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So called “Sexting”–new phenomenon among American teenagers – is to send nude or semi-nude pictures of theirs or others by cell phones. Kids aged from 12, who aren't sexually active, are distribute unambiguous, insulting and yet pornographic pictures to their companions.
This trend had an enormous response; couple of teenagers lives changed after someone spread their explicit images. In 2009, eighteen-year old Phillip Alpert, was blamed for child pornography when he send this girlfriends nude picture (which she took for him) to his friends and family members after the quarrel they had. According to Florida law, he was immediately registered as a child sex offender.
MTV News special "Sexting in America: When Privates Go Public" had a premiere on Valentine's Day this year as an element of MTV's A Thin Line campaign to prevent the increase of digital violence.
The show looked carefully at current increase of “sexting” in pop culture, as well as celebrity world. In addition, it comprehensively looked how frequent teens sent or forwarded naked, sexual or unambiguous images and what are results of it. Show also looked at why “sexting” users click “forward” rather than “delete”.
Besides this, those teens - whose lives changed after they were draw into “sexting”- were invited. A new MTV and AP study discovered that three in 10 adolescents have spread or got exposed "sext" messages. Moreover, the study found out that more than 75 percent of inquired said that digital abuse is a severe problem for them.
Personally, I do think that teenagers who are involved in “sexting” just do not know how to have fun anymore and they are inventing those evil “game”, if I can call it like that. Mostly, I blame these new TV-shows that are extremely popular worldwide and teens watching it, want to have the same life and same fun. However, they never think about consequences of their actions.
When I read about “sexting” I recalled popular TV-show “Gossip Girl”, where everyone is stalking everybody and then spreading the gossips by “Gossip Girl” blog. Furthermore, this is made up story and show where main characters solve those problems and gossips about them.
Unfortunately, there is completely different scenario in real life, where someone’s stupid action can heart his/her close friend/relative or even somebody completely stranger.
If you are interested in MTV News special "Sexting in America: When Privates Go Public" follow the link to see the show. http://www.goodlookvideos.com/fulllength_tv_episodes/sexting-in-america-.html
5 Response to “Sexting”
I think it's shocking that this "sexting" has become so popular.... I believe the problem here is all the digital media available to teenage kids, mobiles were uses to be used for emergency calls and so on, now it has become entertainment. Which teenager actually needs to be able to take pictures on a mobile? Also I believe the teenagers just follow a trend to be "cool", they don't really know the connection between those pictures and their consequences.
Shocking and offensive! I really feel sorry for people who practise sexting for fun. They are truly playing with fire, since their nude picture can be posted anywhere online to harm their future. I remember seeing pictures of Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, and Vanessa Hudgens in this "sexting" style and I believe that these kind of pictures definitely trigger young teenagers to follow sexting.
Wow, this is actually one of those topics that is very present but rarely discussed. I loved your post among this problem and I completely agree with you. Teenagers obviously just came to realize they have something that might be interesting to others so they tend to share it. It is a very serious problem and I believe further research on this topic is definitely needed.
This is shocking indeed. And I agree thet it is caused mainly by total ignorance of teenagers when it comes to consequences. However I dont thing it is problem of cell phones only. Very similar ibages can be seen posted on facebook, which I find even more disturbing. I have several teenage friends on facebook and some of the images they are willing to make public dont stop shocking me.
I also find this topic of sexting very disturbing. In Slovakia,before Facebook, there was BOOOM, it was something similar, people could have their own profiles,with information and pictures. However, mostly teenagers had these and they were posting sexy or even nude pictures of themselves, made by their own phone or camera through mirror mainly. Some of these children could be 11 years old, and that is what i find shocking and outrageous. I could not imagine doing this when i their age, and im glad we didnt have facebook or booom when i was younger because it has bad influence on these children. These sites and social networks are made for voyeurism but it is not healthy for these kids to be taught to take pictures of their naked selves just because their crush or whoever might see them. When i will have a child i will be highly protective over his/her exposition to these sites and their content as i would certainly not like the fact that an image of my 11 old daughter in her underwear is there on the internet for the whole world to see.
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