CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

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All Teenagers Care About Is Their Modern Technology And Their Sexting

Monday, March 14, 2011

this entry brought to you by radiohead, "house of cards"


I've said it before; I usually don't post chats with a friend verbatim and call it an entry. But I've been staring at my notes for a few hours now trying to come up with enough "Goods" to make a full Polarity, but I don't want more days to go by without an entry, so here we go. I thought this was interesting enough to share.


me: Have I ever told you that I think webcams were made specifically for such taking naked pictures?
Oh hey, that reminds me. So apparently I have misunderstood what "sexting" was. I thought "sexting" was when you sent naked pictures/videos of yourself with your camera on your phone to someone.
And teens sext one another because of course that's what they do.
And that's bad, obviously, but of course they fucking do.
We had Polaroids in our time, and that's what we used them for, taking pictures of one another naked.
What the fuck else is a private camera for?
But some company introduced an app that you can download to your kids phones, and they would text you when it caught your kids sexting with someone.
And I was like, how the hell would it know what picture some teen sends someone?
The article said that it looked for keywords in their texts to see if they were sexting, and would alert you.
And I was like, WTF?
So you mean "sexting" is just texting about sex?
Fucking seriously?
I could give a shit if my teenager is TEXTING about blowjobs.
Because teenagers are a whole lot of talk. Every teenager can talk a huge amount of talk when it comes to sex, but that doesn't mean they're actually doing it or even ultimately plan on doing it.
I give a shit if they're sending photos to one another, you know?
But who gives a shit if they say "blowjob"?
Well, obviously I do care, but it is SO far down my list of priorities that it seems weird to actually secretly download a program onto their phone instead of just taking their phone occasionally and checking their last text messages sent/received.

me: Like, if all this fuss about "sexting" is simply them using sexual terms with their texts, parents need to either a) get over themselves, or b) take away their cellphone, because they WILL talk about that shit.
If your teen has a cell phone, you don't need a fucking app to be able to tell that they're talking about things you don't want them to talk about? Just assume that they are-- because they just ARE-- and if you care so much, stop buying them technology they don't need.
Sent at 11:54 AM on Tuesday Kristen: i agree with you. they're gonig to do this in person, then, or on the internet. one way or another, your kids are going to experiement sexually.
i'd be grossed out and concerned if they were sexting and sending pics.
i'd probably freak out a little and ask them if they're having sex and get kinda cheesed if they are.
but well... the next day would be fine, and i'd realize that my kisd aren't really kids anymore.
me: Again, it's taking pictures that I am worried about. If they had that app, I would want it, but how would an app be able to tell "Ah-ha! This picture has nipples! And then the next text received was a wiener!"
But psh, talking about it means nothing. Kids are a lot of talk.
You know, I really don't like cell phone cameras for teenagers.
I really, really don't.
I also don't like webcams on laptops.
But you cannot buy a cell phone nowadays without a camera, and you cannot buy a laptop without a webcam.
Sent at 12:01 PM on Tuesday me: Have I ever told you what I'm going to do if I catch Celest having sent photos to someone?
Kristen: no.
me: I'm going to show her a few porn videos I have.
See, I like amateur porn. So the bulk of my collection is all amateur.
And I'm going to find videos of girls going "Hi Ted, don't ever show anyone this!"
And I'll say, Celest, I don't know this girl.
And this girl does not know me.
And yet somehow, despite her specifically saying for Ted to not show anyone, I have this video on my harddrive. I have hundreds of them.
And I've had some of them for YEARS.
EVERYONE can see the Internet, the Internet is FOREVER, and people are not trustworthy with stuff like this.
Kristen: hahaha! :)
at first, i was like, "where the fuck is chris going with this whole 'i'm gonna show my kid porn' idea?"
but no, that's a GREAT idea.
Sent at 12:06 PM on Tuesday
me: Well, it won't be the double-creampie orgy video, that's for sure.
I'll just find some video of some naked girl dancing.
There's plenty of it out there, after all :)
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with love from CRS @ 11:58 AM 

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