So... why does “Miss Teen USA” have a web cam, anyway?
Many teens these days do. They use them to video chat (Skype) back and forth. Twenty years ago they were on the phone constantly. In today’s day and age it’s vidchat and texting -even if they are sitting back to back in the same room. I can certainly attest to that last one as a personal observation.
Webcams are standard equipment on laptops.
Skype. My daughter and her circle of friends use it constantly for chats. However ALL of them use a piece of tape to cover the Camera when they aren't using it.
This is not something I made her do. She knew about the issue long ago and they all (her friends as well) are very obsessive about covering that camera when they don't Skype.
I noticed all of them had tape on their computers and asked why and they were very serious about the issue.
Webcams are built into many (most?) modern laptops.