An opinion which is itself entirely anecdotal. Seriously, count the number of times you say "I" in this post. Either put up the hard data or accept that one anecdote is as good as another.
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There's a social life outside texting and the internet. It's called going out with friends. It's something I do and continue to do. I was able to research for UIL and History Fair without the internet, which is how I won them. Primary sources from books win out over blog posts. Wikipedia isn't a good source for anything.
The Internet is a vast wasteland of nothing good nowadays. It stifles social creativity and exacerbates social isolation. You need a real friend, not some digital image.
Fringe scenario? These pedos are everywhere, and your naivety isn't going to make them go away. And sexting for teens is a state sex crime felony where I live. Kids have gone to prison over sexting.
Your anecdotes aren't going to sway my opinion, especially since I'm pretty sure you conveniently left out less savory aspects of the internet you have probably accessed, either by accident or by choice. And concerts as an argument for teens using the internet, really? I'm able to find out about good punk rock concerts via word of mouth because they don't publish that information online.
The internet was best when DOS was around. Now every idiot can use it and have a voice. It's mobocracy in action with certain social media sites that rely on upvotes and opaque moderating. I remember when Usenet was around and you could have an actual friendly, political debate in the Clinton era. When I was on Myspace political forums it was subject to internet drama involving naked pictures and cheating, Tea Party Patriots and PUMA trolls infecting the place, and porn bombs.
I keep forgetting that easy, inexpensive access to knowledge and communicating with other people is a bad thing. It's like when the printing press was invented, and people were crying out that books were going to get people to dissociate from reality and pollute their brains with all the awful smut they could now read. Of course, those people were also entirely correct.
Fringe scenario? These pedos are everywhere, and your naivety isn't going to make them go away.
And your paranoia isn't going to make them appear.
And sexting for teens is a state sex crime felony where I live. Kids have gone to prison over sexting.
I don't deny that. But the benefits of instant communication and all of the knowledge of mankind outweigh a few idiots making poor decisions.
One thing Battery is right about is that this is not a fringe problem. Go to any chat room style site with a female username (especial one that mentions being a teenager somehow) and you will be bombarded with "Fringe scenarios". Also the recent Snapchat hack shows that this is not a "few idiots" it's hundred if not thousands of "idiot" teens thinking it's ok to sends nudies of themselves.
What does everyone think was happening before kids sent nude pictures? People think things like this just started happening? Its been going on forever. The internet and technology just made it easier.
What does everyone think was happening before kids sent nude pictures? People think things like this just started happening? Its been going on forever. The internet and technology just made it easier.
The difference is the permanence and the ease that these things happen. It's one thing for two 14 year olds to "play doctor", it's another for one of them to share nudies of the other with their 50 closest friends. Before internet chat rooms, it was not exactly easy to find old dudes coercing young girls into fake relationships. Now I could find dozens within minutes. People used to have to leave the house (or at least have someone over) to get into that kind of trouble. Now you take one pic to share with someone and it could end up on the internet to be viewed by millions.
What does everyone think was happening before kids sent nude pictures? People think things like this just started happening? Its been going on forever. The internet and technology just made it easier.
The difference is the permanence and the ease that these things happen. It's one thing for two 14 year olds to "play doctor", it's another for one of them to share nudies of the other with their 50 closest friends. Before internet chat rooms, it was not exactly easy to find old dudes coercing young girls into fake relationships. Now I could find dozens within minutes. People used to have to leave the house (or at least have someone over) to get into that kind of trouble. Now you take one pic to share with someone and it could end up on the internet to be viewed by millions.
As I said, the internet just made it easier. But to say there wasnt old dude coercing young girls before the internet, is wrong. Everything going on now, was going on before. The 2 differences is the media is all over it now, where in the past the media respected the victims.
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I keep forgetting that easy, inexpensive access to knowledge and communicating with other people is a bad thing. It's like when the printing press was invented, and people were crying out that books were going to get people to dissociate from reality and pollute their brains with all the awful smut they could now read. Of course, those people were also entirely correct.
Silly me.
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One thing Battery is right about is that this is not a fringe problem. Go to any chat room style site with a female username (especial one that mentions being a teenager somehow) and you will be bombarded with "Fringe scenarios". Also the recent Snapchat hack shows that this is not a "few idiots" it's hundred if not thousands of "idiot" teens thinking it's ok to sends nudies of themselves.
The difference is the permanence and the ease that these things happen. It's one thing for two 14 year olds to "play doctor", it's another for one of them to share nudies of the other with their 50 closest friends. Before internet chat rooms, it was not exactly easy to find old dudes coercing young girls into fake relationships. Now I could find dozens within minutes. People used to have to leave the house (or at least have someone over) to get into that kind of trouble. Now you take one pic to share with someone and it could end up on the internet to be viewed by millions.
As I said, the internet just made it easier. But to say there wasnt old dude coercing young girls before the internet, is wrong. Everything going on now, was going on before. The 2 differences is the media is all over it now, where in the past the media respected the victims.