I have sent photos, but I’m grown. I don’t think young kids should have cell phones and I do think parent have the right to search through it as long as they are paying the bill. Kids are always trying to be grown. It’s up to the parents to let them know right from wrong and to keep them from growing up so fast. They shouldn’t be putting themselves out there like that. Hopefully the arrests will make them think twice.

lol @ phones sexing!

These days almost everything u send with your phone can be viewed online so if you’re gonna send some private stuff like that u have to be aware of the risks and be willing to deal with any consequences that come with it….

that being said…

them two boys were idiots!! what in the hell they doin going around askin elementary girls..matter of fact any girls..to send them pics. Dumbasses!!!

theres some major cockblocking goin on here…lol

There just kids and I think arresting them for this is a tidbit too far. You would hope the 18 year-old would have more sense but both are still young.

I dont care if my nude pics get out its just pics and its just nudity. I think it so dumb anybody would lose anything because of pics getting to somebod else. I feel like people should only be punished when theydo things purposely to hurt other people. If there is no harm do then there should be no foul.

Hell yeah parents have the right to go thru under age kids phone matter fact thats damn good parenting. I hate this new age BS its a parent job the mold a child into in an adult the best way they know how.

lol @ “phone sex” literally

I think it is a very serious matter about these kids doing what they see grown ups do. That is how it happened in all reality.

I am a grown woman and I have gave in to boyfriends saying send me a picture so I can see you if were far away from each other. I am just hoping they are not still floating around in cyberland.
Quick question: Does delete really delete, or does it just sit in cyberland?

Should I ever have children, I’ll send them to an all girls/all boys boarding school up in the Swiss Alps in the middle of nowehere that’s run by nuns. End of story.

I send video messages all the time. It helps keep my man focused on me. I have a thing for porn as it is and am a very sexual girl so watching myself does it for me, and his reaction also does it for me. We are consenting adults so I’m not worried about getting arrested. If anything I’m more proud of my work. Anyone who gets a hold of my phone would be pleasantly surprised.

the most i have done is with my breast on the phone. I don’t think i would go beyond that.

As far as giving kids “privacy” they’ll be lucky if they have their bedrooms door attached. Mommy wants to know. If i do decide to give my children a cell phone when they get older, it would be monitored. Cell phones are mostly replacing phone booths, if my children were stranded or an emergency arises I would like them to have immediate access to reach me, without searching for a street phone that works or coins to make that call. It is just up to us to teach them responsibility and hope that they do the right thing.
It’s kinda scary being a parent and i pray that some of the things i did growing up my kids would not do. i hope that they have more sense than mommy did.

I don’t trust anyone enough to do anything of the sort. I guess I feel that I am too old for that. Still this is hilarious and wrong on so many level. And kids to day are too dayum sexual. When I was 12 i still had on dresses, bows, white lace socks and black patent leather shoes. My parents made me be a kid until it was time for me not to be a kid. I had no idea what sex was until I got in High School, when boys made me know i was cute or sexy. I had always known I was pretty but as far as becoming sexual, I had no clue.

I can understand adults doing it, but actually I can’t, who really has the time to sit around and text pornos. Making a made for home viewing adult film I am down with, but via cell phone. I know technology has truly reached a peak but still, getting off from the little ass screen on ya phone….WOW, I have too much going on for that.

That’s why kids thinks it’s okay because their parents and their parent’s friends think its okay. I always speak from a parents point of view, because sooner than later my son eventually has to go to school with these hethans.

I did an article on “sexting” (I hate that term) back in January. On the legal side, DAs need to use some discretion when prosecuting these cases so we don’t end up with a bunch of sex offenders who haven’t done much of anything. Doing so, I believe, will erode the credibility of any sex offender registry and allow real pedophiles to go undetected.

In terms of the kids… they’re going to be kids. It seems extremely ironic to me that people get more up in arms about kids doing “sexual things” than when kids ACTUALLY HAVE SEX. Maybe I missed something. Kids are going to do what they do, parents need to start communicating, hope for the best, and be ready for the worst.

No comment on grown folks sexting. Do what you do, be ready for the worst and keep it moving.

I just want to add to the initial post about arresting teens for “sexting.” I heard about this on the news last week and they also arrested and 15 and 16 year old girls for sending and receiving pics because they said they are minors and that is child pornography everytime they send pics of themselves. Yeah, I think they are going too far by arresting the teens they are just being horney teens. Thats when the parents need to step in and monitor their kids online activity and cell phone activity. I think an appropiate age for a teen to have a phone is 14 and it should be greatly monitored.

