Cell phone porn and Pakistani youth

[Babar]

A recent post on Pakistaniat talks about the cell phone porn and its
impact on the Pakistani youth.
http://pakistaniat.com/2008/03/01/cell-phone-is-ringing-is-there-anyone-listening/

In general adults are responsible for their own actions but children
must be protected against manipulation. It is sad that the most
vulnerable part of our society is being exploited this way. Of course
this is a social problem but are there any parental control
technologies which can be used to mitigate this problem?

[Rizwan Sarwar]

It is a social problem, the contents are not being provided by any service provider, and looking at adding parental control to cell phones is fighting the symptoms, not the problem. In my personal opinion, things like this flourish where there are social gaps between different age groups. Kids are keen to know about anything, regardless of the fact how it will impact them. It is great to know that people are starting to talk about these things, because we will never get anywhere by just ignoring or showing anger or rage in response.

The right way of handling this is to raise awareness, talk to kids, you will be surprised to find how intelligent they are as compared to average kid 10 years ago. I believe giving logic and reason works better than showing the hand. Media in Pakistan is so advanced yet at the same time they so backward on certain issues that no one wants to talk about it. It is responsibility of all of us to promote awareness what and why something is good or bad.

/riZ

[Tee Emm]

The silver lining in this case is a fast closing generation gap between the younger users of technologies and older generation 'big brothers' whose proverbial 'shair ki nazar' (the vigil of a lion) was useless as the youngsters exploited the computers, Internet and cell phones right under their noses. Parents would buy their children computers and connections in the name of 'IT' and 'computer technology' only for these things to be put to extensive abuse all under their unsuspecting sincere efforts.

This has changed a lot in the past few years.

The entertainment (and thus the potentially abusive) aspect of the computers and newer cell phones have come to bright sunlight and people of all ages now fully understand the positive and negative potentials of these items. Irrespective of the fact whether they can do anything about it or not, parents in Pakistan are today are more likely to become worried if their child would appear to study too long on a computer late in the night.

The cell phones arrived later than the computers in the mass market in Pakistan but their ability to be abused also become common knowledge quickly. However, due to the physical dimensions, the cell phone abuse remains far more camouflaged than that of a desktop computer. The crazy amount of storage now offered by slide-in memory cards for the cell phones is converting the cell phones into, as the post at Pakistaniat puts it, micro personal cinemas of sorts. The highest application of this sort of entertainment is visible in the case of people doing static, boring jobs with tons of time to kill at their disposal (such as security guards, clerks in the government departments and private car drivers etc). Cell phones with more memory and higher functionalities are more likely to be used as entertainment devices rather than communication devices when the owners cant spend on making calls and downloading paid contents.

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[Babar]

Here are a few additional thoughts and notes -- this is a wide-open
field for a startup to capture.
http://telecompk.net/2008/03/31/parental-controls-technologies-for-mobile-phones/

Babar

On Mar 6, 12:48 pm, "Tee Emm" <tariq.must...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The silver lining in this case is a fast closing generation gap between the
> younger users of technologies and older generation 'big brothers' whose

> proverbial *'shair ki nazar' *(the vigil of a lion) was useless as the

> > On 06/03/2008, Babar <babar.bha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > A recent post on Pakistaniat talks about the cell phone porn and its
> > > impact on the Pakistani youth.
>

> > >http://pakistaniat.com/2008/03/01/cell-phone-is-ringing-is-there-anyo...