This fall Apple started to develop a technology that could help prevent sexting . This technology would allow parents to block incoming or outgoing texts containing certain words. Considering the recent incidents of sexting in the news, this would allow parents to put up one more line of defense against sexting.
This starts out as an ok idea and rapidly becomes useless. The success of a program like this hinges on children being unable to master the fine art of euphemism. By the time apple finishes with work like this, students will be unable to send the message, "put the sausage in the jugs". Word based control never works well.
Posted by: Galen | January 05, 2011 at 12:12 PM