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Monday, December 05, 2011

Survey: Chances Are, Your Teen Isn't Sexting

Sexting -- the phenomenon of teens using phones or computers to send each other sexual photographs -- is not as widespread as once thought, a new study suggests.

University of New Hampshire researchers conducted a telephone survey to ask 1,560 Internet users between the ages of 10 and 17 whether they'd made, sent or received sexual photographs in the past year.

Only about 1 percent of kids were sexting sexually explicit photographs.

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