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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
Most people spend too much time online, or out drunk with friends.
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I don't think any of these things are inherently bad, it's more of how they fit into lifestyles generally. There's nothing wrong with teenage drinking for example - there are plenty of "good" kids who get drunk with their friends but generally act within sane boundaries, don't bother other people, etc. I think surveys have shown that alcohol use in girls is often higher in families with higher incomes - and indeed most of the middle class girls I know (who get good exam results, etc) are quite heavy drinkers.
I'd say one of the worst things about being a kid in this country is the huge pressures imposed by marketing (in the widest possible sense - not just advertisements per se). Not just to buy the latest fad but a more general pressure to be living in a certain kind of way (of which sex and money play a huge part). When you get older it's easier to see it's all bollocks but I remember feeling utterly gutted at times because I couldn't afford some random product or other. And then older children have to deal with the fairly horrific effects of body/lifestyle fascism. No wonder we have more mental illnesses than in other countries.
And that's without even starting on our criminally poor education system...