We have already talked on occasion about sexting, a practice that consists of sending, through new technologies, intimate images of a sexual nature and voluntarily by the one who stars in them.
Unfortunately, sexting is a practice with increasing prevalence among children and adolescents, so the Friendly Screens initiative in collaboration with Google and other organizations has launched the campaign "Think before sexting. 10 reasons not to practice sexting", with the one that they intend to sensitize the youth of the potential risks arising from this act.
Ten reasons not to sextate
As our colleagues in Xataka Mobile told us, about 40 percent of American teenagers have shared at some point through their mobile phones, messages of a sexual nature and photographs with full or partial nudes, a practice known as sexting.
In most cases, sexting it's done as part of a joke or among trusted people, but still it can have serious consequences due to the speed reached by the virality of the shared content, the loss of control of the information and the danger of falling into bad hands.
AdvertisingTherefore, the initiative "Friendly Screens" has launched the decalogue "10 reasons not to perform sexting", with which it intends warn children and teenagers through animated videos and informative posters, about the dangers of sexting:
1) When you sex, there is an implied person on whom you now depend: that is, the photographs or videos that you have voluntarily shared with someone, are now in the hands of another person and what you do with them is beyond your control.
2) People and relationships can change, and the person you now trust and send your intimate photographs could change their feelings towards you in the future and put you in a commitment to the material in their possession.
3) The Protection of digital information is complicated, and although the person to whom you have sent your photos does not intend to share them with anyone, accidental situations may occur where the graphic material is accessible to third parties.
4) The distribution of digital information is uncontrollable: When you send a photo over the Internet, it will escape your control forever, even though you think you control it if you use applications that destroy the message in seconds when your receiver has seen it.
5) An image can provide a lot of information: You can fall into the error of thinking that by not showing your face you will not recognize the person who stars in the picture. But an image can provide a lot of information through tattoos, piercings, jewelry ... Without forgetting that the person who has your photo could reveal your identity at any time
6) There are laws that penalize actions linked to sexting: If a child under 18 decides to share photographs or videos of a sexual or erotic nature with another person, he or she will be committing a crime of possession of child pornography, and in the event that he / she shares that photograph with other contacts, he will also incur a crime of distribution of child pornography and a crime against privacy and the right to self-image.
7) Sextorsion may occur, if the sexting image falls into the hands of blackmailers.
8) Internet is fast and powerful and if sexting images are shared on the network, the reach will be fast in a matter of seconds and the situation will become uncontrollable.
9) The moment you upload a photo or video to the Internet, you stop being anonymous. Anyone with whom you have something in common could find and recognize you.
10) There is a serious risk of cyberbullying if the image of sexting is made public on the Internet.
In the link that we have shared you can see a detailed explanation of each of the reasons that are exposed for not sexting, but as a summary we also leave you this video. I think All parents of teenagers or children who already have mobile should see it with them, and explain what this practice consists of and why it can be so dangerous.
Educate children in the good use of technologies
According to the National Statistics Institute, in its Survey on Equipment and Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Homes of 2017, 25 percent of 10-year-olds have a mobile device, a figure that amounts to 94 percent with 15 years.
Statistics indicate that children have increasingly early access to new technologies, so It is essential that parents are properly informed and updated to be able to educate them in their good use, and to take into account all aspects when buying their first mobile.
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