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As technology advances, so do the means by which teens can communicate information and pictures to each other. The speed and ease at which they can transmit makes doing so without adequately contemplating the consequences more likely.

Cell phones are now embedded with cameras and have the capability to send pictures to other phones and computers. Mixing these with teenagers, who are sometimes impulsive and lacking in judgment to begin with, invites a host of problems. Cell phones are small and discreet; therefore it’s possible for someone to be photographed without their permission or knowledge. Cell phones are ever present; therefore, no opportunity to snap a photograph is missed. And pictures can be sent to others quickly and en masse.

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Sexting and Teens is an article about teenagers and how they are abusing the use of cell phones. Sexting has become as trend to some teenagers in this article Susan Carney explains how it is bad and goes against morals. Since technology has expanded there are cell phones with cameras now and teenagers have been sending sexual pictures and messages to each other. There are lots of risks like using sexting to sexually harass, attention seeking through sexting and the legal issues that come with. This relates to the theme because technology has expanded so much that it now is undermining traditional morality and authority. It undermines traditional authority /morals because teenagers were not raised to such degrading things. One of the specific connections is that in the story and the article its shows those things are done without thinking about the consequences. George and Lydia spoiled their kids and depended on the house not thinking that there could be a day that things could change. In the story David McClean says“Why’d you starve tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen “ because they have been relying on technology that they don’t even notice things that have been going around the house let along start cooking. And in the article it says that “Kids who send these pictures don’t think about the kind of message it sends to others about them or what people think of them”. This proves that technology undermines traditional morality because kids sending naked pictures of themselves and parents relying on technology and not thinking about it was not the way we were thought. The next connection is how it undermines authority. The kids in The Veldt got so used to their nursery that they stopped listening to their parents. In the article it says how there have been several charges with child pornography and yet people ignore it and go ahead with it. Basically teenagers and kids don’t like to listen to the bad stuff that technology brings because they are o caught up with the advantages.