Sexting In Teens

When providing a service, people get paid for the service, so why are college athletes not paid for performing a service with their athletic abilities? Almost anyone who is involved with sports, whether it be watching them or playing them, has an opinion on whether or not college athletes should be paid. My opinion on this controversy is that college athletes should be paid. College sports make billions of dollars, so there is definitely room for athletes to payed in some way. There are three main reasons as to why I believe college athletes should be paid. One is the athletes do not have enough time to hold a steady job because they are constantly practicing or playing the sport they are involved in. If they can work there are rules as to what they can make. The second reason is the colleges the athletes play for and the NCAA both make money off all of the athletes’ names and the coaches of the athletes are paid very well. The last reason is the scholarships of some athletes can be taken away if they do not meet the performance standards of the college they play for.

As mentioned in the textbook, Adolescence, in recent times text messaging has become the ultimate way that adolescents use to connect with their friends, defeating face-to-face, e-mail, instant messaging, and voice calling (Santrock, 425). With this new trend has come a new frenzy: teen “sexting”. The term “sexting” is use to describe a wide variety of activities: it can be used for producing and sending images of oneself, receiving images directly from the producer, or forwarding received images to other people. Although, the majority of attention has been directed toward “sexting” via cell phone, the term can apply to any digital media, such as e‐mail, instant messaging, and social networking sites. However, the term is most commonly associated with minors, and girls are more likely to the victims. For this reason, teen “sexting” is an increasing concern among parents, educators, and law enforcement officials.

One specific phenomenon that has emerged with the increase of smart phones and personal technology is the issue of sexting; the sharing or exchange of sexual messages or images (thesocietypages). As the deviant act of youth sexting is more common than parents might realize or want to admit (CNN), Kelly Wallace investigates how youth’s sexual behavior has become normalized through the act of sexting. The article, “Is Your Teen Using Apps to Keep Secrets?” explores how much of today’s youth share sexually explicit messages through the tech savvy world.

People have cell phones everywhere, especially teenagers. Teenagers are glued to their cell phones; they need cell phones almost everywhere they go. Today teens are depending on their phones for everything. The number of cell phones users has increased and as of 2010, there were more than 303 million subscribers in the U.S., according to the cellular companies (Hanna). As a result of teenagers over using cell phones, teens are being impacted emotionally, socially, and physically.

In addition, tecnology can have bad influence on texting, because some people be texting innapropiet thing to boys or girls.Younger childrens should'nt have a phone, because once they get they will just go out of hand with it.Friends can get you in a lot of trouble while texting or hanging out with them.If you have a friend you should always see

Writer Jennifer Ludden confirms, “75 percent of teens between the ages of 12 and 17 now have cell phones.” What Ludden is trying to say is that back then many people did not had cell phones and now mostly everybody has one. Even early teens at 12 now have their own phone and they start over texting at that age. Phone companies want to show the people that having a phone could be a great experience by adding new features to it but it only makes teens obsessed with them more. As Ludden adds, “Many parents surveyed say they've taken away their child’s cell phones as punishment.” She is stating that the cell phones are so attached to teens now getting them taken away by parents is a form of punishment

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.

Over the years so much has changed in terms of peoples views on young peoples sexuality and on sexting and the rules and consequences associated with sexting. If you jump forward a generation or two to the contemporary world, you will realise the social and sexual landscape has changed dramatically. Sex is regulated less and is in some ways less risky for many young Australians. More young people are having sex and more are having sex at young ages. Social mores have changed. The feminist and gay rights social movements have mobilised for legal and social change. For heterosexual young people, effective contraception is widely available and pregnancy terminations are legal and available through the public health care system. Homosexual sex

According to research, approximately “39% of teens between the ages of 13-19 years old have sent at least one sext message and 48% have received one sext message. Of the teens who sext, 63% said the photos were sent to a boyfriend/girlfriend, 29% said they sent them to somebody they were casually dating, 19% sent these photos to someone they didn’t know well and only met through a chatting app and 24% sent them to someone they only knew online. As for the reasons teens sext, 49% said it was harmless fun, 39% said they did it to receive photos back, 16% thought it was a normal thing to do, 16% said they did it because everybody else was doing it and 13% said they were pressured into sexting.”

In today's world, you see that teens have probably been around smartphones since they were born. They depend on them and are more attached to phones than actual people. We see in everyday life that teens are glued to their smartphone screens. There are many effects that smartphones are causing on teens now. Jean M. Twenge persuades people to see that smartphones are affecting people negatively by traumatizing young teens.

I believe the discussion surrounding sexting and youth presented my best work within the discussion component of this course. This topic in itself really interested me because I’ve seen the negative impacts that sexting can have on young individuals when I myself was in high school. I began the week only really viewing sexting as a fully negative thing to do when individuals are young, but by the end of the week I grew to have a more complex opinion and I believe that came from properly participating in the discussion and truly taking an interest in the topic.

According to The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families, a clinical report, Sexting is defined as sending, receiving or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs or images via cell phone, computer or other digital devices. A national survey by the National Campaign to Support Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGirl.com found a surprising 20 percent of teens from ages 14-18 have participated in sexting. Though both genders seem to be sending sexually explicit or vulgar messages, 71% of teenage girls are more probable to send inappropriate photos of themselves, particularly to their boyfriends compared to teenage boys who only do it 67% of the time. However, this is not the worst part. 36% of teenage girls

Cell phones can lead to the dangerous world of sexting. Sexting is a very serious thing and is illegal and mainly happens on social media when you are in a relationship with another male or female. Sexting is actually “sending of sexually explicit digital images,videos,text messages or emails usually by cell phone.” According to researcher Amanda Lenhart “Teens who are sexting and sending sexually suggestive nude, or nearly nude cell phone images face social and legal consequences.” (Gerdes 130)

Mobile phones are an entertainment source for many. As well as holding music files, as some phones today are able to do, it will work with a home entertainment system to find programmes of similar interest to files already on the phone and download them as a podcast. The Mobile Life Youth Report, one of the biggest ever social studies to examine how mobile phones have changed the way young people live, was published on 19 September 2008 by the London School of Economics and Political Science. The report discusses how the intimate relationship between user and phone is most pronounced among teenagers, who regard their mobiles as an expression of their identity. "Texting is often used for apologies, to excuse lateness or to communicate other things that make us uncomfortable," the report says. "It offers intimacy of a particularly controlled form, useful for its discretion ... but valued by those who find it difficult to express their emotions more discursively." (19 September, 2008). This is partly because mobiles, unlike landlines, are seen as being beyond the control of parents. But the researchers suggest that another reason may be that mobiles, especially text messaging, were seen as

Ever since the invention of texting in early 1980s, our society has become more keen to the dangers of texting. Texting has become a major phenomenon embraced by billions of people around the world every day. Garter, the texting industry analysts predicted that in 2010 about 2.4 trillion text messages would be sent out (Crystal, 4). With this being said, texting is so convenient that it can be done anytime and anywhere, this is where we see a problem emerging. Since texting is instant, people