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  • What, specifically, are you disgusted about?
  • You're looking at a small fraction of kids your age. Maybe they tend to be bad where you are. Take it from an old guy: yours is the best generation so far. Mine really was selfish and the next one was too conservative, albeit better. Yours is fine.
  • I'm 15, as well and I am all with you on this. Of course it's not everybody, it never is. But looking at things generally..disrespectful teens that have no sense of right priorities. I'm all with you
  • heck yes. hate how every teenager thinks that the media has the right idea about how to act, talk and behave and then adapt that to them. what ever happened to being yourself? but the thing that bugs me the most is how women are getting treated now days. after everything they do, i mean they're so kind and loving to everyone, and they just get treated like trash. i hate it!
  • Luckily your generation isn't going to be doing anything significant for quite awhile longer. Still pleanty of time to grow up.
  • I am 17 and our generation isnt much better. Hell, I think people who like us who are disgusted are the ones who are the only ones who can change the way we do things. Show that we are different and care and stuff. I mean it has to do alot with parenting and also what is out there in the world like on tv there is alot of violence, drugs, sex and etc...
  • Honey, let's just say that I'm a bit older than you are and I'm just as disgusted with my own generation. If that helps you any...
  • It depends on what exactly you are disgusted about.
  • i feel like our generation lacks a general sense of compassion and courtesy, in addition to foresight. You are not alone in thinking this, I very much agree.
  • i'm with you on that one. there's a lack of respect and integrity among the younger generations. I'm 20, i'm so repulsed by the people I meet in college. But hey, it's college I suppose that's how it's been for a while. I'm more disturbed about how people as young as middle schoolers dress and act similarly to what you see on MTV and other entertainment media they're exposed to and the peer pressure they have to live up to that ridiculous social standard.
  • I agree. Most people, esp. younger women, in my generation today lack intelligence and are leading themselves to self-destruction. I hate most people in my generation.
  • i feel the same way! i hate how people are always being labeled for anything they do, or what they look like dress like ect. its pathetic. its mostly this generation too! why is that?
  • I am also 15. I really don't have much in common with the other 15 year olds at school. I agree with you.
  • Whilst there are still nice young people like you around there is still hope :o)
  • Sounds like you may be the voice of change!! Kudo's to you. It takes someone exactly like you to take notice & make change. For such a young age, that is a very wise perception of you to notice the negative direction of your generation!
  • Well I'm 20 and in a completely different part of life than you right now, but I think that technically we're considered part of the same "generation," though I'm not 100% sure... Anyhow, yes, I'm disgusted by today's teenagers, and I have been ever since I was one. I don't think it's just our generation though - there has been some issue with every generation of teenagers before us, so it's hard to say what's worst. Also, you have to consider that most teenagers are just teenagers, and they're all in that developmental category (although a very few end up developing emotionally & mentally more quickly than the others). The problems unique to our generation is in my opinion some of the more disheartening, though: kids being sexualized at such young ages, being given everything that they want without having to work for it, being over-protected by helicopter parents, or else not being disciplined at all... the influences of pop media, the influences of parents. We're materialistic, we're either uneducated or over-achievers, we're apathetic (sort of) and we're rude... not to mention being almost entirely dependant on our electronics. But it's not just this generation of teenagers that is disgusting to me, it's their parents who allow thier children to grow up behaving this way. And the way the parents behave themselves is often disgusting. A person is almost always a product, and thus a direct reflection of, their environment.
  • our society has placed so much emphasis on everyone having self esteeme nomatter what that excelence is no longer valued. that, I believe, is what has degraded the inteligence and morals of our generation. someone who has sex with anyone willing is not a slut because that might make them feel bad. if the shoe fits WEAR IT.
  • Well, I would say that you probably are not alone. There are most likely more people out there that feel this way. What I would like to say is that all you can do is be a better person yourself. If you don't like the way society is headed with this generation, then you need to find change within yourself and rise above everybody else.
  • I feel the same way but im 14
  • I do. I'm 16 and horrified by a lot of other teenagers. Most lack morals, common sense, and the motivation to do things with their lives. My school is very segregatated. It's one of the top 500 schools in the US, and some of the classes are amazing. In highschool, everyone is completely sepatated by intelligence. Except for lunch and in the hallways, I am never near those who everyone here is discussing. It's really nice to be around mature people.
