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posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday September 30 2014, @11:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the nobody-calls-anymore dept.

It’s time to face the naked truth. According to the New York Daily News the latest celebrity phone hacking scandal hasn't stopped or even slowed people down from taking naked selfies. In fact the McAfee security company’s 2014 Love, Relationships & Technology survey reveals that 54% of their respondents regularly send or receive intimate photos, videos, texts and emails, and that number spikes to 70% when it comes to those aged 18 to 24. "I can only think of two people my age who haven't done it. It becomes like a sort of weird correspondence. If I snapchat someone a pic, they would send one back," says Julia, a 22-year-old English student, "It's sort of like a flirty thing, you meet a boy on a night out, you'd snapchat him a picture instead of texting him."

“If you’re taking selfies on a regular basis, that is going to get boring,” says John Suler, a member of the editorial board for the journal, Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking. “So it becomes more risque, and that eventually leads to nude photos.” The desire to capture the naked body and share it with others is nothing new. “Every new medium that comes along, from cave paintings onward, no sooner does the medium get invented then people start using it for nudes,” says Robert Thompson, a pop-culture historian at Syracuse University. “We’ve found very explicit nude paintings on the walls of Pompeii.” While abstaining from taking nudies altogether is the only way to guarantee they won’t leak, it’s not a realistic approach for many. It’s more practical to password protect your phone and photo storage, doublecheck the recipient before hitting “send,” and to only sext someone you trust completely. “We have decided that the things we like to do online are things we like so much that we’re willing to take the risk,” says Thompson. “I know my credit card is not totally secure anywhere online... but I am willing to take that chance because I want to be able to order things online.”

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:47PM (#100034)

    I think you replied to the wrong comment.
    assumption... and wrong...

    Some photos were probably seen by 6 or 7 people
    Still can't see the difference?

    That if you dont control it you probably shouldnt give it away? No not really.

    The *only* difference is scope now. Instead of a few dozen seeing it whole websites can be dedicated to seeing them. My point is *if* we could have done it back then. We would have. To make this like its something 'new' and 'get off my lawn' is looking at your youth thru rose colored glasses.

    My other point you glossed over was most people are scumbags. People who use emotional blackmail to take pictures like this. Then 2 share them. They have little moral compass saying 'dont do that you are being a scumbag'. And your buddy who had a collection is a scumbag too. People trusted him to be private and he broke that trust.

    and YES I am in a bad mood today :)

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:54PM (#100038)

    > The *only* difference is scope now.

    And scope is a HUGE FUCKING DIFFERENCE.

    Scope is the problem with all of the internet. We live in a society that evolved when large-scale privacy invasions where made impossible by physical limits. Those limits are mostly gone now but we as a society are still trying to figure out how to cope with that.

  • (Score: 2) by morgauxo on Monday October 06 2014, @06:59PM

    by morgauxo (2082) on Monday October 06 2014, @06:59PM (#102567)

    >> People trusted him to be private and he broke that trust.

    That kind of makes it sound a lot more personal than it was. They didn't trust him. They trusted a well known large chain of mainly grocery stores which also happened to have photo developing.

    If they actually thought about who was developing the photos they would have realized they were handing their nudie pics to a college boy being paid minimum wage to work part time between classes. And they expected what exactly??

    Most likely I don't think the customers were thinking about things at all. They were probably just thinking, drop film plus money here, get photos an hour later... like they were using a machine. Then again, maybe some did think it through and they also realized that they didn't know the kid and most likely didn' t know any of his friends. Whatever he might have done with the pics.. it would never get back to them, never really affect them so whatever, who cares? Let him build up his own personal spank collection.

    There was a way to control your photos in the bast btw... develop your own pictures. That may not have been a hugely popular thing to do but it was never unheard of, especially whan it involved nudes. Actually, I suppose you still can. Or get a good printer and non-internet enabled camera to print them. It's only if you need the convenience of having your nude selfies on a networked machine where you can share them at any time from anywhere that you HAVE to set yourself up for exposure. But put like that it kind of sounds like you are getting what you ask for doesn't it...