[A] study released last December found that one in five teens had sent or
posted a naked picture of themselves, and a third had received such a picture or
video by text message or e-mail. One school principal suspects that a random
ransacking of the phones in his school would find indecent pictures on half to
two-thirds of them. Three out of four teens say posting suggestive stuff "can
have serious negative consequences," which means they know it's dumb--and they
do it anyway.
Whoa. This should make us very sad. Let us remember that technology isn't inherently good or bad, but it isn't neutral either. Technology is a social force and shapes how we view the world, and not just what we view of the world. In this context then, we need to remind ourselves that the trace of internet information is never fully erased. An illicit picture posted on the internet or sent to another phone never really goes away. A mistake in childhood will last every time a child-turned-adult wants a job, desires intimacy in marriage, or wants to forget the mistakes of the past.
Unfortunately, the rapid transimission of information is rendering newspapers obsolete, and apparently it's creating an illicit sexual underworld in teen culture. These are not good things, but I have no idea how we stem the tide. Any thoughts?
1 comment:
The answer are parents. The downside is that there are no controls in place for us as parents to monitor what is being transmitted via the camera phones. The responsible thing for the phone manufacturers to do is to build in controls for the parents to be able to monitor Texting as well as Pictures being sent or received.
There are programs that can be added to kids computers to monitor them but zero monitoring in terms of cell phones.
Now. The liberals do not want this nor will they agree to it until their kids are impacted on a massive scale.
From their viewpoint its okay for a teenager to have sex and get an abortion without parental knowledge and so this logic also transfers to Big Brother issues as well.
Buddy
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