  • im 24 and feel the same way youngsters need 2 wake up and get their lives in order.
  • Yeah, I do. I am 16, and I can't believe what I see when I go outf. Kids our age and a few years younger have no respect, and are using so many drugs its not even funny.
  • I'm 14 and when I see the way some of my classmates treat our teacher, I am shocked. :O Respect your elders. Come on now. I'm embarrassed to be clumped together in this generation along with these idiots. :|
  • 18 and feel the same way.
  • Give a few examples of what disgusts you.
  • I'm not 15, I'm actually old enough to be the parent of a 15 year old. I work in a very large high school, and honestly, I think that the majority of the kids are great. Yes, they still have growing up to do, but that's part of being a kid, you're not a finished product yet. There are some teenagers that I worry about and who are disgusting, but every generation has those. In general though, I see a lot of hard working kids, who have a lot more stress and a lot higher expectations than high schoolers had when I was that age. I think the majority of this generation will be ok when they mature.
  • I agree with you 100%. Ashamed and embarrased, and then people wonder why our world has gone crazy mad!!!! It's like "Hello! Look at yourselves!!!" No, but i totally agree with you. I hate being a 16 year old girl! Everyone always looks down upon you because of other people...
  • Yea our generation has a bunch of screw-ups, doesn't it? Oh well, don't fall into their trapp
  • I agree. your generation kind of blows. Mine wasnt/isnt any better.... Who liked the late 90's anyway? Ravers? lame.
  • 15, too. I cannot tell you how much I see exactly what you mean. - I feel exactly the same way.
  • I am older than you but I felt that way too when I was in high school. I still feel that way about my generation which is a step up. I always felt different about it. Thank goodness you are so smart!
  • yes i do. our generation is so full of people that act half thier age and it angers me so much.
  • I'm 16, I agree with you to quite an extent.
  • im 17 and i agree everyone is talking about sex drugs and drinking those are the last things on my mind i just wanna play football and graduate highschool and get a scholarship for college
  • definatly. i'm 15. the way they go out and get pissed and take drugs and have sex just consontrate on school! X
  • Yes you young ones have a great deal to deal with these days. Do not take your generation on yourself. Just hold your head high and know that you control yourself and not this generation. Sorry about all you have to deal with. Hang in there.
  • im 19..and i agree with you..these people walking around with their butts hanging out looking for the next girl to oogle at..and the girls..ugh..you dont have to be a slut to get attention..put some clothes on..get a brain and stop following the crowd..it upsets me to see so many people that screw it up for the rest of us
  • every generation will feel in the same way and this world is not going to get back to those days of 60's or 70's and these kids are going to get more spoiled. But only thing that i can say with my experience is that every teenager has a craving to try every new thing but one should know the limits to which you can control yourself. Cigarette, wine if tried once can be given up but but drugs will not go so easily.
  • I utterly despise my generation, not the people that much but the whole labeling, clothing "trends", and there attitudes.
  • wow I'm really happy to hear that, from all of you. I'm 20, so I'm a bit past your generation, but I can't believe things I see younger teens do nowadays. It's insane and out of control.
  • I agree. Sometimes I feel like I belong in a different age group but the ones that bother me the most are the little middle school kids (I know of a girl who got pregnant when she was 13 and is now a freshman in high school). It's crazy.
  • I'm 25 and I have a hard time understanding the way that teenagers these days act.
  • yup. like how its cool now for girls to be slutty and bratty and fight a lot and its cool to be a "bad girl".
  • I agree with you, but I am more disgusted with the way adults and the media label all teenagers as theives and yobs (In the UK anyway). The amount of times I get dirty looks in the street or hear 'Bloody Yobos' or 'Teenagers these days...' (I have a bit of an unusual fashion sense compared to others in my area.) It just annoys me that all teenagers are labelled as thugs by the media. We are not all the same.
