What is SEXTING?????

We have all heard the word, Sexting many times, but no one has actually understood what it meant. To people its just sending naked photos to a boyfriend/girlfriend just for pleasure. Its not only sending explicit photos, but also explicit messages by cell phone, email, or IM messengers. Sexting is most popular by cell phones. Now that technology has improved, the use of them has increased as sending explicit has increased, especially among most teens. There have been many documentaries on Sexting but teens have not bothered to actually pay attention and watch them. I never knew it was such a big issue until I seen a episode on it. The show Degrassi is based on teen life, which I find interesting because some things I can relate to as others can as well. In the episode I seen, a young girl Alli Bhandri is dating Johnny DiMarco who is older than her. He has the "bad-boy image" and doesn't want to ruin his rep. by being cuddly buddy with Alli. Alli wants attention so she gets Johnny a phone and begins to send him naked photos of herself. After an arguement that causes them to break up, Johnny sends a picture of Alli to his friend. When Alli trys to take the phone from his frien, he sees the image and so does the teacher. She doesn't get in trouble, but is left with a warning. Alli was lucky enough not to have her picture spread to the whole school, but what happened was enough to set me straight. Teens must think before they send a picture to someone, even if they trust them. Once the pictue is sent, there's no way to get it back.