In today's world the media plays a huge role on teenagers. The media always reflects on the younger people then the older people because there are more teenage audiences. Media is involved with a lot of situations that teenagers are drawn to. Some of these situations can be sex and drugs. Sex can play a big part on a teenager's life because teens nowadays start experimenting early. Many teens are parents by the age of fourteen. When sex becomes part of the media, kids learn more about it. Most television shows out there relate to sex, but it seems that the teenagers actually watch more than the adults. When sex becomes part of television it can become active in a teenagers mind. Knowing that everybody is doing sex more and more teens are doing it. But what they do not know will hurt them if they do not use protection.
Many teenagers are drawn to the media in many ways. Some of the magazines that are out now reflect more on teenage life. In magazines, you will find a lot of model teens dressed in expensive clothing. Seeing that makes teenagers want to spend all their money on clothes or objects that they cannot afford to buy. When teenagers do this they end up spending all the money that they cannot afford to spend, but in the long run they want the money back. When they go to there parents asking for money the parents will probably turn their back to them because it is not their responsibility.
Media has a huge effect on the average teenager. Teens are under a lot of pressure these days because everybody wants to dress a certain way and have fun. When it comes to work teenagers seem to put more stress on themselves. Today stress can play a big part on a teenager's life because the media allows it to get that way. Usually, teens work their way through school and have more responsibilities. When you become an adult faster you can lose that teenager feeling. Some teens out there today take care of their siblings alone and even work...