Source: Redtettemer.com

This Valentine’s Day, one advertising company doesn’t want you to get all dressed up for a blind date. This V-Day, Red Tettember wants you (and whoever else ends up on their site including teenage kids) to relax at home and battle loneliness by sexts to either the man or woman shown on the front page of their website (also known as NimbleFingers and Bilingual).

By clicking on their coinciding hearts, a phone number will be displayed as you are urged to send over a sexually explicit text message and engage in an anonymous conversation with what seems to be, one of their staff members.

Red Tettember have also taken to their Twitter and Facebook accounts to advertise this unique feature, saying “forget online dating. This year, we’re offering to sext you up. The lines are open.” On their Facebook fan page, you can also find discussions based on their sexting conversations, titled ‘Valentine’s day Sext Chronicles.’

What’s the problem you may ask? The Red Tettember website does not offer any safe guards for minors for one. The advertising company is heavily pushing and encouraging sexting as a trend, and what happens when something becomes trendy? Teens and tweens jump on it and turn said trend into a lifestyle.

I’m sure most of you reading this will agree that you do not want any of your teens or tweens engaging in sexting, whether it be with an anonymous advertising employee trying to further his/her career, or with the boy or girl next door. And if your kid is on Facebook, they will have open access to all of Red Tettember’s sexting chronicles. While most are not to explicit, they are definitely not meant for young, innocent eyes. They chronicles are actually quite entertaining as well, which might further encourage kids to read and engage in these conversations.

For example, in the ‘Valentine’s Day Sext Chronicles 4,’ this is how the conversation ends:
Harlequin: That’s so hot!!! Will you marry me? I’m serious.
Bilingual: I work in adv. Sext is all I have to give.”

As an adult, reading through the rest of the chronicles might make you roar with laughter, but this is precisely the type of encouragement that we should be shielding the younger generation from, or at the very least, we should inform them of how to make smart and educated decisions.

Here’s a good place to get start if you want to talk to your kids about sexting: How to talk to your kids about Sexting and The Sexting Trend.

Source:
http://www.redtettemer.com/

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