Society Killed The Teenager.

We are society. Society didn’t kill the teenager. We did.

We are a generation of teenagers with access to almost anything in the world. We have everything ahead of us, and basically everything handed to us on a silver platter. We are able to find almost any piece of information on the internet, and with Web 2.0 we are able to interact with it with comments, sharing and an opinion.

These comments and opinions are the new society.
People have problems, and these are sometimes triggered by the fact that people find it acceptable to intrude in their lives; leaving comments of malice and general hatred.

People say that “Society killed the teenager”, but they don’t do anything to stop it. They call people fat and throw hateful words around as though they are fashionable and don’t have consequences, and when the consequences arise they deny it. They pass it as the demons of society, when in fact we are the demons. We are the people who hate; we are the people who fight, and we are the people feel that it is ok to go on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and judge someone for the way that they express themselves.

We wonder why people feel the need to self-harm, we criticise those who have serious issues such as eating disorders; and yet we are doing nothing to help them. We are not telling these people that it is ok to feel a little down every now and then, we are not telling people that we are here for them and that there is always someone to talk to. Someone cares; whether it is your family, your friends, your colleagues or your teachers.

Much like serious issues as those mentioned above, our society is becoming a problem, and the first step of recovery is to admit this. Stop hiding behind words that are making excuses for what is happening to our world. The fighting, the hatred and the problems aren’t ever going to go away.
We are society. And we are killing ourselves.