"Nude photos and cruel messages, teen digital dating abuse grows"
Summary: Allyson Pereira recalls her sophomore year in high school, when her boyfriend abused her via email, instant messaging, and MySpace. He then broke up with her, and a month later, changed his mind. He requested that she send a nude picture of herself to him, and then they would get back together. Allyson feels foolish for have making that mistake-- after sending him the picture, her boyfriend sent it to others in the school, and the two never got back together. Allyson, now 21, was later featured in the MTV show "A Thin Line" and spoke about the pain she went through. Studies have shown an increase in acts like these: digital abuse, like sexting, or uploading racy photos to the Internet to humiliate a person.
Response: Sexting and sending nude photos is one of the most disgusting and humiliating acts for a person to commit. It causes people to have no respect for you, and in the end, nobody will remember you from before the messages. You'll be remembered as the girl or boy who sent that picture, and you'll be labeled. A teen feels the need to give in to this pressure either to be liked or to fit in. Peer pressure is one of the worst things about school and life, and we should all try not to give in.
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