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                    Ten seconds later, that picture still exists

C O M M E N TA R Y           by LIZ JACOBSON                     The most effective way to keep informa-    ing of nude photos: as a joke, to feel      would never betray them, but we have
                                                                 tion secure is to lock any social media    sexy, or because of peer pressures.         all seen the stories of a girl’s pictures
                                  USAFE-AFAFRICA Public Affairs  accounts and turn all privacy settings                                                 being spread around school as a prank
                                                                 on. Many people spend their time click-       Sending inappropriate photos is          or because she made someone mad.
                       Editor’s note: This commentary was        ing on pictures and profiles but it is     not a joke nor will it boost a person’s     These situations are so damaging to a
                    first published in April 2015.               impossible to know who is viewing your     confidence. While it may be a thrill at     person’s confidence and reputation. It
                                                                 profile. It could be a friend from school  first, the psychological damage could       is common to think that someone in a
                       RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany                or it could very easily be an online       deteriorate a girl’s or boy’s self-esteem.  close circle is not going to end up like
                    — There is a conversation many teen-         predator. Before friending or accepting    Everyone experiences peer pressure at       those girls or boys, but it can easily
                    agers have had with their parents or         anyone’s follow request, it is necessary   some point in his or her lifetime, but      happen to anyone with just the click
                    friends, me included.                        to actually know who they are. Social      your body, whether you are male or          of a button.
                                                                 media is a great tool for keeping in       female, is yours.
                       “Hey, don’t worry! It’ll be fine; all of  touch with friends, new or old, and                                                       The number of people sharing in-
                    the pictures I send disappear after ten      family members, but it is important to        For teenagers, Snapchat is the           appropriate pictures is increasing.
                    seconds. That’s how Snapchat works.”         use caution and be responsible.            most common app where pictures are          Sources say that 1 in 5 teenagers are
                                                                                                            shared. Snapchat is available for any-      sharing provocative photos, but it may
                       While many teenagers share only              I have many friends who pride them-     one, regardless of age and it is based      be even scarier that the senders are
                    their silly, cross-eyed, quadruple-          selves on the fact they have over one,     on the idea of pictures disappearing        getting younger. It is hard to imagine
                    chinned faces with friends, there are        two, or ten thousand followers. This is    forever after 10 seconds. Despite this,     that 7th and 8th grade students are
                    teenagers sending inappropriate con-         a dangerous because it is impossible to    it is easy to either screenshot the pic-    sending such mature content, but it is
                    tent that “will disappear.”                  be safe with so many unknown people        ture or use a third-party app that will     happening.
                                                                 seeing so much of their lives.             save the picture automatically for you.
                       High school students all feel a cer-                                                 These pictures can be used against the         I have a younger sister and I believe
                    tain level of anonymity or safeness that        That behavior and feeling of in-        sender at the receiver’s convenience.       that it is my job to warn her and edu-
                    does not exist while using the internet      vincibility starts early. This attitude                                                cate on her on the dangers of sexting
                    and apps like Tinder, Emerald, Cha-          towards sharing everything on the in-         Even two people who have a trusting      and online predators. Everyone in high
                    troulette, Instagram, and Snapchat.          ternet can and has led to unfortunate,     relationship should not partake in this     school should be doing this as well.
                    Unfortunately, it is incredibly simple       yet completely avoidable situations.       kind of activity for two reasons: First,    Do not encourage it by talking about
                    for the receiver to take advantage of        Why do so many teenagers participate       it could be considered illegal. Second,     how much fun and how safe it is in
                    the sent content, and though the pic-        in an activity that can have so many       it can easily be shared or shown to oth-    the locker room. Do not make it seem
                    ture may disappear after 10 seconds, it      bad repercussions?                         ers that are not the intended audience.     okay to these young, impressionable
                    can actually last a lot longer than that.                                                                                           girls and boys. Do not be afraid to stand
                    While these apps can easily be used             Teenage girls reported to Dosome-          According to Dosomething.org, 17%        up against pressures of sending inap-
                    inappropriately, the apps themselves         thing.org and the National Campaign        of “sexters” share the messages they        propriate photos across the internet.
                    are not bad, but should just be used         to Prevent Teen Pregnancy that there       receive with others, and 55% of those
                    responsibly.                                 are three major reasons for their send-    share them with more than one person.
                                                                                                            Everyone wants to believe their friends
                       It is easy to protect yourself from
                    online predators, but it is rarely done.

