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Unfortunate for that girl. My senior year was hell for different reasons but I could empathize with her situation and it is sad that it ended in suicide before someone could help her. I think school is one of those deals it's hard to see beyond it when everyone has the knives out for you. You are just trying to get through everyday intact. Fortunately for me I had good parents and one or two good friends otherwise it would have been harder for me to make it.
My sister is a sub teacher in a tough school district and the stories she has to tell are hair raising. You've got prepubescent kids trying to have sex, in some cases on school grounds not to mention all sorts of other nonsense including all this sending of classmates naked pictures or videos via cell phones. Pretty scary what is going on with our youngsters these days. Heck, in the sixth grade I thought a blow job was a haircut, now these days they are doing that and more at that age.
I'd like to see our kids and teenagers at least have some time of innocence before they are overwhelmed with all the crap out there today.
I’m a sub teacher in NYC and have seen this type of behavior so often it makes me wonder. A few weeks ago while talking to a couple of teachers in the hall of the high school I was working at, a young man lifted his girlfriend up, put her legs around his waist and was making like he was having sex with her. We all could not believe what he was doing. He was making like he had entered her and was going through the motions. We broke it up pretty fast but because the administration is so weak in many NYC Harlem schools they were given a light warning. How messed up is that?
There should be a law against this type of thing where the receivers of a picture spread it to others. They have no right to violate a persons privacy. Unless youre selling the rights to Playboy and getting good money for it, there should be no reason to have others look at your naked body without consent. The body might be a beautiful thing to look at, but like so many other beautiful things, sharing is not mandatory.
There should be a law against this type of thing where the receivers of a picture spread it to others. They have no right to violate a persons privacy. Unless youre selling the rights to Playboy and getting good money for it, there should be no reason to have others look at your naked body without consent. The body might be a beautiful thing to look at, but like so many other beautiful things, sharing is not mandatory.
Sorry. You are giving "implied consent" for ANYONE to retransmit ANY photo as soon as you send it over the phone.
Last year our youngest son was a senior in high school.
Our phone rang off the hook for that kid. At least a dozen local girls were calling him day and night. He had no cell phone, but his computer kept getting viruses. So about monthly I had to wipe his PC and re-format it. Looking on his PC, the pictures that I saw!
Local girls take pictures of themselves and IM those pictures to the boys.
We had some talks, but the nude pictures kept coming.
We spoke with parents, and we were blamed. Parents of girls insist that their girls would never do that. But to show them, means you possess child porn. They would rather charge you with child porn, before admitting that their girl needs to be talked to.
It is my understanding this is being taken very seriously and that anyone under the age of 18 weather they are sending or recieving the sexting pics or messages can be charged with felony possesion of child pornography production and distribution.
As a parent myself I think it is our reponsiblity to warn our children of the consequences of their actions. I dont think they realize the magnatude of the situation.
This kinda touches the facebook, myspace, or twitter type community sites. When I am interviewng potential new hire; I search all of the above and then some for variations of the name and a maiden name if available. You can not believe how valuable this is. People tend to let themselves show. Technology is a nasty animal. I work in tech and have seen many different "crazes" over the last 15 years. I remember back gosh it was when internet was delivered in the form of "prodigy", or other proprietary networks. So say 92' pedophiles were claiming curiosity "made" them look. They were "not really into it, just curious", WHATEVER sick is sick. My point is technology is a new frontier, many do not fully think out their choices and the impact it will have. These pervs may not have ever sought out that kind of material had the web not offered a false sense of anonymity. Thing is they did not retrieve data from the host one time they did it over and over again.
On the naked pictures getting sexted around you all NEED to KNOW any message you send is stored at the relay station it was received from for a considerable amount of time. A decent hacker can dump SMS, VMS, MMS logs rather quickly. This means txt, voice, Multimedia messages are not private. These relay stations are so strictly governed to be interoperable and accessible by law enforcement; the bad guys know the back doors that are built in for support reasons. Keep the pics on the phones memory card show the intended person, then take a LARGE MAGNET and rub it all over the memcard. Or keep your clothes on in front of the cam.
You guys that say he was an @ss for doing it are right on! Thing is they are highschool kids. Were you making the best decisions in highschool? I know I was not.
I have a problem with public nudity when it come to our childern. So If you are a parent you would have no problem with your son or daughter sending sexting and having it put on the internet and possibly in to the hands of a pediphile? There a laws out there to protect our children and they are there for a reason do you not agree?
To me, it is even doubly tragic as this girl apparently was quite attractive. So, people at her school have seen her nude... big deal... it's just the human body. She should have received some good, professional counseling to have her accept that fact she made a mistake and how to laugh at or make light of it when others say something teasing, diffusing their mocking efforts. Shoot, in high school, we all see our fellow classmates naked in gym in the showers/locker rooms, so who flippin' cares?
Vanessa Hudgens had a full nude pic she had taken for her BF surface everywhere on the internet not long before HS Musical 2 came out. She played it down quite a bit, made one brief statement that said she'd made a mistake and look at her career - untouched. OMG... everyone knows how Vanessa looks naked - lol - who cares? Neither of these girls' pics were pornographic... it was just plain nudity, so why is that so shameful? It's a sad thing people freak out over nudity.
I mean, we all see ourselves (and our partners) naked everyday, so why would we as society make a big deal over a lousy nude cell phone pic? Why would people torment a girl over such a thing that she would commit suicide? I'm thinking it was the purely evil, malicious betrayal bi her ex-BF that ultimately caused her to sadly take her own life. If only... someone would have reached out to her and reassure her that she'll get past people knowing what she looks like under her clothes... and as skimpy as girls dress nowadays, who really cares?
It deeply disturbs me that a grown man would think that this is no big deal. I pray you never have daughters and that no one's young daughter comes across your path. You'd probably think that it's okay for you to be sexual with her if she came on to you.
It's a huge deal that this girl's self esteem was so low that she felt it would be okay to do this. The fact that she was made the butt of school jokes proves that these children are too young to engage in sexual activity. btw, it probably wasn't so much the teasing but the vicious betrayal of her trust in combination with the constant harrassment that drove her to suicide.
Parents need to start paying attention to their children. Children are being hurt more and more by modern technology. Why do kids need phones that can take pictures and videos? Why do kids need to have their own computers and the "privacy" to use them at will? Between working and trying to their child's friend, parents are failing their children. How children habe to die because of unlimited access to technology before parents wise up and remove these devices from their children? When did being a popular parent outweigh being a responsible parent?
good for you speaking your mind im with you on this point
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