US kids busy bullying, sexy texting A survey of 655 US teenagers aged 13 to 18 has revealed disturbing amounts of bullying going on via the mobile phone networks, despite the fact that most of them seem to understand the risks of sharing too much data online. The Teen Online and Wireless Safety survey was carried out by Cox communications in conjunction with the …
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If I had a teenaged kid I would be thinking six times about a mobile phone for them.
Paris, cos she aint a teenager and she still got fucked up by her phone.
I demand a playmobil construction, preferably with that ridiculous camera-phone pose where they hold it up over their heads, going "LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEE" or similar.
My mim always told me to stop looking at pr0n, or id go blind, so now i wear safety goggles when i am exposed to the stuff.
FFS! Don't poll teens! They're full of sh1t at the best of times.
I don't know of a single teenager in the age bracket surveyed that would have told the truth when asked "have you ever sent or recieved a nude mms".
All the boys will say 'yes' to both, half the girls would have said 'yes' to receiving and all of them would have been talking b0ll0cks!
"More cyber-specific, perhaps, is the preponderance of girls involved in over-the-air bullying, with 59 per cent of bullies being female."
This shouldn't be at all surprising. Typically female bullying is done via words (eg: gossip, etc) where as typical male bullying is done with physical intimidation (eg: fists, etc).
"and even the parents who were aware don't seem to be making any attempt to control the usage."
We're talking about 13-18 year olds here, right? While 13 may be a little young, by the time a teen is 18, you can damn well bet I'm not going to be "making any attempt to control their internet usage."
The fact is, I was 15 years old when I left home for school, was exposed to all sorts of freaks and deviants on the net, and came out just fine. After a certain age, it all comes down to how you raised the kid, not how well you can keep them locked in a padded box.
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Although those results don't look unbelievable I'd like to point out, for those who may not know, just what NCMEC is.
It's the US version of a quango, funded by the government, but supposedly not part of it. They have what is probably one of the worlds largest collections of child porn. They have a hotline for reporting suspected child sexual abuse, but they specifically reject reports of intra-family molestation, which as you probably know is the most common kind.
They claim they help find missing children, but in reality their primary business is aiding in the capture and return of minors who escape from their owners, I mean parents. Never mind that they may have run away for a *very* good reason. Think about it.
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