Many young teenagers begin to date at a much earlier age. Many of them meet a boy or girl whom they like and begin to form a much closer relationship. However, most teenage relationships often do not work and both or one person gets hurt and often depressed. Today many relationships begin to form online. Many teenagers use the internet to connect with friends in social network sites, but now more than half of the teenage population in the United States are using social networking sites to connect and meet their special someone online. The video Adolescent and online dating state that online dating is a new effective way to form a closer relationship and met someone new. Online dating is effective because it gives teenagers an opportunity to …show more content…
This can be some of the few positive advantages of online dating, however, there are also some disadvantages. Many people that use online dating can fake an identity and often pretend there someone who they are not in real life. Many predators use this sort of online dating sites to hurt teenagers or take advantage of them and that can generate a problem. On the other hand, the video called Teen Dating shows how a group of teenagers give out their opinion about what they think about teenagers dating. For instance, some teenagers said that teenage dating is great because love is beautiful when two young crazy teenagers love each other intensely. Others, however, thought that dating at a young age was not good because it prevents teenagers to fully focus in school and most teenagers are not mature enough to form a serious …show more content…
She commented that she did not have a group of friends, but she did have a friend that she trusted and was really close to. She could talk about any problems and her friend was always their supporting and listening to her. Next, she talked about her peer pressures and tells a story about a time where her best friend pressured and made her do something she did not want to do. She remembers that her best friend made her try drugs. In the beginning, she was really scared and was sure that she did not want to try anything or make a decision that later on she was going to regret. Her best friend kept pushing her and telling her to not feel scared and do actually do it, at the end the person I interviewed was convinced and decided to try it. Know reflecting and remembering about the decision that she made she says that she is never going to try any drugs or alcohol ever again. Laura Beck acknowledges that in order to make a good decision teenagers start off by identifying the pros and cons of that choice before making the right decision (Beck 573).
Then, I asked Janet if she was bullied during middle school or high school. She says that luckily she was never bullied. She was well accepted by her peers and never had a problem with anyone. From my high school experience, another similarity that I and my classmate have in common is that both of us felt comfortable having one best
...s how great it felt being high. Later on she writes about how easily she became addicted to the drugs and how hard it was for her to stop using them. She writes about how running away and cutting her ties with all her drug user friends didn't help her stop. It also taught me the extent of what drugs can do to you by her getting so high to the point of imagining maggots eating at her body.
Her friends always asked her for help doing some things, good and bad, but she did her best to stay away from that kind of things. Like on page 106 in the novel when her friend Heather says “When you get through a life sucks phase, I’m sure lots of people will want to be your friend. But you just can’t cut classes or not show up to school. What’s next-- hanging out with the dopers?” and Melinda replies “Is this the part where you try to be nice to me?” and Heather replies “You just have a reputation.” This shows how negative peer pressure affects people, like how Heather thinks that she will end up hanging out with druggies, because she has already been pressured into skipping school and class. Andy Evans, the guy who raped her, always put himself around her, almost as peer pressure to not tell anyone, because he knew he could overpower her and that he was intimidating to her. Although Melinda had gone through a lot in her first year of high school, peer pressure had affected her, and she tried to seem invisible to everyone, until she finally figured out where she belonged and who she was, then exposing Andy Evans which allowed everyone
She had insecurities about her adoption. She was bullied in school and started hanging out with the wrong group of people. Those people prompted her to steal which later lead to marijuana. Then her parents got divorced. She did not have a stable living situation and then she was physically abused.
When you were younger, did your parents and teachers always encourage you to express yourself and that it’s okay to be different? Not a lot of people seem to realize it, but as children grow up, the amount of pressure to blend in grows, too. In schools all over the U.S., innocent students get ridiculed just because they are unique and stand out from the crowd. In the book, “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character, Melinda experiences something similar to this type of bullying, otherwise known as peer pressure. Melinda was just a normal girl who loved her friends, until the night she attended a summer party where alcohol was being served. Her friends were all drinking, so Melinda thought she was supposed to as well, and a senior
...Five percent of Americans who are in a marriage or a committed relationship say they met their significant other online” (2). The reality of how relationships are started is through the traditional methods of meeting people offline. People like to meet others through introductions and referrals because it provides a sense of security. Due to the direction that society is headed, we are seeing more and more technological advances. These new advances are giving people the freedom to meet and integrate with others in the society in a safe fashion. However, we know that technology is not one-hundred percent safe proof. Because technology is not completely safe and is not always accurate individuals must use common sense to determine when a situation is not being used properly. Online dating sites through the technological advances are getting lots of recognition.
