Sexting
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'Sexting' Teens Can Go Too Far
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WorldNews/sexting-teens/story?id=6456834#.T1lgtbyF_ug
By GIGI STONE
March 13, 2009
What happened to the time when if you likeda boy at school you'd pass him a note?
These days the disturbing new trend in teenage flirting is sending nude or semi-nude photos from cell phone to cell phone: instead of "texting," they call itcalled "sexting."
While the X-rated offerings are usually intended just for a boyfriend or girlfriend, the photos often wind up being shared.
While 17-year-old Matthew Younger of Maryland says he hasnever done anything like this himself, he has seen it happen among his peers.
"If a boy meets a girl or has a girlfriend on summer break he comes back and shows all his boys the [naked] pictures he'sbeen sent. No one gives it that much thought really," says Younger.
The dangerous combination of teenagers behaving provocatively and impulsively is not new, but the accessibility to the technologyis. With cell phone cameras, they have been handed a tool so easy to use for some it's impossible to pass up.
And in the transparent culture built around social networking sites, it all spreads likewildfire.
"Somebody might send it to somebody else's phone and that person has Facebook on the their phone and they automatically upload it to their Facebook or MySpace page," explains SomaliaYaborow, 16, of Alexandria, Va.
ABCNEWS.com
What teens don't realize is just how serious the consequences can be.
News reports are increasingly documenting legal repercussions after indecent photoappear online. And attorneys say there are many unanswered questions about whether young people who send their own photos could face prosecution for obscenity or child pornography.
This year inWisconsin, a 17-year-old was charged with possessing child pornography after he posted naked pictures of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend online.
In Alabama, authorities arrested four middle-school students...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WorldNews/sexting-teens/story?id=6456834#.T1lgtbyF_ug
By GIGI STONE
March 13, 2009
What happened to the time when if you likeda boy at school you'd pass him a note?
These days the disturbing new trend in teenage flirting is sending nude or semi-nude photos from cell phone to cell phone: instead of "texting," they call itcalled "sexting."
While the X-rated offerings are usually intended just for a boyfriend or girlfriend, the photos often wind up being shared.
While 17-year-old Matthew Younger of Maryland says he hasnever done anything like this himself, he has seen it happen among his peers.
"If a boy meets a girl or has a girlfriend on summer break he comes back and shows all his boys the [naked] pictures he'sbeen sent. No one gives it that much thought really," says Younger.
The dangerous combination of teenagers behaving provocatively and impulsively is not new, but the accessibility to the technologyis. With cell phone cameras, they have been handed a tool so easy to use for some it's impossible to pass up.
And in the transparent culture built around social networking sites, it all spreads likewildfire.
"Somebody might send it to somebody else's phone and that person has Facebook on the their phone and they automatically upload it to their Facebook or MySpace page," explains SomaliaYaborow, 16, of Alexandria, Va.
ABCNEWS.com
What teens don't realize is just how serious the consequences can be.
News reports are increasingly documenting legal repercussions after indecent photoappear online. And attorneys say there are many unanswered questions about whether young people who send their own photos could face prosecution for obscenity or child pornography.
This year inWisconsin, a 17-year-old was charged with possessing child pornography after he posted naked pictures of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend online.
In Alabama, authorities arrested four middle-school students...
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