Unfortunately, those teens were not the only teens to take the path of suicide recently.

Texting, Sexting, and Suicide

Let’s face it, as any parent or teacher knows, teenagers can be a delight, and they can be horror. It all comes with the territory, the maturation process, as they test the limits, push the envelopes, and drive parents to drink and distraction.

The horror part was recently accented in an article titled,“Teen Commits Suicide–Is Texting to Blame?”(http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/03/06/teen-comm... ) That title is misleading as seen in this article which recounts the story of Ohio teen, Jessica Logan, who evidently did not end her life because of texting, but more precisely because of “sexting.”

Jessica, 18, had made it through the worst of teenage years, the high school years, but she had left behind a legacy, a history which by today’s standards wasn’t exceptional, except to Jessica. She had made the mistake of taking texting to the new, popular extreme of sexting, the craze of many of her peers which involves text messaging suggestive pictures of themselves to bf’s (boyfriends) and bff’s (best friends forever, in teenie lingo).

Jessica sexted compromising picture(s) of herself to a boyfriend who, following their almost inevitable breakup, forwarded them to hundreds of other girls. What Jessica and other girls–and the craze is largely though not exclusively confined to girls–forgot is that nothing is forever, especially true loves and best friends at that stage of their young lives.

Described as vivacious, fun, artistic, compassionate, and a good kid by her mom, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29546030/ , which Jesse no doubt was, her lack of discretion and foresight are easily forgiveable, given her age and the perverse popularity of sexting in her set, but the consequences to her proved overwhelming....

(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/ .)