![]() She added: 'Solving the problem is always a bit of an arms race we have technology that allows us to do something, then we have to create the technology to help protect us.' When asked by the New York Times about sexting among teenagers, Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist with the Pew Research Center, said: 'What motivates teens is what motivates anyone who does this: You want to be in a relationship, you want to be desired, you want to be cool, or wild.' It adds that 'Messages, therefore, are sent at the risk of the user.' The firms privacy policy says that while it tries to erase photos quickly it, 'cannot guarantee that the message data will be deleted in every case.' The mixed messages coming from Snapchat lead back to the issue of whether the app itself is trustworthy. Sexting has become popular among teenagers in the USA - and abuse of graphic images has meant heart-ache for some The CEO said that the app is 'not about privacy, per se' and pointed to screen cap notifications, the requirement that users must know their recipients usernames on the app and the fact that photos must be sent live.' In response to concerns, Spiegel told BuzzFeed that the Snapchat team is 'trying to do a better job educating our users and their parents,' and that he was looking to add more guidance materials to their website soon. ![]() However, the Stanford graduate seems to have only grasped the lengths to which teens will go to get their sexual kicks - which they do increasingly through smartphones. It doesn’t seem that fun when you can have real sex.' 'I’m not convinced that the whole sexting thing is as big as the media makes it out to be,' he said. However, the program does not stop the recepient from taking a quick screenshot nor can it prevent another phone or camera taking a picture of the original image.Īll this has led to discussions of the apps potential use for sexting among teenagers despite Spiegel denying that his social media photo tool could promote it. Unfortunately, he also managed to tweet them to everyone else too. ![]() Congressman Anthony Weiner sent lewd pictures of himself to a 21-year-old student via Twitter.
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