If you've ever dated someone who texted or emailed you an uncomfortable amount of times, asked for lewd photos or made you feel like they were trying to control your life by spying on your social profiles, you're not alone.ThatsNotCool.com is a new site dedicated to raising awareness about digital dating abuse.
Sponsored and co-created by the Family Violence Prevention Fund, the Office on Violence Against Women and the Ad Council, the site is designed to address new and complicated problems between teens who are dating or hooking up--problems like constant and controlling texting, pressuring for nude pictures, and breaking into someone's email or social networking page.
It may not seem like a big problem to some, but for many teens and even adults, the anxiety that can stem from online harassment is very real. And when personal information is distributed, the results can be damaging.
Some teens have even faced criminal charges for having nude photos of minors on their mobile phones. In the eyes of the law, it doesn't matter if that photo is of your boyfriend or girlfriend, share it and you can be charged with distributing child pornography.
ThatsNotCool offers videos, a forum and downloadable graphics you can
email to people who are harassing you online. Referred to as "callout
cards" the graphics can be shared to Facebook and Myspace directly from
the site.
My personal faves:
"You must be proud to have nothing better to do than IM me all day."
And...
"It was so satisfying to waste the last 12 hours IM'ing."
Come to think of it, those would've come in handy last year when my ex was inundating my inbox with Lolcats.
My personal faves:
"You must be proud to have nothing better to do than IM me all day."
And...
"It was so satisfying to waste the last 12 hours IM'ing."
Come to think of it, those would've come in handy last year when my ex was inundating my inbox with Lolcats.
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