So you take a cheeky picture of yoursself in your new lingerie for your boyfriend, or even cheekier, naked, and send it to him, but keep it in your album afterwards and forget about it. Or your partner sends some of themselves in a naughty pose and you put it at the back of your mind and your camera roll after a night of phone sex. Although it may do wonders for your sex life, what happens when it gets into the wrong hands?
Relationships on Female First
I know a girl who took a picture of herself in every dress she owned so that before a night out she could remind herself of how she looked in each one to make an informed decision.
Research has found that half of Brits aged between 18-35 have pictures on their phone that they would not want others to see and a third put a password on their phones to stop unwanted people being able to see their albums.
Appy Snap found that a huge 52% of the people taking part had shots that they wanted to keep a secret from their friends and family. The pictures that are off limits are mostly ones of themselves in compromising positions or naked, closely followed by 48% who have pictures of their partners on their phones that are for their eyes only!
Like my friend, 39% have vain 'selfies', which are usually snaps of them in a new outfit, or with a new hairdo.
Less offensive are the soppy romantic ones that we all take of our partners, like the ones where they are sleeping or kissing you.
Finally those that we all dread on Facebook are the embarrassing drunken photos, where we are at the point in the night where we just don’t care!
Liverpool (16%), Newcastle (13%) and Bristol (11%) were the worst offenders for rude snaps of themselves and of their partners.
9% had unfortunately sent a rude picture of themselves or their partner to the wrong person! So something that was meant only for your boyfirend or girlfriend now has the potential be leaked onto Facebook, depending on how generous the wrongful recipient is or how much money you are willing to offer in return!
Paul Smith, co-founder of Appysnap, said the following about the poll:
“Appysnap is a photo-orientated app, so we’re always interested to hear more about how people use the photography aspect of their handsets. To see that as many as half of Britons have photos on their phone they wouldn’t want seen by others is a bit of a shock, but it’s easy to see why when looking at the number of people that said these photos were either rude images of themselves or their partners and love interests.
“Anyone with raunchy images in their gallery should perhaps check their smartphone settings, to ensure they’ve got a password or PIN on there. Worst case scenario, you could accidentally end up posting these images on social media and that would be a disaster!”