Challenges Faced by Young People Today and Media's Influence on Body Image

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1. What three major problems do you think young people face in today’s life?
2. How does the media influence what we see when we look up in the mirror?
Analyzing question one
In the society today seventy percent is made up of the youths and the growing people.
These people face a lot of challenges in today’s life such as too much of screen times, depression
and suicide, alcohol and drug abuse and peer pressure. The purpose of investigating these
questions is as when youths grow they tend to be increasingly self-reliant and are probably to
encounter more compound issues and problems (Schwartzman 56). This question is fundamental
to me because as a youth we see how these problems bring a lot of effects to our daily life and as
we discuss them and consider the primary concern we are likely to solve them. This question
affects the youth, parents, teacher and the society at large.
Teenagers addicted on the internet tend to miss essential opportunity for the development
of interpersonal skills as well as building close and firm relationships since they have no time
with others and also this internet have darker sides such as bullying, sexual predators and
pornography sites which youth tend to follow and are not helpful to them. Peer pressure is what
leads to the use of alcohol and drugs and also crimes because youth tend to fit in these groups.
Those that are not accepted tend to be depressed and also leads to suicide acts which will affect
the people who lived with them; they see they are inferior and stupid in all they are doing. The