  • I agree with you, todays generations are becoming less concerned with decent family morals, and more concerned with what brand of jeans they are wearing, or which designer makeup the other girls have. Granted, i dont get much of that where i live, but i see a fair amount of it on the mainland and other places where moms dress like their 15 year old skank daughters and think it makes them "cool."
  • Yes, they've learned to be too materialistic, skanky, nasty, and amoral; but I'm more disgusted with the people and media they learned it from.
  • I'm ashamed as well. I understand that teenagers want to get out and live, and try new things, but there is a mature way to do so. Lowering your values and standards, and abandoning the morals you were raised with, just to get attention is unacceptable and I know that many, many people end up making decisions they regret. I am very thankful for the teenagers who realize that they can have a fun, exciting life full of adventure without drugs, alcohol, immodesty, excessive sexual experiences, and other things similar to the things in the list. You'll never regret doing what's right, and I hope that as time goes on, more and more people come to realize that. It also bothers me how some have the mindset of "our society is screwed anyway, why try to make it better?" Many people have indifference. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of "Night", stated, "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." I feel that our generation doesn't seem to love our nation and society enough. Instead of trying to bring it down, they feel they can take themselves out of the picture and avoid problems by simply not caring. They are horribly confused. We must love everyone and treat everyone with equality. We must be willing to give a hand to anyone, may they be a friend or stranger. We must fight off indifference and become the best people we can be, or the world has failed indeed. I'm 18, by the way.
  • heck yeah, its embarrassing. adults looks down on us now cuz of what teens are doing now, its shameful.
  • Your teen, you shouldn't be worrying about such issues that have no efect, on to where it interfers with you being cool. Just be cool and be a teenager, anxiety will come later..believe me on this one.
  • Thank God we have some sensible kids. Stay on track
  • I actually agree with you... today's kids arent the best... don't worry i think theres more teens out there that think that way too... at least I do!!
  • Yeah, it's awful, it's horrible, oh my aren't we heathens. You're not the only one. Yeah, there's something wrong with this generation (I'm a part of it) but there were problems with EVERY generation. Just relish in the fact that you're better than that, and keep up the good work. Just don't get too big a head.
  • Good Lord there is hope.keep it up young man.
  • I'm older and have lived with the idea that when you start criticizing the younger generation it only proves that you are an old fart but there are several things about the youth pop culture that I don't consider cool. White suburban kids acting as if they were inner city gangsters. They even mimic the ebonics. Whatever happened to being yourself? Also it seems that so many young girls aspire to be "Porn Stars". I see t-shirts and bumper stickers. I don't think prostitution (which is what making pornos is for the most part) will offer the fame and glory that these chics think it will. They might make a few bucks until they discarded.
  • I thought that quite a few of those in my age group were a bunch of idiotic douche bags when I was a teen.
  • Yeah good for you, keep that attitude. I'm sick to see teenager rush for sex, drinking and drug. They think these stuff are cool. This world full of Idiots.
  • i'm with you too. i'm 14 and i'm already hearing about all the embarrassing and disgusting things my peers are doing. and it's not just drugs and sex but also most kids aren't nice to each other. kids are always cutting in line pushing each other and anything else you can think is mean. i also dislike how kids want to grow up and be grown ups so fast by dating and doing drugs when they act like little kids at things that their suppose to be mature about. i mean i can't wait to grow up too but i'm still a kid and want to act like one and be a kid while i still can. i also wonder what all the mean and other kids will do when they grow up and can't just do what they did when they were kids and what kind of person their gonna be. And i'm not curious about what our countries going to be like when my generation takes over the country. hopefully the next generation will improve greatly and fix what we have done.
  • YOU have just restored my faith in the up and coming genre! keep it up!
  • Ashamed, embarrassed, disappointed... most teenagers these days do not have any morals what so ever and its sickening. They're trying to grow up way to fast and making horrible decisions with their lives such as having sex and partying way to young. I just think it's ridiculous. I'm lucky I've found friends who share my same morals and aren't afraid to be "different" and not follow what is "cool".
  • You know what I can agree with you on many levels. But why would you even care about those things. You should be more busy trying to enjoy life! Unlike those teens you loath so much ^_^ Cheer up
  • im with u man
  • I think you are too young to be able to "look back" and judge your generation. Wait some twenty or twenty five years and then you will be able judge how good or bad they have been.
