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I am the student minister at a church in Saint Charles. I lead the team and work primarily with High school department. I love to teach and simply being with students. I hope you enjoy the thoughts that I have expressed and I look forward to hearing your opions.

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The Cellular Generation

With the release of the iPhone, iPod touch, the voyager and many other web based phones we are seeing new levels of communication occuring.  Students and adults alike are now using there phones to fulfill their sexual appetite.  It only makes sense that this is the next place to go with technology.  Parents don’t realize you can go there on an iPod or phone and they are less likely to check the phones on a regular basis.

Here is the article that I thought was worth posting on this.

Think your teens are using their cell phones only to keep in touch with you? Or maybe to make plans to see a movie with friends? Think again.

According to recent news reports, many teens are using cell phones to circulate nude photos of themselves. As one of our bloggers at The Point noted recently, girls and boys have come a long way from passing notes around in class.

What is going on here? For one thing, in the Internet age, pornography is an everyday reality in the lives of many teens. It has become normalized.

Add advanced personal technology like modern cell phones to the mix, and we have got a real problem, according to noted San Diego State psychology professor Jean Twenge. “Adolescents are not known for thinking things through,” she writes. “That is a generational constant. . . . Now, with the technology that is out there, instead of taking a picture,” she says, “and passing it around the classroom, it’s online, which is a whole different ball game.”

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