Looking good is not a crime but a new survey has shown an alarming number of people secretly take photos of attractive strangers on public transport.
A new survey carried out by Nokia, a mobile making company, revealed that more than eight percent Britons confessed they have secretly taken a photo of an attractive stranger on public transport, in a park, a coffee shop and even in the doctor's surgery. The survey also revealed various activities of Britons with their camera smartphones.
The survey conducted on 2,076 Britons also found that nearly seven million U.K. adults admitted to taking intimate pictures of themselves and storing it on their phones, but most of them also fear that one day these pictures might end up on Facebook, renowned social networking site.
The increased demand of high-end smartphones that come with extra-ordinary picture quality has turned people more adventurous. While the use of mobile cameras extend to taking pictures of strangers on streets, the survey also shows that the UK couples move on quickly after breaking up. More than 90 percent of UK couples delete all photographs of their exes from their phones following a break up, says the study, reported by UK's The Independent.
"Our research has given us a real insight into the ever-changing quirky habits of the British public," Thomas Messett, head of digital marketing for Europe at Nokia, said in a statement. "It would appear that wiping your mobile phone pictures is a typical part of the digital break-up and gone are the days when people would burn photos of their exes."
The survey also revealed that one-fourth of the crowd liked to keep their phones away from their partner's reach.
Nearly 40 percent of the Britons take pictures on their cell phones to share their whereabouts on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the newspaper reported.
