Dangers of Sexting and CVIP There are many risk factors when it comes to sexting. Before one can understand these factors, they first have to know what sexting is. Sexting: the sending of sexually explicit photos, images, text messages or emails by using a cell phone or other mobile device. Sexting is considered a crime and can be followed with legal action. No matter what age one may involve themselves in this crime, they can still be arrested and filed as a registered sex offender for the rest of their lives or until they are the age of 18. The reason why many people get involved in sexting is due to peer pressure. Sex-tortion is when someone intimidates someone else or blackmails them into sending explicit photos, videos, or messages. …show more content…
This is the one risk factor everyone is aware of, but fails to take it into consideration. If a photo is sent to someone that you trust, how do you know they aren’t going to send it to their close friend or buddy? You don’t! Child pornography is a big deal these days. There are people out there who hack into phones and takes pictures and saves them to their device. The photos that you take could end up somewhere where you least expect it. Maybe you lost your phone or left it somewhere. Anyone can pick it up and get all your information and photos. If somehow your photo is leaked, a lot of cyber bullying can also happen. A girl named Amanda Todd was pressured into showing her personal body parts by some guys she met. She went ahead and did even though she knew it was wrong. She was soon blackmailed by that guy into sending more photos and videos. He then got all her information, friends, family, school, phone number, and address. She was cyber bullied non stop because of one mistake. That one mistake cost her her own …show more content…
One red flag is the app Kik. Kik is this messaging app that allows you to customize your profile and send pictures, videos, and cool stickers. It may seem like an innocent app, and most of the time it is. What some people don’t know is that the app is from Canada. Why is that a big deal? It's a big deal because Canada has a law where companies aren’t allowed to scan and search through the messages in the app. So when someone asks for inappropriate pictures, they often ask through Kik. If you meet someone online and they ask for your Kik, that is automatically a red flag and they just want explicit photos. What if you don’t catch onto the red flag? If you don’t catch on and they ask for pictures. Simply say no and screenshot the chat and their username. Then type up a letter stating what exactly happened and put all the screenshots and information into a flash drive. This way all the information is safely saved. The next step is to tell an adult and alarm the cops about this. Tell the cops everything that went down and hand them the flash drive so they can investigate on who the person really is. Another red flag is the “you owe me a pic” card. If someone says that to you, the only thing you can say back to them is “no I don’t owe you jack”. You don’t owe anyone anything. You are not entitled to anything anyone says or tells you to do. You are responsible for your own actions.
1. Wake County health officials are claiming that social networking apps are partly to blame for the sharp increase in syphilis cases around the area. According to the state Department of Health and Human Services, As of Friday, March 18th, there has been a recorded 1,113 early syphilis infections that were diagnosed in 2014, in the entire state as well as county, which is a 62 percent increase from the previous year, when 688 cases were reported. The article states that Wake County saw a total of 233 reported cases of syphilis last year, marking a 15-year high. A Wake County public health division director by the name of Sue Lynn said that when patients who contracted syphilis were interviewed in Wake County, many said they met their partner
Such was the case of Ohio high school student, Jesse Logan, who sent nude photos to her boyfriend who then sent them to other students who harassed her until she committed suicide.2 Currently, there are laws in place against minors sexting and sexting to minors and they fall under the child pornography category. While the laws are intended to protect minors from sexual predators, what most minors do not understand is that they are subject to them as well. This means that, if fifteen-year-old Timmy decides to sext his fifteen-year-old girlfriend, Sarah, a naked picture of himself, both Timmy and Sarah could be tried in court on charges of disseminating child pornography and possessing child pornography. These serious charges can result in having to register as a sex offender for several years, although the message may have been sent and received consensually by both parties. This was the case for an 18-year-old Iowa boy who sent a nude picture of himself to a fourteen-year-old girl after she asked him repeatedly to do so.
The publicity about online predators that prey on naive and inexperienced young children using trickery and violence is largely inaccurate. Internet sex crimes involving adults and juveniles more often fit a model of statutory rape which is adult offenders who meet, develop relationships with, and openly seduce underage teenagers than a model of forcible sexual assault or pedophilic child molesting (Wolak et. al., 2008). However, prepubescent children are even less vulnerable because their internet use is generally more supervised by the parents and guardian. In addition, they use the internet less for communication and are for developmental reasons, less interested in sex and relationships than adolescents.
