Microsoft and Sexting: A Disconnect?

You may have heard about Microsoft’s new cell phone, the Kin, aimed at 15-30 year olds and emphasizing Facebook time and texting. Well it seems that the folks at Common Sense Media got a look at the Kin web site, saw a video where a young man lifts up his shirt, takes a picture of his bare chest and sends it off to a young woman and took Microsoft to task for it for promoting sexting. After receiving many complaints about the video, Microsoft pulled the ad, but it is interesting that Microsoft didn’t think there was an issue in the first place. For more on what happened and the seeming disconnect between the “social generation” and the rest of society take a look at the article on the Common Sense site called Microsoft Gets Common Sense.