03-22-2011, 05:25 PM
(03-11-2011, 11:43 AM)Touchstone Wrote: Eventually, when a lot of people have been hurt a lot, a concerted education programme might be put in place which will over a generation or two change attitudes. But we're talking 20-30 maybe 40-50 years. See smoking and drinking and seatbelts and crash helmets and condoms and...I totally agree with you touchstone on every point you've made.
In the meantime, kid's peers reward them with social approval for sharing items which they find amusing or cute or sexy. No amount of adult disapproval is going to convince the girl trying to catch the eye of some boy that posting pics of herself in her underwear won't do the trick, or the boy posting videos for his mates of himself skulling half a bottle of vodka before climbing on to the roof of his house and jumping over the fence into his neighbour's spa pool that he isn't the coolest fucker ever.
I've plenty of regrets all for the sake of a pretty boy's favor ... things I knew full well of.
And as kids will be kids, by implementing some sort of Internet safety program into the schools hopefully some will be spared pain and regret.
My girlfriend's daughter took in a girls night sleep-over that went from silly picture posting to a nightmare for the families.
You give to the world when you're giving your best to somebody else.