New addition to parents’ vocabulary: “sexting”

Dear Ate Anna,

My friend is complaining that nowadays children are growing up in the “digital” world and they don’t know how to interact with “real” people anymore. During summer holidays, her daughter spent a lot of time on the computer social networking with her friends on Facebook and text messaging on her cell phone. My friend also mentioned that she hoped her daughter didn’t do “sexting.” Ate Anna, I don’t know this term. What is sexting? This is something not good, isn’t it? I have a daughter who is now in Grade 9. How can I protect her?

Rosaline