Meet the Metrolescents

PUT IMAGINE WATCH CALL KIND DIFFERENT -THING MODERN ACCEPT TRIBE TEENAGER TERM DEFINING PAST

   Did you know there ___ tracking devices you could ___ on your teenager's mobile? ___ could put one on ___ phone of my daughter. ___, instead of worrying and ___, you can sit in ___ of your computer and ___ the little dot that ___ your teenager moving around ___ the street diagrams. I ___ this "love", a different ___ of love that parents ___ for teenagers nowadays. Since ___ have a different kind ___ teenager, we need a ___ kind of control. Nowadays ___ seems fair game in ___ campaign against teens. It's ___ surprise, then, that the ___ parents are either terrified ___ teenagers or terrified for ___.

   What we have to ___ is that we might ___ seeing a new breed ___ adolescent, a totally different ___ of teenage tribe. A ___ so different they probably ___ not even be called ___ any more – a better ___ might be Metrolescents, whose ___ characteristic would be, in ___ age of the internet ___ the all-powerful teen media, ___ they are united, bonded, ___ the same web page ___ never before.

   In the ___ kids used to feel left out and they had to make an effort to be part of the action. In the era of the Metrolescent, it is possible to live far away and still feel part of everything. Fashions take seconds to spread, the latest gossip is only a click away. Suddenly, the youth scene is everywhere, for everybody. That might be the problem.

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Have fun....and take care! 249 SEP-2006