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Teenagers' anti-sexting app launched By Angela Harrison Social affairs correspondent, BBC News
24 October 2013
A charity has launched a mobile phone application to help teenagers refuse requests for explicit images of themselves.
The free app from Childline offers users a choice of what the charity says are "witty responses" to send instead.
The charity states that "sexting" is a typical practice that involves sending intimate images or videos to a mobile phone or via the internet.
A smartphone is owned by about six out of ten kids between the ages of 12 and 15 years old.
A recent NSPCC/ChildLine poll found that six out of ten teens admitted to being asked to submit sexual images.
The survey - which involved 450 people - was self-selecting The charity claimed it was based on results from other studies.
Zipit is a brand new application, provides tips on how to use safe online messaging and what young people should do if threatened or if a photo is published.
'Almost suicidal'
One 17-year-old boy told Childline sexting was "pretty normal" among his friends.
"My friends and me talk openly about our experiences in our relationships, as well as the kind of messages we've shared with one another." It seems that everyone's doing it."
He said that he occasionally got negative reactions to things he sent - but it didn't bother him enough to stop.
Sexting
"Someone saw an online video message that I sent to a former lover and took a screen-shot and put it on the internet. They called me a pervert, and many people I knew saw it.
"I was devastated and honestly, almost suicidal."
Peter Liver, from ChildLine Peter Liver, of ChildLine, said: "We hope Zipit will provide young people with the tools to defuse the pressure to send images, share or even collect these images."
The charity has also teamed with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), to help young people remove explicit images from the internet.
Sexting can be a danger from the inside
16 May 2012
Internet Watch Foundation
Zipit
Homepage: https://sexting.ink/
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