I just didnt a post on sexting as well… as used one of the same pics you didn… but my post is for grown folks only.

I definitely dont think anyone should be arrested for this, but teens do need to know the consequences that are permanent when choosing to send other immature kids sexually explicit pics of yourself.

that graphic is too funny (and just a lil disturbin:) lol

I live close to the Spotsylvania area and sexting is pretty serious here. My brother is 16 and my mom took his phone away. My mom had to have a “talk” with him. He wasn’t sending or receiving nude photos but he was sending 100s of texts to girls late at night.(he made the bill $80 over the regular payment) He can’t get another phone until he can pay for it himself. I didn’t get a phone til i was in college and i think high school kids should have phones without a camera.
Personally I would never send a nude pic of myself to someone. Delete doesn’t mean its erased forever!

This is so intresting. Im doing a project on this now. There is one case where a young lady in high school commited sucidide because her ex bf was going around showing nude pics of her.

Parents need to do something about this. Lets try talking with your children. I feel like a teen should have a cell phone with so much going on now but there are also phones where there can be restrictions put on them. where there is a will there is a way.

I am very disappointed in the fact that out of nowhere, people are now being charged for a technology ‘crime’ without previous warning that this crime existed. I just read an article the other week about a 17 year old being charged with Child Pornography, when he is a child himself. And just recently, a young lady committed suicide due to the embarrassment of her photograph being forwarded throughout her high school.

I think it’s a horrible issue, but it goes back to the parenting. I remember when I was growing up, I wasn’t allowed to have a pager, a 2 way, or a cell phone unless I had a job and could pay the bill. Today, I see 6 year olds walking around with cell phones. For me, that is too much responsibility and privacy for a child and just giving them perks without working for it is teaching them no responsibility whatsoever. A child has no business with a cell phone to use as they please, unless it’s being monitored by a parent. The parents should feel and be held responsible in cases such as those. I remember not being able to talk on the phone after 8 pm. Nowadays kids are out of control and it’s the parents fault, if they monitored what their children did we would not have these issues. Children are not taught respect or responsibility today so what do we expect? People are letting video games, computers, and cell phones raise their children. They are taught no values or morals.

And to add to my last comment…
We are ( at a fast rate ) becoming the dumbest nation in the world. We are falling behind on our education systems and the education of our children. I feel it is due to issues like this. People that have NO BUSINESS having children are out having kids they don’t want to raise so they let technology raise them and this is the ending result. We have a bunch of uneducated, classless human beings that grow up and think it’s ok to take their clothes off and send it to everyone in their high school. If the people and parents don’t take action real soon we are going to have a major crisis on our hands when these children become adults.

I can not resist on this one. Someone commented on horney teens just being horney teens. The arrests should happen. These kids are having orgies and everything else when mommy and daddy are not home. That little fact can be looked up. Plus these parents are not parenting, if they have not taught their kids the kids right from wrong someone has to pay the price. Unfortunately we pay the price of being young and dumb. Besides if someone doesnt teach these kids a lesson, these same kids will be in jail and/or pregnant. There is no such thing as a teen being a teen on sexual issues! It all has consequences.

@Nicki

I remember being a teen and you do dumb stuff. It doesnt mean your parents are bad(they are if they let you get away with doing dumb stuff) ,but teens are dealing with so much emotional. Locking these kids up isnt the answer 1st because sex isnt a crime.

I think we have a tendency to get all “holyer than thou” sometimes and forget the mistakes we made.

I think we are at a period were we need stronger laws that force parents to be responsible for there lil “brats”. I dont understand how we can hold people responsible for the damages there pets do but not the damages there kids do.

We as a country(white or black) are all in this together.

@da Throne
I remember being a teen also. That is what I’m going by. You do have a good point that the parents should be responisble for the mistakes the children make. That’s how I raise my child. She’s only four and I feel like everything she does is a reflection on me. If parents were to think that way and teach these children to fear God and the parents, our younger generation might not be so silly.

