There is no doubt that over the years the life of the typical American teenager has changed. I feel it is partly due to the expansion and evolvement of the American society. Technology mostly has broadened our society and I feel teenagers have just adapted to it. I also feel society has basically set the standards for teenage life. They have given us the Internet, thus giving us new opportunities to make money, learn more, and know more about modern technology than the baby boomer generation. You hear the older generations (people 40 and older) disagreeing with how we are living our lives. They think we should be living our teenage years the way they lived theirs; working at the convenience store on the corner, the town diner, or the local gas station, etc. They don't see
Granted a teenager's life isn't all wonderful. Along with the advances in technology, kids' form of rebellion has advanced. Being a teenager myself I cant say that I am proud of living in this category. Now a days all you see on TV is the crimes being committed by teenagers, the drug abuse, the bad things being done; you never see the good things being done by teenagers mainly because the bad gets more notoriety than the good. And because of the advancement in rebellion we can't go back to the good ol' days of the "status-quo". Teenagers have helped contribute to this by committing adult crimes. They have put themselves in the position to be tried in court as an adult. And because of this, society thinks that today's teenagers are growing up too fast. But in actuality, t
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