Dangers Of Sexting

Sexting is imprudent, untoward, and unfortunately - not all that uncommon. In a recent study of college freshmen, thirty-one percent of the participants reported sending a sexting image of themselves in high school to someone else using a cell phone (Martinez-Prather, 28).This action is a felony crime in Kansas, punishable by up to thirty-four years in jail, a substantial fine, and inclusion on the registered sexual offender list for life (Mobile Media Guard). While this may seem like excessive punishment for sexting, this punishment in not specifically for sexing. Since Kansas has no laws directly related to sexting, when minors are involved in sexting, the laws they have broken are those

Selina’s Atlantic article takes the story of a sexting scandal in Louisa, VA to make broader claims about sexting. During the discussion of this article we focused on a variety of reasons for sexting. Such reasons include sharing pictures with a trusted partner and believing that everybody is sexting, thus there is a lack of shame among peers. Additionally, sexting is perceived to be the social norm in high school, thus creating the notion that if you do not sext you are in the wrong and considered to be weird. With such motivations, kids and teenagers do not think about the potential repercussions. However, at least 20 states have passed legislation addressing sexting, but the problem is that these laws do not allow for nuance. As such, teens are labeled as sex

According to Justine Cassell and Meg Cramer’s article ‘High Tech or High Risk: Moral Panics about Girls Online’, moral panics about how girls use the web as a means of communication is a case that has existed for many years. Their reasoning attracts parallels between moral panics about girls’ use of social platforms in today’s world, and the moral panics that occurred in the past regarding the girls’ use of the telephone. Cassell and Cramer use these relations to explain that girls who use the internet are not completely as at risk as believed to be and that the alarming discourse concerning girls online has further to do with the parent’s insecurities about the influence of young girls and their loss of control over them than it has to do with exposure to online predators (Cassell & Cramer, 2008, p. 54). As a result of this notion of moral panic causing parents to restrict girls access to the internet for their safety, the authors argue that instead of guarding them away from harm, they are obscuring them away from chances and benefits presented with the access of the web

Today, technology plays a vital role in daily lives and provides easy access to social media. There is currently a major debate on whether parents with social media should post personal information including stories and pictures of their children online and whether or not those posts could lead to potential consequences for their child in the future. Two articles, Learn to Avoid the Traps of “Sharenting” by James P Steyer and Still Coming to Terms With Our Digital Selves by Erika Elmuts take on this argument, informing their intended audience the dangers of posting on social media, persuading them to be more cautious of what they post online. Comparing the two articles, Elmuts is more effective in accomplishing her goal in persuading her intended audience because she presents herself as a credible, knowledgeable source, provides compelling evidence, and appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos, leading her readers to

The problem of teen “sexting” has attained a great deal of media attention, just last month, on April 4, 2014, ABC News published a story about a sexting scandal in Virginia: Police Bust Virginia Sexting Ring Involving More Than 100 Teens Explicit Photos of Underage Girls to Instagram Accounts. As the title implies, authorities are directing an investigation about “sexting” that implicate more than a 100 teens and over 1,000 photos and some videos of nude girls posted to an account on Instagram. The investigation “involves both middle and high schoolers across six

Social media has become an outlet for teenagers to communicate constantly, monitor each other’s lives, and control what they want others to see. As social media is becoming more and more popular, more teenage moral panics are occurring. A moral panic is defined as the “fear of a new technology’s or cultural form’s negative impact outside of parental control.” (Jackson) Throughout these past few years, there have been an endless amount of teenage moral panics. Snapchat is an application that has caused a great amount of controversy. With the Snapchat application, you get to control how long the person you send a photo to can view that photo before it disappears. The problem with this is that you can take a snapshot of the photo before it disappears. Snapchat has become to be a teenage moral panic; more specifically Snapchat “sexting”, which is “the act of sending sexual messages and pictures to another person through phones or the internet.”(Klower) On Snapchat parents cannot control what their teenagers are sending and to who their teenagers are sending pictures and videos to. Therefore, teenagers feel a sense of privacy, and use the application to sext, which can lead to various negative behaviors.

