Pew Report: Kids Who Pay for Their Own Phone Are 4 Times More Likely To Sext

The Pew Internet Project says that kids who buy their own phones are four times as likely to sext - that is send inappropriate images or texts to other kids. The sad thing is that some of these images make it into some of the 3,000 reports received by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children every week. While I still think sexting, like rainbow parties, is an overblown phenomenon, the report, found here and embedded after the jump, polled 2,553 Millennials (18-29) and 800 adolescents between 12 and 17. The results were quite interesting.