Marsha’s Reviews > Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boys, and the New Realities of Girl World > Status Update

Let's talk about the boys' roles in sexting. To some boys the collection and exchange of sexts is basically the teenaged version of baseball card trading. It's all about the chase,a bout eliciting sexts from the elusive hot girls. And it's about boys having power over one another--as one boy put it to me, "I have the Derek Jeter card and you don't."

YOU: "Lauren, why do you think I'm flipping out?"
LAUREN: "I didn't do anything, and you're acting like I killed your dog!"
YOU: "I'm telling you that I don't like it when you embarrass me around Mike and Jack."
LAUREN: "OMG! I am totally not doing that! You are being so overly sensitive!"

"Look, we made an agreement about how you could post things onto the Internet. I know what you did was an honest mistake, but it's important to take responsibility for your actions. To the best of your ability, you are going to remove the post. You are also going to ask your friends if anyone forwarded it to any other social networking site and you're going to do whatever you cant o pull that down as well."