Now these pictures are not a new thing to do but when disappearing images come into play people don’t think of it as a “big deal”. This app has caused it to become a normal thing and it is now expected for young adults, mostly women, to share their body for men because they think no one else is going to see it and it is going to be gone after ten seconds. What usually isn’t the first thing to come to mind when sending these is screenshotting; if someone screenshots your picture you have no way of telling what they have done or what they’re going to do with it. A study in 2013 took 948 high school students and asked if they have ever engaged in sexting behaviours. 57% have been asked to send a nude photo or a risky message (Temple et. al, 2013 p. 1). That was two years after the app had launched therefore there is no doubt that the numbers have grown larger in the past four
Crespi, T, Segool, N 2013, ‘Sexting at Sixteen: Reflections on Legal and Professional Issues’, The Online Journal of Counseling and Education, vol 4, no.2, retrieved May 14th 2014
Technology and things like social media have a great effect on sexual views, behavior and practice among generations. Recent advances in technology are influencing sexual behaviors because of things like computers, smartphones, sex technology (sex toys, pornography, etc.). The list is growing and so are the many possible uses of these technologies. In fact, one in every ten websites is a pornography website, (Krotoski, 2011). This alone gives individuals access to the erotic, fantasy world of sex. These advances in technology, and the availability of this information has made it easier than ever to enter the world of sex.
Teenagers who take nude photographs of themselves could get charged with child pornography and be put on sex registries, according to a 2013 report from Human Rights Watch. Kids who send naked photos that are viewed in another state could be charged with a federal crime, personal injury lawyer
In the past, hackers sent viruses through e-mail, but now they have upped the ante by creating malicious websites which can infect your computer and collect your personal data. An even larger threat is social networking. While this may seem harmless enough, social media is a huge threat to your privacy because people often overshare information about their personal lives which everyone on their friends list, whether you know them well or not, can see everything that you post and everything anyone posts to you. The fourth major threat to your privacy is video and photo sharing. Once again, this seems like a harmless task, and it is if you post appropriate and non-revealing photographs and videos.
Teen’s today face serious criminal charges when they get in trouble for sexting. Sexting is an exchange of nude or seminude images via a telecommunication device. When teens are engaging in sexting, they are not thinking of the possible criminal charges they can face. Sexting among teens is a common issue that we face today in our highly technological world. Laws are not able to keep up with the rate of technology advancements. Teacher, parents, and Louisiana law makers need to be more aware of this issue to try and protect teens from endangering themselves and their future.
While watching and reading many documentaries, testimonials, and papers about sexting, I have found that sexting could be a gateway to sex, sexual activitys, drugs, drinking, sneaking out at night, and getting yourself into dangerous situations that could have a negative effect on you for the rest of your life. A case study showed that “most teens that participate in sexting have a 42% higher chance of performing sexual acts or having sex than students not sexting”. There are many ways you can protect yourself. “If a sexting photo arrives on your phone, first, do not send it to anyone else (that could be considered distribution of child pornography). Delete the photo(s). If it would help – especially if you're being victimized – talk with a
One of the implications cybercrimes is personal image theft occurs. It means that cybercriminal will take the picture that girl use it on social media to open a new fake account. This will make person have a problem because criminal can do anything with the photos without they know it. When scammer already have photo they will open a new fake account use a photo that they theft and make anything they want such as post indecent picture. When it happens it can be a shameful thing not to owner photo but all the family will involve in this case. It ever happened when their social media account such as Facebook and Instagram suddenly post a porn object without they know it that are responsible take
handle? Some say yes, others might disagree. Social networking was created to connect friends and family together. Now, many predators use sites such as Facebook or Myspace to find their prey. This is the source of what parents are stressing about to their children. While many who use social media are enjoying meeting new people, they are also becoming distant from contact with real people and they are involved in a very surprising and dangerous environment.
...day. With this capability to download, post, stream, and share information at rapid speeds, children who takes snap shots and upload them to Instagram or Twitter may not understand the ramifications of a simple innocent act of posting some cool pictures for some friends to see.
The human need for affiliation creates the challenges and rewards of finding acquaintances, forming close friendships, as well as intimate relationships. Through technological advances cyberspace, or the internet, has become a place of multiple opportunities for people to be able to fulfill that need for affiliation. Websites, chat rooms, and online communities are just some examples of virtual platforms for people to seek others, come together, and find that special someone. These opportunities can result in positive outcomes allowing people to achieve what or whom they were seeking, but they can also result in harm to themselves and others, resulting with damaging consequences. Cyberspace does not come with a warning label. People who use the internet as a means to seek relationships are at risk of being exposed to positive as well as negative results. Being made aware of some of those risks and dangers, and realizing that forming relationships on the internet is not all fun and games, may be ways to help promote a positive future for cyberspace as a place to form successful relationships.
It used to be almost impossible for children to get pornography. Comer stores would place adult magazines such as playboy on the top rack behind all the other magazines so that only the title was visible and it was out of reach of children. Movie stores would have separate rooms at the front of the store for their porn videos; this way they could monitor who went into the room. In today's technologically advanced society, pornographic magazines and videos are becoming extinct. Computer users can easily search for sex sites, with millions and millions or results. All it talks is the click of the mouse and children can visit any site they want. There is know way for Internet sites to monitor who is on there site, if you click the button that says your over 18 they let you in, so a 15 year old can easily get on to the site. Pornographic websites also place other moral and social problems not just on underage teenagers but on adults as well.