typical scenarios: The first, exchanges of images just between two romantic partners; the next, lists exchanges between partners that are then shared outside the relationship; followed by, exchanges between people who are not yet in a relationship, but with one person hoping there will be one.
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