  • YES. I am ashamed of the whole damn human race but this generation in particular.
  • I'm 14 years old... I feel the same way as you do.
  • I used to be, but then I realized most adults have the qualities I dislike as well. So now I just dislike most people. :P
  • I felt the same way when I was 15-years old. I think that it's part of growing up and finding your own identity part from the crowd.
  • Not at all! I am in your generation and I see things we should be proud of, every day! There are so many fantastic people, doing so many fantastic things - not only to further their own lives and ambitions but to help others too. If you write off a whole generation then you just add to the negativity of some of the older generation. Lets focus on the positives and not create a negative self-fulfilling prophecy. There is good and bad in every generation.
  • I'm 14 years old and i agree most of the parts :)
  • I may be a little older than you... by just 4 years, but I do understand how you feel. I feel disgusted and sad that our generation acts like this. They just feel like they need to act like adults and grow up fast. They have sex early(some as much as they can), they drink alcohol, do drugs, drop out of school, act 'rebellious'...etc... it's just immature and shows that they have little intellect.
  • 18 n i agree but only most not all
  • I am no longer a teenager, but still feel embarrassed at the behavior of some of my co-generational humans. I get irritated sometimes, but know that the best I can do is to take a deep breath and carry on with what my conscience tells me. Of course, I also need to find a compromise, since I most often have to settle for less, and have to live with it. So, I have to learn to let go some of my righteousness, and move on.
  • See my previous answer
  • when i was 15 i felt the same way. but i can only imagine how bad it is these days! i'm glad that there are still some young people like you who don't act like everybody else just to fit in. as long as you have a good head on your shoulders you'll be successful.
  • yes I am disgusted that women now act out in the manner they do now a days.. they think nothing of taking their clothes off, for anyone, and anywhere
  • hi i feel the same way.you know i can't answer myslef as well...
  • your not alone honey. I can think of several people that feel the same way. There are so many messed up things about our generation. I think that its a sad sad day when parents are afraid to discipline thier children. When people have to be afraid in thier own homes. I'm afraid to see what our generation is going to do to this world when one of ours comes into office...
  • I can understand this. I grew up on the 60s-70s and I was listening to music from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Back then people were more to themselves and did not BLAST others with loud, noisy, music. Women dressed more modestly. The whole country was shocked over a poster of Farrah! People had values and ethics. No, you are not alone. You are just in a minority. Youth today live by the idea of "this is MY planet" not OUR planet. They have been educated to believe "in your face!" rather than love thy neighbor. They engage in unhealthy activities like listening to loud music and will probably be using a hearing aide by the time they are 30. They have been raised by people who believed in three things - drugs, sex and rock 'n roll. No, you are NOT alone.
  • I work with new college kids and I can clearly see vast differences between my generation ( I'm 31) and yours. For whatever reasons, lack of parenting, all the new communication technology available, society, etc... teens are sexualized like never before. When I was in high school between 1993 and 1996, there were a few sexually active kids. Maybe a dozen or so in our class. Now, a much larger % of high school kids (and even middle school kids) are having sex. It's not just that either. This newest generation is also becoming extremely dependent on others to do things for them. Would you believe that I parents of 21 year old college seniors calling me up insisting that I do this or that for their child? It's not even the student calling me! This is VERY COMMON.
  • I'm not gonna lie to you, you are largely a bunch of cheeky little shits, but you're also an incredibly funny & creative generation too. Try not to worry about it, you're not really any worse than mine (I'm 32).
  • ya the current generation is pretty spoiled. i'm not much older than you (i'm 22) but even when i was growing up things were different. middle schoolers didn't have cell phones; they weren't connected to everybody all the time, and we were certainly a LITTLE less dependent on others. but even people in my generation disgust me; they are ignorant, sheltered, needy children. it's not like the Greatest Generation that came out of the great depression, thats for certain. I personally think that the Hippy generation is somewhat at fault for the degradation of the values of the current generation; they taught their kids nonsense and believed that it was healthier to provide a lot of love and NO restrictions (this was a new fad of parenting in the eighties as well.) overall, though, i like to believe that their are still some good, solid individuals in the world today.