                    Creating high performance through job satisfaction

                                          by 1st Lt.                                                                                                   goal is to be off an hour early next Friday, you
                                         KRIS LEE                                                                                                      can align the personal goal with the organiza-
                                                                                                                                                       tional goal. This is one way to achieve external
                                                 321st Missile Squadron                                                                                motivation, but our focus is on creating internal
                                                                                                                                                       motivation – creating high performance through
                       F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo.                                                                                                job satisfaction.
                    — Do you like your job? Do your Airmen like
                    their jobs? If you answered no, why? How you                                                                                          American psychologist Frederick Herzberg
                    answer those questions can say a lot about your                                                                                    found that job dissatisfaction and job satisfac-
                    organization. Believe it or not, you can create a                                                                                  tion are not related. The factors that lead to
                    better workplace for your Airmen.                                                                                                  dissatisfaction are not the same as those that
                                                                                                                                                       lead to satisfaction.
                       At the bare basics, think about what people
                    need and want from a job. Abraham Maslow’s                                                                                            Hygiene factors leading to job dissatisfaction
                    book, “A Theory of Human Motivation,” tells us                                                                                     are: policy and administration, supervision,
                    that each person has a hierarchy of needs: physi-                                                                                  relationship with supervisor, work conditions,
                    ological, security, belongingness, esteem and                                                                                      salary, relationship with peers, personal life,
                    ultimately self-actualization needs. Money is a                                                                                    relationship with subordinates, status and
                    prime motivator to work, but job satisfaction re-                                                                                  security.
                    quires much more. It requires a job that creates
                    belongingness, esteem and self-actualization. It                                                                                      Motivator factors leading to job satisfaction
                    requires opportunities for growth, advancement                                                                                     are: achievement, recognition, the work itself,
                    and achievement.                                                                                                                   responsibility, advancement and growth.

                       This is where you, the leader, come into play.                                                                                     While these lists certainly aren’t all-inclusive,
                    A primary goal of leadership is to influence the                                                                                   it points out a very important concept: keeping
                    performance of followers to accomplish a goal.                                                                                     “hygiene factors” in check is important to keep
                    That’s easy to say, but putting it into practice can be convoluted and confus-                                                     people from becoming dissatisfied, but you will
                    ing. Performance is the product of ability and effort. If the ability is low, it is     not create satisfaction and motivation by focusing all of your attention there.
                    unlikely any amount of effort will result in high performance. Likewise, if the         People find true job satisfaction when their need for self-actualization is ful-
                    effort is low, high performance is doubtful. If your team’s performance is low,         filled – when you provide them with opportunities that lead to achievement,
                    you must ask which area is lacking: ability or effort. We assume your people            recognition, increased responsibility, advancement and growth.
                    are properly trained so the question becomes, “How do I influence my people                Creating genuine opportunities takes intentional planning. In my career
                    to put in more effort?”                                                                 field, missile operations, I found that a good place to start is by changing the
                                                                                                            way authority is delegated.
                       Everyone has personal goals and every organization has goals for mission                Some of my crew commanders have taken care of the “commander roles” such
                    success. To influence people to put in more effort, one approach is to align            as delivering the mission planning brief, making tactical decisions in simula-
                    people’s personal goals with the goals of the organization. If your organizational      tor training and taking care of the administrative duties. That left me feeling
                    goal is to complete paperwork with zero errors, and you have an Airman whose
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