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< 13 Kids see the darnedest things
type into their phone. If what they’ve written themselves from the content of their mes- surfaces as an embarrassment, Gorman said, sages. They say things and show things via they may resort to saying a friend stole their texts and sexts that they would never con- phone and sent the questionable text. LOL. sider saying or showing in person. There’s nothing funny, however, about how After high school classes watch Irreversible Consequences, Grogan asks students: “Would some young people are using the technology. “You’ve got immature teenagers, and to a you say in person what you say in texts?” lesser extent preteens, equipped with a photo “The majority of kids say absolutely they studio and a publishing press would not,” he said. in the palm of their hands,” Kids who would never Brett Favre said Mark Rasch, a former k ac rb te ar consider getting naked in qu t un Co uld advise wo o wh e cybercrime prosecutor for the os th g front of strangers are sendamon st sexting. ain ag s U.S. Department of Justice en te ing naked photos to people and a nationally recognized they’ve never met, Gorman information security and said. “Fully exposed pictures privacy expert. “What makes are not out of the ordinary,” it a concern is that these she said. “A lot of times pictures can be distributed they’ve seen each other beand can find their way into fore they’ve even met.” the hands of child pornogSeen each other naked raphers.” that is. Some teens exchange A girl excited about a nude pictures before setting new love interest trusts up otherwise blind dates, him. She doesn’t expect Gorman said. her sweetheart to share Her first cell phone could the naked pictures she not even take a picture, she sent him. But they can said, in awe of the backwardspread more quickly ness of the device. Now even than a sexually transthe cheapest cell phones come mitted disease. equipped with cameras—a Even if the boy keeps courtship tool middle-age parthe pictures private at ents never could have imagined fi rst, he may forward during their adolescence. them to friends, post Aliotti said he tried to use them on Facebook the film to urge young people to or possibly even sell think about restricting what they them when he and the girl break up. Sugar in text to what they would reveal in person. the gas tank or slashed tires look like a picnic “I wanted kids to think about that filter compared to the more permanent and emothat pops up when you’re speaking face-totionally scarring trail of destruction a spurned face,” he said. “What’s the difference between lover can leave in the era of sexting. sending a picture of yourself and standing up Though the scenario will no doubt on a table and exposing yourself?” seem far-fetched to a love-struck 17-yearApparently, part of the difference is that old, it happens so frequently that comteens can deny responsibility for what they