Cell Phone Cameras have made Teens Insensitive?

Parents have to buy cell phones for kids these days. The digital lifestyle of the world has come up with a mess for parents. We should know what kind of phone we have bought for kids and what sort of features are suitable for kids. Today cell phone cameras is the demand of every mobile user including young teens. Nowadays, it is impossible to buy a mobile device without cameras. The cell phone camera is captivating and has made the teens insensitive to think about physical sensations. That’s why mobile cameras and teen’s privacy are impossible to go together.

In 2014 people have taken 800 billion photos, and more than 200,000 uploaded to Facebook in a single minute. Young teens are desperate to capture photos and videos, but they forget about surroundings scenes because of their urge to record them. Most of the teens forget at which place they have taken because most of these photos are selfies.

Teens got busy switching the lens on her face, and her mind doesn’t remember the precious memories of the surroundings. The Selfies camera of the phone is a lethal memory killer of teens.  It distracts them from the exposure of an event. Teens are more likely to get controlled by cell phone cameras.

She said in her research that cell phone cameras are making you lose your memory, not retain, the beautiful moments of your life.  She further conducted an experiment in which she took 15 students on the museum tour. She told them to capture 15 photos of things they like the most and view 15objects in a museum with the naked eye.

She had given 30 seconds to view the objects which students were not allowed to capture photos. But when capturing photos, she divided the time into two parts. One part was consisting of 20 seconds to view the object and 10 seconds to capture the photo.

Henkel asked question from students and have taken a memory test to know which work of art they have in their mind. Henkel came out with unbelievable results that students remembered less things they have captured on their phone cameras.

Modern mobile phones are coming up with the latest cameras that can record and include the GPS coordinates automatically in an image. It means when teens capture selfies or images take the GPS coordinates at the same time. Therefore, teens got trace out when they share photos, and people can view Exif data.

People can get access to Exif data of teen’s photos. Anyone can put it on the mapping program and know about the pinpoint GPS location of a cellphone. It means that teens share their privacy after capturing and sharing photos on Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. So we can say that mobile cameras and privacy online of teens cannot go together.

Sharing everything throw the eyes of mobile cameras could be risky for teens at any point in time. Following are the activities of teens

Mobile cameras are the root cause of leaked nude videos and photos of teens. Teenagers are filming their intimate activities with their partners and then save them on their phone gallery. Their thousands of cases happened every day worldwide where teens become the victim of their leaked nude videos with their partners. Self-obscenity is an activity in which teens record short videos by placing a cellphone camera at some angle to film the romance with their lovers. The loss or theft of phones of teens becomes the reason for embarrassment. However, teens are also sharing intimate scenes at will.

Teens in an online relationship usually feel pressure by the partner and get naked in front of cell phone cameras, and later on, her lover starts blackmailing teens. Most teens meet their online lovers in person and become the victim of self-obscenity.

Cell phone’s front and back cameras enable teens to use social media live streaming apps. Teens are using applications like TikTok, BiGo Live, and many more. They record live videos using these live broadcast applications that access the phone camera in real-time and record videos. Teens share stripping videos and share them on social streaming apps to get more views, likes, and endorsements. Teens are using live video streaming apps for lucrative reasons. They record nudes, and get an audience and make money.

Apart from using video streaming apps, teens use selfie cameras to capture photos and videos in a sexually suggestive and share them on social media platforms. Teens share their private photos and videos on Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and many other social networks. Online predators are everywhere on social messaging apps and websites, and they follow teens by watching their names, profiles, photos, and images. They send random messages to teens to trap them online and groom them slow and steadily.

• 1 out of 3 three teens become the victim of cyber bullies
• 12% of teens become the victim of stalkers on social media
• 33% of teens share sext with stranger’s online using a phone camera
• 1 out 12 teens become agree to meet sex offenders after meeting someone on social networks

There are the following things that parents should keep in mind before handing over the cellphone to their kids to protect teen’s privacy and from online predators to the fullest.

• Parents should know about mobile device camera features
• Parents should know how to disable the GPS location if it is enabled before providing it to teens.
• If you don’t disable the phone GPS then the pictures taken by teens would have Exif data
• Use can use mobile tracker to track and monitor teen’s Geo-location
• Mobile tracking app can track if teens have created an Exif file of capture photo using front and back camera
• Discuss with your teens that how they are sharing their GPS location by capturing and sharing photos and videos
• Talk with your teens and guide them not to share photos and videos on social media
• Talk to your teens that how live video streaming apps are dangerous for their privacy
• Teach your teens how to custom their social media profiles full of captured images
• Make your teens understood how technology in terms of mobile cameras put you in trouble

Parents can install cellphone tracker on cell phones connected to the internet. It monitors every activity teens are doing via cellphone. Parents can control cellphone cameras, microphones and get live location at any stage remotely. It protects your online privacy and protects them from online predators by tracking cell phone activities and surroundings using its following powerful and advanced features.

Suppose your teens used to capture selfies and then share them with strangers on social media. You can use a screen recorder on the target phone that records surroundings back and forth using front and back camera and share to the web control panel. You can access the phone tracker app dashboard and watch recorded videos to know what teens are up to at the moment.

It is the most advanced feature of the cell phone tracking app that connects the dashboard with the cell phone cameras to streams live videos of the teen’s phone surroundings. Parents can use the online portal and watch the live activities of the teens.

Parents can capture screenshots of phone screens back to back by scheduling screenshots. It enables parents to know what teens are doing on social media, message apps, phone calls, and what sort of data sharing online.

Suppose you are teens capturing photos via phone camera, and you know they are sharing their location with someone online. You can track the Live GPS location of your child when she is going to meet an online friend in person. Parents need to track location history, route maps and pinpoint the location of their kids.

Cell phone cameras could become vulnerable for teens online and real–life safety. You can protect and prevent teens from sharing their privacy online. Parents can monitor and track every activity of teens on cellphone secretly and remotely. Keep using cell phone tracker software to protect teens to the fullest.