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March 14, 2019 08:36 pm PDT

You'll never guess what app teens use for sexting these days

What's the hottest teen chat app right now? Not Snapchat. Not Tiktok. And not Facebook Messenger (like, eww).

Nope. It's none of those.

It's Google Docs.

Great piece in The Atlantic by Taylor Lorenz today on how Google Docs became the go-to place for minors to talk about whatever they want to talk about, which includes illicit activities including drug use, and yes, sex.

Excerpt:

As more and more laptops find their way into middle and high schools, educators are using Google Docs to do collaborative exercises and help students follow along with the lesson plan. The students, however, are using it to organize running conversations behind teachers backs.

Teens told me they use Google Docs to chat just about any time they need to put their phone away but know their friends will be on computers. Sometimes theyll use the services live-chat function, which doesnt open by default, and which many teachers dont even know exists. Or theyll take advantage of the fact that Google allows users to highlight certain phrases or words, then comment on them via a pop-up box on the right side: Theyll clone a teachers shared Google document, then chat in the comments, so it appears to the casual viewer that theyre just making notes on the lesson plan.

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