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Like that would ever happen :) But phones require safe and appropriate use also. Visit the link to view tips for keeping your phone safe and appropriate.

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Some 95% of Americans own cellphones of some kind, according to Pew Research Center - among 18- to 29-year-olds, the number is a whopping 100%. But no matter your age, there are some basic ideas for keeping mobile phone use safe and constructive:
Share with care. Use the same good sense about what you post from your phone as from a computer. Once they're posted, text, photos, and video are tough to take back, can be copied and pasted elsewhere, and are up there pretty much forever. Think about the people in them (including you!). Reputations are at stake.

Phones are personal. Letting other people use your phone when you're not around is like letting them have the password to your social network profile. They can impersonate you, which gives them the power to mess with your reputation and relationships. Lock your phone when you're not using it, and use strong and unique passwords for all your apps.

Keep it kind. Because people socialize on cellphones as much as online, cyberbullying can be mobile too. Treat people on phones and the web the way you would in person, and the risk of being bullied goes down. Be aware, too, of people randomly taking pictures at parties, in locker rooms, etc. - you may not want to be tagged in their social-network photo albums!

Sexting: The vast majority of kids are smart and don't take, send, or post or even store nude photos of themselves or peers on their phones. People who do so can be charged with production, distribution, or possession of child pornography, a serious crime. They can also be subjected to jokes, bullying, blackmail, expulsion from school, loss of a job, etc. and the images can circulate forever. Just don't go there.

The value of presence.If you do a lot of texting, consider the impact that being "elsewhere" might be having on the people around you. Your presence during meals, at parties, in the car, etc. is not only polite, it's a sign of respect and appreciated.

Know what your apps know. Pay attention to any permissions apps request as you install them. If an app asks to access your location, contact list, calendar or messages or to post to your social networking services, consider if the app really needs that information to function. When in doubt, consider withholding permission or not using that app.

Down time is good. Constant texting and talking can affect sleep, concentration, school, and other things that deserve your thought and focus. You need your sleep, and real friends understand there are times you just need to turn off the phone.

Share location mindfully. A growing number of apps allow friends to pinpoint each other's physical location. If you use such a service, do so only with friends you know in person, and get to know the service's privacy features.

Have a conversation (not a lecture) with your kids about smartphone use. Consider drawing up a family cellphone contract and talk with your children about why each point is important (there's a sample contract at ConnectSafely.org/mobile). If you decide to use parental-control apps, discuss them with your children.
If you'd like to print these tips out, here's a PDF version. Please contact admin@connectsafely.org for permission to reprint or post.
Consider parental-control tools. There are actually two major types of parental controls. The first is family rules or guidelines that you establish with your children, and the second is technology tools provided by cellphone companies, smartphone makers and app developers. If you do use technology to monitor or limit your child's phone activities, in most cases it's a good idea to be up front with them and revisit it every now and then as they mature.
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Some 95% of Americans own cellphones of some kind, according to Pew Research Center - among 18- to 29-year-olds, the number is a whopping 100%. But no matter your age, there are some basic ideas for keeping mobile phone use safe and constructive: Share with care.

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Watch the video below to learn why.

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Eduardo learns that posting inappropriate pictures online is two kinds of stupid.

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Click below to read the article about recovering SnapChats

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Click below to read the article about recovering SnapChats

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I recently wrote about Snapchat, the popular photo sharing app that allows users to share photos that will self-destruct from between 1 and 10 seconds after they're viewed. As I said in that story, there are many reasons people use Android and Apple iOS app and that, despite worries about sexting, most kids are using the app in ways that parents would probably approve of.

But, it's also important for kids and adults to realize that there's no such thing content that absolutely disappears forever. Anything that can be digitized can be copied and stored and, as a forensics expert recently demonstrated, with the right tools, Snapchat photos, like PC files, can be undeleted.

Richard Hickman, from Utah-based Decipher Forensics, showed a KSL TV reporter how how his firm can restore deleted Snapchat photos from Android devices. He said he is working on a way to do the same with iOS phones and tablets. In a blog post, he described how he is able to transfer Snapchat data from an Android phone to a PC and recover deleted images.

Snapchat responded with its own blog post admitting "if you've ever tried to recover lost data after accidentally deleting a drive or maybe watched an episode of CSI, you might know that with the right forensic tools, it's sometimes possible to retrieve data after it has been deleted."
Lessons learned
I'm sure you've heard this before but it doesn't hurt to remind kids that, on the Internet, there there is no such thing as an eraser button. Even if you think something is gone, you never know for sure. The safest way to avoid problems is not to post or send anything that could get you into serious trouble if it were ever revealed.That's not to say you shouldn't do things that are a wacky or potentially even a bit embarrassing but you should avoid posting something that could get you into serious trouble or cause you severe mental distress were it later to surface.
When it matters: Calculating risks
It's all a matter of calculating risks and benefits. Unless you're sending your photos to mean or devious people, the odds of someone capturing the screen and sending around your pictures are probably quite low and - at least based on current technology - the process of undeleting is complicated and expensive and requires physical possession of the phone. It can't be done remotely. The company that discovered it will charge parents and law enforcement between $300 and $500 per image recovered). What that means to me is that it's OK to send wacky photos to your friends but not OK to send photos that could be illegal (such as sexually explicit or nude pictures of people under 18 - including self-portraits) or that could get you into serious trouble at school or with current or future friends or love interests. For more on the risk issues, see " Why I'm Not Worried That It's Possible to Undelete Snapchat Photos."
Advice for parents
The takeaway for parents is, once again, to talk with your kids about how they are using this and all other apps, but not to panic or prevent them from using the app. There are lots of fun and appropriate ways to use Snapchat and other photo-sharing apps and its "disappearing" feature, however imperfect, can add to its fun because kids know that in most cases the images won't stick around forever. Does that equate no risk? Of course not, but it also doesn't mean that there aren't good - and appropriate- ways to use the app.

