The Media Negatively Influences Today’s Teenagers

Does the media has negatively influences today’s teenagers? My answer to it is yes. Today’s society is flooded with all kinds of media. Newspaper, advertisements, radio, television, and Internet have become a part of our daily lives. With marketing competitions and less control of information broadcasted, teenagers are exposed in the unhealthy media contain violence, sexual material and false information. The media affects their values, their attitudes, and their behaviors. One example is …

…often appears in the media. Those ideas enhance teenagers’ desires to try and to accept those behaviors. More than often, we saw a group of teenagers gathering at the corner of street smoking. How many times we heard a new about teenager drunk and drive causing a fatal car accident. In conclusion, I truly believe that today’s media are changing teenagers-changing their values, attitudes, and behaviors. It has done teenagers more harms than goods.