A survey of 1,280 teenagers (users age 13-19) and young adults (age 20-26) conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGirl.com has revealed that one out of five (20 percent) teens overall have posted nude photos or video of themselves on the Internet—that number goes up to a third when young adults are included. While 71 percent of teen girls and 67 percent of teen guys who have sent these photos say they've sent them to a boyfriend or girlfriend, 15 percent overall said they've sent nude photos to people they only "knew" online. For women, that percentage stays the same when they turn into young adults, although the percentage of young adult men goes up to 23 percent.Read More from ars technica.
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
20% of teens say they've put nude pics of themselves online
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Man Stalks Girl Online, Then Shows Up With Machete
Last year his 17-year-old daughter, whose identity we're protecting, met Patrick Daemon on MySpace. "He always kept saying he just wanted to be friends (with her)," says Lamb. "He just didn't get the picture of 'leave me alone.' He was pretty persistent."
As Daemon's interest in Lamb's daughter intensified, Lamb decided it was time to see what MySpace was all about. That day, Lamb's daughter showed her father Daemon's MySpace page with about 50 different pictures of her.
The family does not know where Daemon got them. The page also had captions like, "I like decapitating bodies," and "I'm going to cut her head off."
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