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Does Microsoft promote sexting with KIN video?
By Rhonda Callow
Some people are wondering if a video advertisement for Microsoft’s new KIN phones promotes sexting. What do you think?
A ConsumerReports.org blog post suggests that Microsoft might be encouraging sexting in one of their advertisements for the new KIN phones. The posts says “The video, on a promotional site for the new phones, includes a downright creepy sequence in which a young man is shown putting a Kin under his shirt and apparently snapping a picture of one of his naked breasts. The breast is then shown on the phone’s screen, just before the guy apparently sends it to someone. Next we see the face of a young woman, seemingly the recipient, with an amused expression on her face.”
You can see the controversial video at the end of this post. The questionable part can be seen about 30 seconds in.
If you don’t know what sexting is, check out the post I did a while ago called Sexting: How bad is it? where I explain what sexting is and talk about the possible dangers associated with sexting.
Go ahead and take a look at the video below. Do you think Microsoft is out of line and ConsumerReport.org is right in calling the video “downright creepy” or do you think people just look for things to complain about and Microsoft is in no way encouraging sexting?
http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2010/04/does-microsoft-promote-sexting-with-kin-video.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Sync-TheTechAndGadgetsBlog+%28sync%3A+the+tech+and+gadg ets+blog%29
Does Microsoft promote sexting with KIN video?
By Rhonda Callow
Some people are wondering if a video advertisement for Microsoft’s new KIN phones promotes sexting. What do you think?
A ConsumerReports.org blog post suggests that Microsoft might be encouraging sexting in one of their advertisements for the new KIN phones. The posts says “The video, on a promotional site for the new phones, includes a downright creepy sequence in which a young man is shown putting a Kin under his shirt and apparently snapping a picture of one of his naked breasts. The breast is then shown on the phone’s screen, just before the guy apparently sends it to someone. Next we see the face of a young woman, seemingly the recipient, with an amused expression on her face.”
You can see the controversial video at the end of this post. The questionable part can be seen about 30 seconds in.
If you don’t know what sexting is, check out the post I did a while ago called Sexting: How bad is it? where I explain what sexting is and talk about the possible dangers associated with sexting.
Go ahead and take a look at the video below. Do you think Microsoft is out of line and ConsumerReport.org is right in calling the video “downright creepy” or do you think people just look for things to complain about and Microsoft is in no way encouraging sexting?
http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2010/04/does-microsoft-promote-sexting-with-kin-video.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Sync-TheTechAndGadgetsBlog+%28sync%3A+the+tech+and+gadg ets+blog%29