Who am I talking to again?

The internet is an exciting platform to communicate and interact with friends, family, co-workers, and even complete strangers. Even though it seems safe, and seems to be friendly, fun, and flirty, can actually turn into a persons worst nightmare.

Excerpt from The Huffington Post Technology (5/12/20010);
A 37-year-old Texas man has been jailed for allegedly using text messaging to contact and solicit naked photos from his teenage son's female friends.

According to NBC, the unnamed man sent "numerous" text messages, to which a total of three girls responded with explicit photos of themselves.

Police report that two of the three teens were under 16 years old, and one was under 14 years of age. "Investigators said the girls may have been duped into thinking they were sending the photos to a classmate, not a 37-year-old man," NBC writes.

(huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/12/sexting-dad-accused-of-so_n_574037.html)



There is nothing so different about the 3 girls involved in this scandal than any other group of high school girls. They are young, they are innocient, and they haven't been in these situations before, so they do not always know what the right choice is. So whose fault is this? The father was absolutely in the wrong, faking his identity in a pathetic attempt to gain explicit pictures of the teens. The Internet is not always as it appears to be. You may think you are talking to a certain person, but unless you are right next to them, face to face, you might just be talking to a dangerous and/or perverted stranger. For responible parenting, awareness and technology is a must.

What do you think about this story? Do you have an opinion on whose fault this was? Do you have views on what the punishment should be? Feel free to leave a question or comment in the box below.