There
are many dangers to new media users that can cause depression, unsafe
situations and even suicide. One of these dangers is sexting. Sexting is
sending provocative pictures to another person through text messages or one of
the most popular ways, Snapchat. With today’s technology and the newest apps
coming out for smartphones, sexting has become incredibly easy, but what
teenagers and even children don’t understand is that sexting can cause a very
dangerous situation for them. According to Today.com, a girl named Jessica
Logan committed suicide because of an incident of sending nude pictures to her
boyfriend over the time. When they broke up, he ended up sending them to different
high school girls that they went to school with. The girls that he sent these
pictures to made Jessica’s life literally a living hell by calling her a slut
and harassing her. She literally felt like she was being tortured. While all of
this was happening in school, the officials did absolutely nothing to help her
or to inform her mother of what was going on during school hours to her
daughter. There was one day when Jessica felt like she couldn’t handle this
anymore and she hung herself in her bedroom, where her mother found her hanging
in her closet and her cell phone in the middle of the floor. I think that the
issue of sexting will never disappear or go away, but there are ways to help
prevent this and to protect your children from this. When you are a parent and
your child is a teenager there are ways to stay aware of the new ways that high
school students communicate with each other and are able to send different
forms of media to each other. Just by looking up different articles and
summaries of what is going on within the world and by keeping your children
aware of the dangers that come along with sexting can help make them safer and
to help make the world a safer place regarding sexting.
Celizic,
Mike. “Her Teen Committed Suicide over ‘Sexting’.” TODAY.com. NBC News, 6 Nov. 2013. Web. 21 Apr. 2014.
Sexting is a very important matter and definitely is out of control in today’s day and age with technology and other updates I completely I agree. But I feel you didn’t stress the matter enough to teenagers. Juvenile sexting is way to common in this era, and so common that minors can face criminal charges for doing it. Great example using the girl who committed suicide because that’s one of the main tragic circumstances and results. Snapchat wasn’t made for only nudity but is completely a way nude pictures can be sent without people keeping them, for the time being. But the rates and statistics about the amount of suicide’s due to girls sending nude pictures haven’t went up drastically, another tool was just created for people to think they can get away with it. Sending semi-nude or nude photos is more common among teens girls. 22% of teen girls report sending images of this nature, while only 18% of same-age boys have. It’s most common within the high-school and college years of peoples lives, and that’s when its most dangerous. Your example gave a understanding of what sexting is and it’s consequences sometimes, but didn’t stress the seriousness of the dangerous new media and that it’s a crime.
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