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Snapchat photos can be undeleted as well as captured: When it matters

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I recently wrote about Snapchat, the popular photo sharing app that allows users to share photos that will self-destruct from between 1 and 10 seconds after they're viewed. As I said in that story, there are many reasons people use Android and Apple iOS app and that, despite worries about sexting, most kids are using the app in ways that parents would probably approve of.

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"Anything I do on SnapChat gets deleted, right? 

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"Anything I do on SnapChat gets deleted, right? 

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Wrong!! Your pictures can be un-deleted, sent by screenshot, and otherwise kept and shared by others.

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It's really not. It may seem fun and flirty at the time, but you are likely to wind up embarrassed when your bare self is shared school-wide.

And, it's ILLEGAL to share these pictures, even in the locker room.

Click below to learn more about the risk of sharing explicit pictures.

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Sharing explicit pictures or videos with an intimate partner is not always a harmful practice, but it can be devastating if those images get into the wrong hands - like those of Kevin Bollaert.

In the first criminal prosecution using a new California law targeting "revenge porn," San Diego-based Bollaert, 28, was convicted Monday on six counts of extortion and 21 counts of identity theft for operating two websites. One of Bollaert's now defunct sites posted nude and sexually explicit pictures of woman, often taken by a former intimate partner, with names, age and other information about the victims. Another reportedly enabled victims to pay to have their pictures removed from the first site.
Cowardly act
"Just because you're sitting behind a computer, committing what is essentially a cowardly and criminal act, you will not be shielded from the law or jail," California Attorney General Kamala Harris said. "The result of this conduct was to make people feel shame and embarrassment in the context of their family, their community, and their workplace," she added.

"Revenge porn" is a term for pictures posted or shared, often by a former intimate partner, to embarrass or shame the victim. It's sometimes referred to as "sextortion," especially if the perpetrator demands money, sex or for the victim to remain in an abusive relationship.
Sexting gone wrong
Some revenge porn involves images or video taken by a partner, or using concealed cameras with one or perhaps both parties unaware, but in many cases the images are self-produced: Sexting gone wrong.

Often the pictures were consensually taken by or shared with the partner during a time when the victim trusted the partner not to misuse those images. It's increasingly common for partners to share intimate photos - often via their smartphones - as a form of flirting or showing affection. There's been a fair amount of research on sexting both for adults and teens and most sexting incidents do not result in anything bad happening; some have even argued that it's a form of "safe sex," because there is no chance of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease.

But, by definition, revenge porn is not consensual. Even if the victim consented to the video or images being produced, that doesn't mean they're consenting to them being shared.

Cindy Southworth, from the National Network to End Domestic Violence said that the revenge porn term "belittles and doesn't really capture the true crux of the issue."

She said that the "problem is photos being shared without consent. It's not pornography, it's a crime."
Breaking of trust
Of course, most people who allow others to take or possess intimate pictures of them do so out of trust. You're in a relationship or trying to start one and you have every reason to believe that the other person will enjoy the images but not share them with others. And, in the vast majority of cases for both teens and adults, that's exactly what happens.

But, as many people have sadly discovered, relationships can fall apart. Although most people who break up are decent enough not to publicly violate the trust of their former partner, our world has its share of creeps and criminals, which is why we have revenge porn.

Distributing these images, said SSP Blue CEO Hemanshu Nigam, "can be destructive in all sorts of ways. It can affect your work environment, your kids and your community."

Nigam, who is a former federal prosecutor for computer crime, called revenge porn "a form of digital rape."
Added consequences for minors
In the case of minors, there is the added risk of legal consequences even if nothing malicious takes place because it's illegal to produce, possess or distribute sexually explicit images of minors - even if the minor is the one taking the picture.

Of course, child pornography laws were designed to protect kids, not prosecute them for bad judgment, but there have been cases of youth being placed on sex offender lists for consensual sexting. Fortunately those cases are getting increasingly rare as prosecutors and law enforcement realize that there are better ways to deal with teen sexting.

There is also the possibility of an image getting into the wrong hands by accident or as a result of a hack. There are cases, for example, when someone gets their hands on another person's phone, only to see and perhaps share images that were never meant for them. And - as Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and other celebrities learned - there is also the possibility of someone breaking into an account to access and then share photos and video.

As Nigam pointed out, "It's not just a celebrity problem. It can affect anyone who winds up in a bad relationship."

So, the only way to be 100 percent sure that a photo won't be circulated is to not take it or at least not share it. And if you do share it, make sure it's someone who you can trust and hope that person never violates your trust. If images of you are distributed against your will, save the evidence and contact an attorney or law enforcement to explore civil or criminal actions.

For links to tips on how to prevent and deal with revenge porn, visit connectsafely.org/revenge.

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'Revenge porn' is about betrayal, not pornography

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Sharing explicit pictures or videos with an intimate partner is not always a harmful practice, but it can be devastating if those images get into the wrong hands - like those of Kevin Bollaert.

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Just Can't Hide that RED DEVIL Pride... 

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Just Can't Hide that RED DEVIL Pride... 

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But make sure you are representing yourself appropriately on social media!