Today's teenagers have more stressful lives than previous generations.

The adolescence is a tortuous and challenging period of time. Despite the heightened standards of living, some people claim that today’s teenagers are subjected to more pressure than at the past time. Apart from facilitation and advancement of our
life
modern technologies have brought a number of negative consequences. By scrolling through social network pages of famed bloggers, models and successful entrepreneur of the same age as they are, adolescents can feel themselves disenchanted with their accomplishments and appearance.
Furthermore
, since that ostentatious success can
be not even real
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not even be real
, because Instagram posts do not reflect the real
life
of those people, just what they want others to see, it strongly affects teenager’s self-image resulting in depression and anxiety.
However
, I would argue the statement that nowadays teenagers have
more stressful
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a more stressful life
more stressful lives
life
than previous generations, since issues at the time were different and far more serious from my point of view. Even two decades ago a problem of gender inequality and racial discrimination was manifest in comparison to contemporary situation. Taking into consideration that hundred years ago children had to either work from an early age or carry on
family business
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the family business
,
in other words
, having no control over their
life
, problems of modern teenagers, who possess unlimited possibilities, would seem negligible. In conclusion, teenagers have many difficulties in their
life
, everlasting and new ones. In my opinion, current teen issues pale
in
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into
insignificance with the older generation’s problems of a global scale.
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