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Young people are often influenced by their peers. This is called peer group pressure. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

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Teenagers
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 choices are often influenced by their
friends
. It’s called peer
group
pressure
. But does the influence impacts them in a good way and does it overturn the bad ones? Many young
people
 spend most
their
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 time surrounded by groups of
friends
 who are mostly the same age as them. To be at the
center
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 of attention teenagers
ofthen
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often
 have to do something cool or act recklessly to get approved by their peers, but often they don’t realise that they are
beeing
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being
 pressured to do something against their own will. In my
opinion
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 peer
group
pressure
 is a terrible thing to experience for young
people
 who often think that they should not be different from their
friendgroups
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friend groups
,
therefore
 most of them fall under the
pressure
 and stop acting themselves
Firstly
 we can see that if a young person is in a
group
 full of
people
 who do
things
 which are illegal for their age, it changes the person’s mindset. The teenager starts thinking that if his
friends
 are smoking or drinking, he should be doing that too. If not, he is unpopular and different which can drastically increase the chances of him not getting accepted. To strengthen my previously stated example, it is statistically proven that the
first
 time
people
 try illegal
things
are
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 under the influence
from
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 their
friends
.
Secondly
 to
furthermore
 explain my previously mentioned instance adolescent
people
 are often pressured by
friends
 to do
things
 which are reckless or
things
 that they are scared to do.
For
example
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 asking a girl out on a date. Most of the time the push from
friends
 can be
a
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beneficial thing
,
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 because it boosts
self confidence
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makes
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 a teenager do the
things
 he always wanted to do. But if the activity which is
beeing
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being
 pressured on is dangerous or stupid
for example
 riding a bike with no hands, it can lead to
a
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trauma and many other painful
things
. Undeniably
group
pressure
 can be
good
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 thing for a young person to go
trough
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through
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 because it can make a person do the
things
 he always wanted to do. But it does not outweigh the disadvantages, because teenagers tend to not think on their own and do the
things
 their
friends
 are doing which in most cases is not beneficial to them
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