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INSIDE MOBILE: Sexting: Why Technology Solves Some Problems, Creates Others

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The major concern over sexting amongst children has recently been all over the news. Sexting is everywhere childish kids under 18 take explicit or inappropriate photos of themselves with their camera phone and then send them to their friends using Multimedia Messaging Services, an advanced multimedia version of Small Message Benefit. Here, Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy discusses why this sexting problem has developed and what can be done to solve it.
– Small Message Benefit (SMS) message volumes continue to grow significantly in the United States each year. movable subscribers sent and received more than 900 billion SMS messages in 2008. This is an increase of 132 percent over the 2007 SMS volumes. SMS penetration also increased from 45 percent to …