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Youth Sexting Research Paper

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Reflection Assignment - Sexting and Youth I believe the discussion surrounding sexting and youth presented my best work within the discussion component of this course. This topic in itself really interested me because I’ve seen the negative impacts that sexting can have on young individuals when I myself was in high school. I began the week only really viewing sexting as a fully negative thing to do when individuals are young, but by the end of the week I grew to have a more complex opinion and I believe that came from properly participating in the discussion and truly taking an interest in the topic. Thanks to Sondra I learned all about the legalities surrounding youth sexting, or rather, that Canada does not technically have any specific …show more content…

A classmate, Nicholas had brought up the fact that adolescence is an extremely vulnerable stage in life where teenagers just want to feel accepted and loved. He mentioned that peer pressure, along with the desire to feel loved, may be a possible reason for youth sexting. He then mentioned that youth are impulsive and that they do not think of the negative consequences of their actions. After reading his post, I recalled a term I had learned called the invincibility principle. The invincibility principle consists of youth believing that they are the main focus of everyone around them causing them to continue their egocentric thinking until they believe that they are extremely unique, that laws don’t apply to them and that they are ultimately invulnerable to any consequences of risky behaviour (Elkind, 1970 as cited in Vickman, Anderson & Smith Greenberg, 2008). I then discussed how I believed that this concept could potentially be a reason that youth participated in sexting. I believe that bringing up the invincibility principle furthered Nicholas’ knowledge and as well as solidified his previous reasons on why young individuals

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