Came across this blog entry just now. It is intersting, so I thought I should post it here. Here it goes:

Sexting - Serious Consequences

Are your kids “sexting”? That is sending graphic images of themselves or friends to others via text messaging? This is a disturbing trend, that one recent study claims 20% of teens are engaged in this activity. Obviously, sexting can have significant consequences.

Sexting, while a relatively new term, is just another method of sending or accessing inappropriate content, and should be viewed as a form of online CyberBullying. This type of content, has in the past been emailed or posted on personal web pages, but has really taken off because texting is a primary method of communication amongst adolescents and young adults.

Is this simply a case of kids being kids, and making mistakes and bad choices? Or are these felonious activities that will have life-long consequences? Several recent high-profile cases now have lawmakers debating and scrambling on how to treat minors involved in these cases.

In Massachusetts, several boys face possible child pornography charges. Others states, including PA and OH have actually brought felony charges against minors for sexting. It appears that these cases have been settled with lesser charges, but clearly these can have a long-lasting effect.

Regardless of the interpretation of the laws on child pornography, the consequences of sexting can be far-reaching. The reputation of the child whose image is sexted can be sullied and leave them open to further cyberbullying. Images can be posted online, or traded in the digital underworld and find their way to child predators. Recipients and senders could be labeled sex offenders. These are all potentially life-ruining events.

Parents, wake up! We have to know what is happening online. Arm yourselves with knowledge. Ask questions, limit the use of technologies. The stakes are way too high to put our heads in the sand.

*Taken from this page.


It was my college's open day yesterady morning. I did not go, but Seansterz told me that there was a constant flow of people going in and out, so nett flow is zero xD. I called him to have lunch together. When I got out of my unit, guess what happened? If a person with a bleeding nose came to you and say 'Hi', what will be your first reaction? If Seansterz did not greet me, I never knew that guy was him.

He banged himself on a metal pole when trying to pick up my call. I was speechless when I heard his explanation. 2 of his teeth were dangling, and he is sitting in the middle of the road crying. He said he asked for tissue paper from the guard house, but the security guards gave him newspaper instead. Hah, pawned by metal pole and a piece of newspaper!! Seansterz said most of the part was his carelessness, and some part was my fault, so I walked him to look for help. We walked pass 3 clinics at the same row as McD and all of them were having lunch break.

Then we were in front of A Qualitas Clinic. The nurse inside was reluctant to let Seansterz inside at first, keep making the hand sign 2 (or maybe victory?). What she meant was that the clinic will only be reopening at 2. He was let in later still and got his swollen wound fixed up by a Punjabi doctor, that was what he said. I have to sit in the clinic for 10+ minutes waiting for him. A small wound for 54 bucks, a price for cleaning up a small little wound with an injection LOL. That will be an experience for him, since he got so many attention from the others, especially when we sat down and had our lunch at 面对面.

10.43 a.m. now, have to think of what to do the whole day. By the way, the teeth and crying part is fake xD. Have to go now, ciao~~


By,
Blue-Wingz