  • im 24 so a bit older than you but i was the same, when i was teen most of my friends were having sex at very early ages and drinking, smoking pot or worse etc. i never did any of that stuff....i didnt think it was right. but we also didnt have cell phones and facebook and stuff like that which i think makes it worse. just hang on to your beliefs, you are not alone. in college you will probably find many just liek you.
  • I am a teacher, and from what I see of teenagers of your age, there is a lot to be proud of! I see some fantastic 15 year olds every day! I am not in a private school, or a grammar school - I work in a bog standard secondary school in an area with mixed financial backgrounds. Be proud of who you are! There are a lot of good teenagers out there too!!!
  • 17 and so am I. But really, there isn't too much difference between generations except new technology. Also, teenagers' brains are still developing, and you know what part isn't full-grown yet? The part that deals with decision making. *sigh* It's a sad fact. Also, few are interesting in learning just to learn, and the rest just try for the easiest option, which many times includes cheating. Lots of grown-ups aren't that different. Try to keep that righteous attitude, dude. It makes a difference and people appreciate it when others see a person who is doing things the way they're supposed to be done and not messing around.
  • I honestly kind of feel bad for your generation. I am 24, and I grew up sort of on computers...but we never had cell phones in middle school and only half of high school once we did. Kids now are so obsessed with their cell phones and video games it's ridiculous! It's so sad to see kids wasting their lives on that kind of stuff when they should be having a REAL childhood ususing their imagination and ACTUALLY experiencing things.
  • The funny thing is once you start having these opinions about "your generation" they are mighty hard to stop. I'm 49 years old - and I too am disgusted with the way my generation is. Don't feel alone - your in good company here.
  • Everyday...
  • Hunny. I am 23 and I hear 50 year old talk about my generation all the time. Then I look at your generation and my sisters 13 and I am just completely shocked. So don't worry you are defiantly not alone.
  • "Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit" (Vergil Aeneid 1.203) Perhaps it will come in time to to laugh at these things.
  • I never blame the kids. It's the influences of the kids that I blame, parents, teachers etc. Kids will respect boundaries, structure, honesty, role models. If they are not in place the poor kids are not to blame, that's why they are called children.
  • Just wait until your generation holds much of the world power; then you will know true disgust. ;) ++++
  • You're definitely not alone, believe me.
  • You're not alone. I just don't agree with what a lot of my classmates are doing.
  • im only a few years older and i feel the same way. So no, your not alone. my generation is the ME generation and most of it sucks ass.
  • I agree.
  • I feel disqusted with my generations. I'm almost 25. The parents of the upcoming generations are caring less about the outcome of their offspring. You are not alone, things will only get worse. Just keep your head up and when the time comes for you, raise your children with strong morals and a strong family oriented background. Love them unconditionally and tell them everyday.
  • You are not responsible for other people in your generation; you are only responsible for you. So ignore what the others are doing and become a leader of your generation, do some good, influence people with your actions and by your example not by telling them what to do.
  • I'm 19, and i strongly agree! People my age just seem to think they are badass gangsters from the mean streets of East LA.. completely disregarding the fact they are small town white boys from middle England...
  • Such a good question. Im 22, And tho Im not discusted, I feel alot of people in my generation, slightly above, and below, are v.shallow. Its all, bitchy, booze, latest things,and lazyness. Just seems not alot too people these days. I find alot of young people dont slow down and notice things, with people , and nature. Dont stop and really think. And if so, dont show it, incase they are seen as sad! Youngsters think there individual, but yet they follow each other in masses. Tho saying so, there are the exception, and of course I have fallen victim to such behaviour myself. I suppose it is easy to get swept up in our society.
  • I am 17. I understand where you're coming from. You are not alone. Our generation has their morals all screwed up. No one can stay single because everyone wants to have a g/f or b/f at the age of 12! No one can stay a virgin anymore because of all the pressure on them to have sex. But I can't say much for the adults that are supposed to help us out, because no one cares enough to help or teach kids how they are supposed to act in this society. Our world is kind of messed up all around.

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