To think teen girls get "nana" old before their time?

[sadsac1]

I follow a few accounts on You Tube and Instagram- mainly for their foodie posts etc - but these girls are 18-21 mainly (the big bloggers) and act so differently to my and my friends at that age.

When I was that age, Saturday's were about shopping, maybe grabbing a McDonald's or something similarly unhealthy in town and most importantly getting dressed up and going out for a good dance and to be honest, drinks and snogging!

Most of these girls do video logs where their day is either the gym and then tea and cake followed by a night in watching a box set or reading with a green tea and some peanut butter before meditation before bed at ten.

Now before you flame me, I know this is healthier and great habits for later in life but I can't help but feel your young days are for letting your hair down a bit...but then I think social
Media is their social life so that's probably something to do with it...

Hi @sadsac1 I sometimes do wonder about their lives being so different to how mine was at their age but then I think about the friend I had at that age that did what they do now. We also have to remember that only what they want to be shown is shown, so that their younger audiences don't get influenced. I've read they only film maybe an hour of their day and then they condense that. So even though we don't see them going out and having a dance doesn't mean they don't x

There IS a middle ground between staying in every night sipping herbal tea and puking in a gutter! It's lovely to be healthy and sensible, but I agree with agree pp about teens now being SO concerned with not making a tit of themselves that it's a little unhealthy.

It's the fact that some of us made utter tits of ourselves that makes us resilient and, as I said before, empathetic.
I think the alchohol issue is really a bit of a red herring.

Do those that think life isn't fun without alcohol honesty believe that those religions that don't drink, can't have fun? I'm tee-total, at present, because of health reasons, but I still go to pubs.

I didn't drink until my late 30's, after being Widowed. It just didn't interest me when I was younger. I had some great times, but I would have been doing more of a day, if I hadn't have been going out, so it wouldn't have been boring. That's down to the type of person that you are.

Drugs have changed and the cities are flooded with them. When everyone was on old style ecstasy, it was a love fest, now it's a hate fest. I can't open my local paper without another murder of a under 25, on a night out and this is practically daily.

I think that threat of violence has made people think twice about being out of control in Pubs/Clubs.

The social anxiety increase needs addressing and i do think that is driven by Social Media, though.

I think it's a good thing that Teens don't have to drink to fit in, anymore. There's more tolerance of different lifestyles and choices.

I think money plays a massive part in this, bit hard to drink yourself to oblivion if you've got a £5 in your name. But that will get you a nice tea or hot chocolate or something so there's that as well.

As a foreigner, I find the British obsession with drinking a bit baffling, but I drink very little in general so it will.

Also...this thread is just another way of pressuring teenage girls! Why mention girls specifically.

Leave them the fuck alone to do as they wish.

Yes I am pressurising teenage girls. Get a grip. What a dramatic over reaction.