Coach Zane
Digital Citizen B5
19 February, 2014
As media developed over time, there were some positive sides like exchanging information quickly and efficiently. However, dark sides are also growing along with them. Now days, teenagers are using text messages as a weapon. Teenage "sexting" is becoming a serious problem in many places. Sexting is the practice of sending nude or sexually suggestive photos by cellphone(Koppel). This might seem like a trivial mistake some teenagers can make, but it can actually ruin a person's life. According to an article, an eighth grader named Margraite sent a nude photo of herself in the mirror to her new boyfriend, but they soon broke up and her boyfriend eventually sent her photos to all of his friends. It was tough for her so she had to find a new start in another school. “Having a naked picture of your significant other on your cellphone is an advertisement that you’re sexually active to a degree that gives you status,” said Rick Peters, a senior deputy prosecuting attorney for Thurston County, which includes Lacey. “It’s an electronic hickey.”(Hoffman) This issue of "sexting" is not only for teenagers, but also for some adults. Representative Anthony D. Weiner, a rising star in Democratic politics who many believed would be the next mayor of New York City, admitted on Monday to having had inappropriate online exchanges with at least six women, and repeatedly lying about sending a sexually suggestive photograph to a young woman over Twitter last month. “Over the past few years, I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I had met online,” Mr. Weiner said.(Barbaro) Sexting isn't just a joke, it is actually a serious crime. Oklahoma has proposed a law that would impose one set of penalties for "consensual" sexting between two people ages 14 to 18, but provide possible stiff jail terms for other types of teenage sexting. States will have to continue to tweak their criminal laws to cope with changing technologies, lawyers and legislators say.(Koppel)
Works Cited
Barbaro, Michael. "Tearful Weiner Admits Sending Explicit Picture." The New York Times. The New York Times, 06 June 2011. Web. 19 Feb. 2014Hoffman, Jan. "A Girl's Nude Photo, and Altered Lives." The New York Times. The New York Times, 26 Mar. 2011. Web. 19 Feb. 2014.
Koppel, Nathan. "Are 'Sext' Messages a Teenage Felony or Folly?" The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, 25 Aug. 2010. Web. 19 Feb. 2014.
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