popular features available and increasingly considered as intrinsic to
a mobile handset.
Currently 4 million UK youth own a camera enabled handset, with
this figure set to double to 8 million by 2007, leaving just 46% of
youth without a camera enabled handset. The camera phone’s simplicity looks set to drive the popularity of services such as MMS and ‘photo flirting’.
Mobileyouth.org says:
"With ‘Photo flirting’ becoming a new trend among young adults, many
are concerned that this has allowed teenagers to become intimate
quicker, whilst retaining the illusion of being safe and discreet.
Also there’s
always the possibility that these portable pictures will get into the
wrong hands. With the ‘always to hand’ nature of camera phones and usage
patterns among the young set to evolve further, they look set to become
a sign of the times."
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Some more thoughts from Ad Age:
Fourteen percent of the world’s cell phone users report that they have stopped in the middle of a sex act to answer a ringing wireless device. The highest percentage was found in Germany and Spain, where 22% of users interrupted sex to answer their cell phones; the lowest was in Italy, where only 7% reported doing so. In the U.S., 15% say they practice cell phone interruptus.
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More than half of the respondents, 52%, said they used a mobile phone to flirt.
http://adage.com/news.cms?newsId=44753
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April 12th, 2005 at 10:43 pm