I think that this Sex – THing is just getting outrageous. I can tell you myself- these “kids” nowadays are Hott ass minors with Zero in their brains.. I also have a facebook and a myspace and all that good stuff and I cant tell you how many times Ive gotten friend requests from the children of some family friends both here in Florida (where ive been living for almost 11yrs) and in the Heights and once i approve them I DELETE them! After seeing the pictures of these ‘children’ who are either girls showing half their asses, no bra and practically making out with their “friends” to Boys smoking weed- a buncha sluttly girls in their pics and worse.. This is a generation that is brought up with both working parents or single parents who are either too overworked & overstressed or just dont give a shit.
I have a 3 and 4 year old and beleive me when I tell you that I am NOT afraid to give a good Ass whooping and I WILL be that Crazy ass mom suprising my kids EVERY and ANY where. I have even chosen to back away from some ‘friends’ due to their lack of parenting skills. So, I agree with Nicki in the Parenting bit- Moms and Dads need to get back in the Parenting Grind and lay down the law. As far as the 18 year old-Charge his azzz…Fuk the bull, he was having Middle school girls send him pics are YOU serious?! Dude is old enuf to go to the club and Im sure he’s knows the girls age.. Then investigate the parents.
Technology is so good in some aspects but just like everything else, if not monitored- it can all go haywire.
PS: Im not sure about this whole cell phone business anyways- How much time can your 14 year old spend away from you to need a cell phone?Get his/her ass a $10 prepaid phone for emergencies ONLY. That way you can monitor hte house phone, internet and even their bookbag. Kids nowadays are getting waay to much freedom and instead of free-ing them, it is trapping them into this Low-school statistic..

Probably the largest controversy in this whole “sexting” ordeal is over whether or not these minors should receive the same conviction/punishments as child molesters or child porn producers. Personally, I think there should be absolute laws against such actions–even for minors. Yet, I still do not believe that the current prosecution process was intended for such cases as these and that there must be a reexamination of the punishments for kid/teenage “sexting” that becomes public. I watched a video on this at newsy.com earlier. It summarizes the controversy and gives varying opinions from different news sources on what should or should not be legal in such cases. It’s worth watching:

http://www.newsy.com/videos/sexting_flirting_with_felony/

Wait Hold Up!!!!

Teenagers are getting arested for sending nude photos over the phone? Wow! That’s pretty extreme! But we can’t necessarily blame it on the parentage……Teens are going to do what they want to do…they have to understand that their actions come with consequences (good & bad)!
Dang when I was growing up we had pagers, & poloraid pictures!!!! Whew things have changed!!!

SideBar/// The 18 year old got caught with pictures on his phone and got arrested..R.Kelly got caught having sex with a minor & he is free!!!!

Where do we draw the lines??

Now for those who say they didn’t have a phone until they were 18. Well guess what your parents didn’t start using computers until they were in their 30s. And you know why? Because they weren’t available. But you got your first computer at 18-22 and you can’t spend a day without your desktop/laptop, right? Same deal.
Think about it. Back in the day nobody had cells. You would drop your kid at school and pick him up and not worry about a damn thing. With cell phones so available, it’s not just the kids that want them. Their parents want them to have them too, so they can reach their child (or significant other) anytime. If for some reason, you couldn’t reach your child and were late to pick him up? How would you feel? Wouldn’t you be worried or be worried that he’d be worried? We have become dependent on that 24/7 reachability. And yes advantages come with inconvenients.

@Mimi in the OC

In your defense technology changes the way we do everything and its just a matter of time before it effects all.

With that said there need to be a line drawn as not to let technology raise our kids for us. IMO there’s is no need for somebody under 10 years of age to have a cell phone. I couldnt keep up with a jacket all day i didnt need a phone.

But lets face it its not technology thats ruining generation its our selfishness that doing it. We are not putting our kids before ourselves and it killing them.

I agree that this is just teenagers being teenagers, but being that we live in an age where everything can become global in just a matter of seconds, it’s THAT much more important for parents to really be there for their kids. Parents just being involved in their kids lives makes a difference, I’ve seen it time and time again.
Just like kids, parents are pressured all the time, parents are sent messages all the time about how to be “good parents.” Beat your kids, don’t beat your kids, let your kids have privacy, take the door off the hinges.” The problem with the way many people approach parenting is that many think that there is a “formula” to making a child into great person, when the reality is that there isn’t.
Being involved in your kid’s life is not about stripping them of their privacy or trying to be the “cool” parent, it’s about knowing your kid well enough to gauge how much freedom they can really handle and reiterating that you’re doing it for their best interest and not just for the satisfaction of having your way as the parent.

Oh and I definitely think sending dirty pics is a bad idea…how many times do we have to see the consequences? lol
I have definitely done it before, and it makes you feel good when those pictures look the BOMB and the person you send them to gets all hype LOL but at the end of the day, I realized that I’d feel much more flyy if they were that hype about my personality and my opinions.
I’m in college now so this type of stuff is rampant, I don’t know how many girls’ boobs I’ve seen in my play-brothers’ phones, and most of the time, they don’t really give a damn who sees them lol Me, myself, when i was in high school, I had a “collection” of all the pics that guy’s had sent me of their dicks…from guys I knew personally, and even guys that I only talked to online.