Here is current situation teens young boys and girls are sexting back and forth. Our goals is to tell everyone about the dangers of sexting and what could happen if you sexts. Some people came to our school and talk about sexting. the people who can help you are the police or adults can help you, but remember don't ask some for one or don't send one. This is important to us because I don’t want teens or young girls/boys get in trouble for creating or sending the sext on. I am also doing this for the receiver they should know what to do if they get a sexts. There can be a lot of major charges to, like child pornography, distribution, and possession any of those are a crime and you can be sent to prison. if you create the photo which means child

Over the last few years, there has been a lot of discussion and debate over the topic of sexting. It has become a widespread phenomenon, the number of teenage girls and boys, men and women who participate are rapidly increasing, and with this too comes the rise of moral panic within societies. Individuals within the communities are becoming more and more fearful, afraid and shocked at this new form of youth culture hysteria. Although young people ‘expressing’ their sexuality has become much more open and free as of the last decade or so, the real uproar of panic is due to the risks they involving themselves in as well as the damage and harm they are inflicting on themselves, whether they know it or not.

Advances in technology have brought new and challenging consequences which we may not be able to fully understand or handle. Sexting, which involves the sending or receiving of sexually explicit messages or images is an important and sensitive topic which is now becoming a norm. We often focus on sexting in terms of how the law should handle the consequences that come from sexting while overlooking at the psychological effects which sexting can have on individuals. Since technology has not been around for very long, especially when compared to the existence of human life, it is hard to determine what the future of sexting even holds. This paper uses information from Hanna Rosin’s essay on “Why Kids Sext”

Great Post! I agree with you that cell phones or access to technology are given at a much younger age, thus they have become proficient with technology at a much faster rate compared to us during their age. Sexting can be seen as a form of intimacy or to strengthen a relationship, but one of the biggest components is trust with another person. The can consequence of sexting can be detrimental to one personal mental health. I've seen it first-hand the effects of this because just like you I had the same type of incident in my high school. As children are learning sex-ed in class there should be an added education curriculum or unit. They should be taught the dangers and the need to take precautions when it comes to technology because once a

Even with the dangerous developments in social media over the past several years, many parents have chosen to allow their children to use these sites despite age restrictions. There are three reasons to argue for age restrictions on social media sites: lack of supervision by parents, targeting of children by pedophiles, and the prevalence of children falsifying their age. The ability of pedophiles to conceivably target children with social media proves that this is an issue that parents need to examine so that they may better protect their children. The threat from pedophiles causes an enormous problem for millions of children on social media sites. Unfortunately, Western Daily Press states that “Pedophiles can get away with grooming young teenagers on social media sites.” My essay will argue that age restrictions need to be in place, and additional regulations should ensure that law enforcement agencies have the tools required to supervise underage children 's use of social media, including Facebook and Twitter. Quoting from Business Wire, “three out of four parents feel that social network sites are not protecting children.” According to Irish Independent, “four out of ten children falsify their age” when using social media. I will also argue that additional research on this topic can be used to raise the awareness of parents, and can also help to alert the children themselves to the danger. My essay will also examine questions, such as: How can social media sites protect

The sexting trend is gaining popularity with both teens and adults. Haag and Cummings (2010), define sexting as “the sending of sexually explicit messages and/ or photos, primarily between mobile phones” (p.1). However, sexually explicit messages and photos can be sent through social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and over various electronic devices, such as tablets. Although sexting between consenting adults is considered an acceptable activity, both adults and teenagers are using electronic devices and social media outlets to engage in inappropriate sexual activities (Matte, 2013). Since many teenagers are not legal adults, the legal issues of teen sexting must be considered. In addition, the

Electronic communication containing sexual material, known as sexting, has been a very controversial problem nowadays, especially when it involves young people. This topic meets our subject of study when deciding whether sexting should be criminalised. Even when going through Crown Prosecution Services and responding to the main factors about evidence and public interest, this matter is very debated and varies in each country.

Social media has introduced a new dimension to struggles and trivial struggles for private spaces and personal expression. Teenagers do not want parents to see their profile on the web or check them while chatting with friends. Parents are no longer worried only for what their children are wearing out of the house, but also for the clothes they are photographed in the room to publish their photos. First invisible interactions with adults suddenly leave traces, pushing parents to worry about conversations they consider inappropriate or when adolescents share "too much".

In today’s society technology is one of the biggest parts of teens throughout many places in the world. Technology can be used for a lot such as sharing about great trips, immense issues, or just everyday topics sent to friends to show them what is going on in your life. Technology has many great uses and for that reason it has a huge impact to today’s children and teens. Although technology has all these great uses, technology does come with negatives that can affect kids. One main topic talked about in today’s society is sexting between teens. Sexting is when people send others provocative pictures of each other through text, email, and social media which is said to be common between teens this day and age. Even though it is technically illegal for children under 18 to send these they seem to do so anyway. As a parent reading this will help teach you how to respond to your kids and teach them that sexting might not be the smartest idea.