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