When sexy goes wrong for teenage girls. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention recently release this PSA “Think Before You Post” to serve as a reminder to young girls everywhere about the consequences of acting too-sexy on the internet.
Social networking is here to stay thanks to Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg, it is now easy to share personal moments via photo-sharing and updates. With all good things, comes the bad. The negative part of this social network era is that our young women are becoming competitive and yearning for male attention through revealing photos and intimate talk on Facebook and Twitter.
Think Before You Post website reports, “If practiced safely, there can be many positive aspects of social networking. You can connect with friends and seek like-minded individuals. However, you should understand how posting too much information on your profile and communicating with people you’ve only met online can put you in potential danger.”
What young girls don’t know that there are dire consequences such as their reputation being dragged into the mud:
You can’t “take back” the online text and images you’ve entered. Once online, “chat” as well as other web postings become public information. Many web sites are “cached” by search engines, and photos and text can be retrieved long after the site has been deleted.
Teens have been punished by their families; denied entry into schools; and even not hired because of dangerous, demeaning, or harmful information found on their personal sites or blogs.
For more information visit Think Before You Post website
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