Accelerated technology development at a pace follows the development of the Internet and its capabilities. Statistics show that the Internet is becoming more and more accessible in every corner of the Earth and offers more and more services to an increasing number of users. Its advantages are numerous, just as the negative side affects the most vulnerable groups of society. In recent years there have been apearing more and more indicators of risk behavior on the Internet, so experts are carrying out more risk-related research in the virtual environment. The aim of the research was to examine the relationship between sexting and image of young people in the Republic of Croatia in the virtual environment. Within the aforementioned objective, two of the above mentioned constructs and differences in age, sex and sexual orientation of the young were studied. The survey was conducted among young people aged 18 to 30, active users of Facebook's social network. The results have shown that there is no significant correlation between the two constructs. Significant differences in gender and the sexual orientation of respondets towords sexting have been shown.