young people spend their free time in shopping malls. This has a negative effect on young people and society. To what extent do you agree?

Nowadays, shopping malls are considered major recreational spots by many, but people mostly visited them for necessity in the past.

The young

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people are increasingly spending their free

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at the shopping mall rather than playing sports or music.

Furthermore

,

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new trend has many negative impacts on

youngsters

and

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society as a whole.

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essay agrees and believes that

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is undoubtedly an inappropriate behaviour and misuse of leisure

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because it encourages them

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excessive buying behaviour and can lead to isolation and may develop mental illness. One of the significant

harm

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of

this

habit is,

it

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that it

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provokes

youngsters

to buy products which they rarely need. Many shops in malls

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usually

displaying

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eye-catching pictures and mannequins to attract consumers, which

persuade

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the youngster to make unnecessary purchases.

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, recent research by experts found that around 70% of young boys and girls spent their weekends in the clothing store. They found out,

approximately

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50% of them end up purchasing a new fashion trend like tops, dresses and bottoms and

paid

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by their credit cards. Another disadvantage is,

youngsters

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can quickly become withdrawn and isolated. When they start spending not only weekends

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but

weekdays

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free hour in the shopping centre;

as a result

,

youngsters

become less socialized, which negatively

impact

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their physical and mental health.

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conducted by the Indonesia University of Education revealed that adolescent with the habit of shopping spree has over 40% of incidence to develop depression later in life.

To conclude

, I agree that an increasing trend of spending leisure time in the shopping mall by

younger

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generation not only excites them to waste their money

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but

also

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responsible for making them isolated and sick in the future.