McAfee's Love Relationships and Technology survey unveils troubling results

With Valentine's Day fast approaching and the temptation to use the smartphone to share intimate photos or messages with the love of your life, there's something internet experts want you to remember. When you send a photo, chances are it's gonna live forever. Digital is repeatable, digital is copied and pasted, and digital again is forever. A survey by McAfee found that 96% of us are indeed using our smartphones for photos, and that over half send or receive intimate photos or messages on them. So, a word of advice: It might be a good idea to archive them, maybe encrypt them on, say, a desktop or laptop, or best-case scenario, just delete them. And ask the recipient to do the same. Or better yet, just don't do it. And according to McAfee's Robert Siciliano, don't trust programs that promise to delete them for you. Once you share any digital media with anybody else, you completely lose control over it. Losing devices is another way photos and messages are lost because 27% of us still don't secure devices with PINs or passwords. Chris Clackum, NBC News.