At this point in my life, my motto is that career I’ll have would require me to NOT be blackmailed with some nudie pics.

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Do people think this sexting trend is getting out of hand?
- Everything is getting out of hand.

Are kids today too sexual?
- Hell yes! They (17 and younger) do things that we (25 ++) didn’t do until we were 25 and up. LOL!

Should there be an age limit on when a child can have a cell phone?
The parents don’t care, so why should we? The parents that do care, scratch that, the people that do care … their concern is manipulated by the masses … so needless to say shit’s creek welcomes swimmers.

Do parents have the right to search through their kid’s cell or MySpace pages?
Do parent have the right? GTOH!!! Hell yes they do! Can we say “Minor” ??

Have you ever sent suggestive flicks to someone and regretted it?

The only thing that I regret is NOT living my life as if it were golden. Or dancing as if no one were watching. Or ….

Have you ever seen someone else’s nude flicks without their knowledge?
I don’t know? If this includes received text to a friend’s phone or what not of a man’s meat? Then yes. Or if this includes surfing the web and finding random postings? Then I suppose perhaps I have.

Are the kids learning about sexting from adults or are some adults just not growing out of it?

Kids have got to get it from some where. My only question is … where?

Peace N Salutations

NWSO is 100% on point regarding the comment about not knowing where someone’s photos could end up. Remember that Dateline series “to catch a predator”? Kids don’t think about the consequences of not keeping their privates private. I bet they would start thinking about it if some hairy, old, fat, naked(without socks on and holding a 6-pack of wine coolers) guy knocks on their door at 1 am in the morning! I’m a customer service representative for AT&T Mobility and 2 out of 5 calls are customers calling for help with their child’s phone and/service. Most major cell carriers do offer ways to block, restrict and limit all types of usage including text and multimedia(pics and video). Parents just need to be responsible and face reality:their kids are not angels.

@ lyndsey. Right on! As I mentioned in my previous comment I work for AT&T Mobility. This customer called in a couple of days ago yelling about how she works nights and she was woken up due to the delivery of her cell bill.I covered my headset microphone so she wouldn’t hear me laughing at her and reviewed her acct. (mean customers are my favorite). She had detailed billing(all in/out calls and texts are listed by date, time,#). The customer’s bill was delivered to by FEDEX in a big box: her teenage son sent/received over 22,000 msgs during the 30 day billing cycle and the bill was to big to fit in a regular envelope! Luckily her service had unlimited messaging included. After I broke it down she said “I’m in awe, I had no clue that my son texts that much” I was in awe of how someone could be that pitiful.

@Lisa aka Rasta74

Wow, that’s hilarious and sad. 22,000 text messages? But the fact the bill couldn’t fit in envelope and had to FedExed? Priceless

I was so glad when this hit the newspapers and magazines b/c I have spoken to my daughter about this and her lil friends continue to send each other pics and what not. I go thru her phone opn a regular basis b/c we had a lil incident 2 yrs ago. Although I told they should be careful about what they send to each other I know it was one of my many lectures that went in one ear and out the other! Well I copied the article out of a mag and gave it to her and her lil friends and we all had a discussion about it! Kids are exposed to so much so quickly and it is so frustrating to me that I have to have so many “discussions” with my daughter so she doesnt get fed any BS!……boy it was the life when I was younger!…..

The people who arrested these children probably did not have anything else to do (like tackling real crime), so they went around destroying innocent people’s lives, just to make it look like they are actually doing something, using against children the very laws created to protect them.

Have they developed PGP (or GPG) for regular (non-smart) phones, yet?

You can see the same issues in hockey. Kids that play contact hockey learn real quick to keep your head up. When they start contact leagues at 16 they get smoked by some guy that weighs 180lbs. If you want to give your kid a cell make sure they know what the hell they are doing or they are going to get hurt. The problem with that is parents wanting to be their kids best friend. You can’t be their best friend your the PARENT. You have bigger issues than being their friend. You need to be their teacher and role model and body gaurd. They need to hate you on ocasion and they need dicipline, which a best friend can not provide. Parents ARE the problem, but behind that because there has always been useless parents, we need laws. Now unfortunatly the law makers in some cases are almost as useless as the parents.