Pew Research conducted a survey of 800 teenagers between the ages of 12 to 17 with a parent of guardian in the room about sexting, and of those only 4% admitted to sending nude painting pictures of themselves, while 15% said they’ve received naked images of other teens. The older a teenager gets, the more likely it is that he or she has committed the act of sexting, with 8% of 17 year olds saying that they’ve sent nude painting images of themselves and 30% saying they’ve received images from others. Out of the teenagers who paid their own earphone beak, 17% of them admitted to sexting piece only 3% of the teenagers whose mommy and dad pay the bill say they’ve done the digital naked polka. These are numbers given out with a parent in the room, imagine how high the sexting pace really is if the kids answering the questions didn’t fear getting the shucks rhythm out of them when they got dwelling house. Either way, the 27 varlet reputation is filled with hilarious quotes, definitely a recommended read:
“If a guy wants to assemblage with you, he’ll send a pictures of his private parts or a naked picture of him[self]. It happens about 10 times a calendar month,” explained one older high gear school girl. “It’s mostly the guys I appointment or just a guy cable that…really wants to hook shot up with you. I’m not really that character of human [who sends sexts], but I have friends who have.”
“This daughter sent pictures to her fellow,” wrote one older high school boy. “Then they broke up and he sent them to his friend, who sent them to like everyone in my school. Then she was supposed to come to my school because she got kicked out of her schoolhouse because it was a Catholic school … it ruined high gear schoolhouse for her.”
And the most crap answer I’ve ever heard, something that only a tyke who is afraid of his female parent would say: “Well unity time this loony daughter who had liked me sent me a nude picture of her for no reason. This was the only meter. It was someone I knew for a while but we began to not be friends. [Sending the images was] over the line because they were graphic and completely uncalled for.”
I rich person to quote Danah Boyd, Social Media Researcher at Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Research New England and a Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Net and Society, who gave this language at Le Web and Supernova:
“One of the reasons wherefore citizenry fearfulness the technologies we make ar because they make matter visible that we don’t like. Parents aren’t comfortable eyesight the bullying and harassment that happens everyday in schools around the nation. So they rap the engineering for devising what has always been there more visible. Bullying isn’t radically on the ascent, but it is most distinctly more visible now than ever before.”
Replace intimidation with sexting and you get the exact idea of how I feel. Sexting is simply the 21st century version of “you appearance me yours and I’ll show you mine”.
Leave kids alone. Let them be kids.
