Symantec uses sex + kids as marketing tool
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Way back in the far reaches of time, like when I was 9 or 10, sometimes alone, sometime with mates, I’d look in various library books for picture of (gasp) NEKKED WIMIN.
Even better, some of my friends had brothers who had DIRTY PITCHER BOOKS!
As far as I now, it didn’t do me any harm.
Now security company Symantec has taken up the PR scam popularised by the entertainment cartels, to wit:
Sex is a great marketing tool — especially when you mix kids into it!
The company has “announced the results of data collected from its OnlineFamily.Norton, a free service for kids and their parents to help safeguard them against some of the racier sides of the Internet,” says the Vancouver Sun.
Oh, really?
“Sex was No. 4 on the list overall, followed by porn but edged out by the top three search terms for kids, which were YouTube, Google and Facebook,” says the story, adding:
“The girls had marginally higher brow interests, with their No. 4 choice Taylor Swift compared to boys, who simply settled on sex. For girls, that term was No. 5 on the list.”
Don’t let the Symantec BS ‘research’ scare you, mums and dads: the kids are alright.
JN
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Vancouver Sun – Sex, porn frequent stops for young Internet surfers, December 17, 2009
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