In an age where technology is not just a part of life but rather an extension of life we have got to find ways to teach our students how to manage all of this.  They are bombarded with ideas and thoughts through media everyday and are forced to make decisions on how they are going to handle the information.  We are faced with a real issue that has potential to get out of hand very quickly.  Potentially causing a lot of damage to the lives of individuals who do not understand the consequences of something that they deam as funny at the moment.  Parents and churches are going to have to step up and address this with our students and children.

Read the following article and ask yourself what can we do?  Leave your comments and I will gather them together and share them later this week along with some of my own thoughts.

Poll Finds Sexting Common Among Young People: Do Your Kids Sext? If
They Are Would You Know?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Think your kid is not “sexting”? Think again.

Sexting — sharing sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell
phone or online — is fairly commonplace among young people, despite
sometimes grim consequences for those who do it. More than a quarter
of young people have been involved in sexting in some form, an
Associated Press-MTV poll found.

That includes Sammy, a 16-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area who
asked that his last name not be used.

Sammy said he had shared naked pictures of himself with girlfriends.
He also shared naked pictures of someone else that a friend had sent
him.

What he didn’t realize at the time was that young people across the
country — in Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania — have faced
charges, in some cases felony charges, for sending nude pictures.

“That’s why I probably wouldn’t do it again,” Sammy said.

Yet, “I just don’t see it as that big of a problem, personally.”

the rest of the article is here