What do you
think is the biggest problem facing today's teenagers? Lots of parents think that
it's drugs, but they are wrong. Interesting feelings have come out of a survey
conducted by Get Connected, -a telephone helpline for young people. Nothing, it
seems, can be worse than falling out with your best friends.
Spokesperson said
that young people rely on their friends to talk through any problems they may
have. If they fall out with their friends, then there is no one, and this can
seriously affect their mental health.
People today
rely less and less on large family groups, and more and more on friends. Having
a close group of people to depend on seems more attractive and more put in than
one relationship with one other person, which can be devastating if it goes
wrong.
People enter the
name of their school on the computer and they suddenly can access lots of
people from their class, even if it is a class from thirty or forty years
previously.
Members can contact one another by e-mail, view old
school photos, contribute to a chat room, and organize reunions. It seems that
the pull of old friendship is enormous, especially as people now rarely return
to live in the places where they grew up.
And how important are friends for you?