According to the mother of the rebellious teenager in the story, the teenager relished doing negligent things, ‘She “liked the excitement” of being with the bad kids, starting cutting school and, one night in a house where the parents weren’t home, she had sex, at age fourteen, and got caught’ (Strauch Page Number 34) . As we can discern, the teenager was behaving in a recalcitrant and unruly matter; therefore, the mother was bewildered, and asks another mother for advice. Then decides to have authority over her teenager :‘”So i asked a wise friend who said that sometimes you simple have to be the parent. So we told her that changed her friends, she had to change her school. I think she wanted someone, some adult, to tell her to just stop. And it worked. She joined the lacrosse team and the high school swim team where she was elected captain. Her grades went back up and she was back to herself again”’ (Strauch Page Number
For many college students a relationship isn’t real until they have announced it on Facebook. Users are allowed to let a connected network of friends follow the status of their breakups, engagements, weddings and even sexual conquests. The social network is fast becoming a digital “Dating Game”, with the ability to see other profiles and matchup likes and dislikes to their own. David Gewirtz publisher of “Facebook – leading worldwide social networking site” suggests that “young students begin using social networks when they want to date…those not in the dating circle are not as active and those that are, want to show off and meet more people”(Adam). Facebook has a mix ...
During the time period where she was using heroin and having pointless sex with her partner at the time made me feel conflicted, due to this particular decision making me feel confused as to why she was doing this but at the same time feeling sorry for her due to this being her initial way of dealing with everything currently happening in her life. Reading about the authors drug use and thinking about how her downwards journey began made me think about how drugs and alcohol affect people my age and the reason why the start to use it. A Lot of troubled teenagers tend to go to drugs and alcohol as a way of escaping their harsh lives which often consists of abuse and neglect. The authors experience with drugs reminded me of some teenagers who go through drug abuse because both the author and teenagers who do drugs take drugs for the same reason, which is for a way to escape their harsh
Pressure from the people she once called a friend, who she had once pushed drugs on, turn on her, trying to draw her back to the dark side. Her emotions rang from her hatred to drugs “It simply isn’t worth it! Every day for the rest of my life I shall dread weakening again and becoming something I simply do not want to become” (121), to her love of them “And I’m glad I’m back. Glad! Glad!
Her attitude toward people who were manipulated by her as a “Chumps” is very notable. She stated that they deserve to be her victim because they are stupid. Although she feels that way about these people, she has an extreme reaction by crying for a week for an incident in her dorm for another student. However, she just wants to talk about herself and her own pain and not even talking about anything else and has become very self-observed in the last session while she was 20 minutes late. On the other hand, She had a fight with her roommate in which the Campus Police got involved, because her roommate borrowed a scarf that she got from her mother. Also, she doesn’t know who she is and she feels that several different people are in her body. She believes that cutting, which makes her to calm down, is better than drinking because it doesn’t affect her grade, while she thinks she has ADHD and asks for medication such as
With technology advances steadily in today’s society, individuals steadily advance too. One of these aspects includes dating. Individuals in today’s society hope to find companionship through online dating websites so that someday some online daters might be able to find a companion. With websites like eHarmony, Match, Christian Mingle, OkCupid, Black People Meet, and JDate, finding the one seems to be easier and more convenient than ever. Most of these websites even display statistics showing that one out of five relationships start online. The questions that should be asked, is this a better and safer option than looking for the one in person? Individuals tend to ignore the possible risks involving online dating. They are willing to release personal information from pictures of oneself, to locations of where they work, or live just for the possibility of finding a companion. The online users have to ask themselves: is the risk worth it in the end, or does the benefit outweighs the cost? When searching for a companionship through online dating websites, negative aspects such as profiles, self-presentation, self-disclosure, predators and sexual mishaps, may outweigh the positive aspects and cause more problems and strife then actual good.
Online Dating Many people have different opinions about online dating. Some people like it while others find it useless and dangerous. Throughout the years, more and more people are beginning to use online dating however, majority of people still believe online dating is a bad thing. One of the big problems caused by online dating is that the success rates are very low and the crime rates are slowly rising.
There are many positive sides to forming relationships via the internet. Online communities may offer a safe environment for the user to feel welcome and among peers due to commonalities between themselves. Using the internet to form relationships may benefit the user by providing mental stimulation, an increase in self esteem due to receiving praise from others, and by comparing oneself to others (Zywica & Danowski, 2008, p.8).
This paper will provide evidence and use of online dating, and show the effects on psychological, safety and social aspects.
The writer started the article by showing her own opinion clearly about the long distance relationships through the dating websites “I have doubts about a long-distance relationship that started through a dating site. ”[3]. Then she started to give an example of a relationship via the Internet.... ... middle of paper ... ...