Many young people spend their free time in shopping malls. This has negative effects both on society and young people. To what extend do you agree or disagree?

In certain countries, it has

becoming

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increasingly common for young people to spend their free time at

shopping

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and

this

is often viewed as a negative. In my opinion, though there

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more productive

movement

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, it should be considered a positive

overall

given the most likely alternatives. Proponents of

this

statement point out that shopping

mall

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are typically not a productive use of one’s second. A person who goes to a

mall

is likely shopping, watching a movie, hanging out idly with friends, eating from a fast food establishment, or engaging in another

similarly

passive activity.

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use of

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could involve playing sports, reading a book, creating art, or working. The rise of

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globally beginning in the 1980s

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a period when younger individuals strayed from healthy exercise and took part in more socially and personally subversive pastimes.

However

, the fears detailed above are overblown compared to other free time activities. These days, most young people who are free spend an outsized proportion of their pace doing truly unhealthy, passive movement. These largely

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around technology and include wasting age on social media, taking pictures, playing online games, chatting online, streaming movies and videos, and using the internet. The

mall

is now actually a better use of one’s age since it likely will involve in-person socializing, precisely the domain

that is

most at risk for younger generations and society today. In conclusion, though

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spent at

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a shopping

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mall

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is not the ideal activity for a younger person, it is preferable to a more passive lifestyle and should

therefore

not be condemned. It is likely,

however

, that

plaza

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will continue to decline in popularity in the future so

this

concern will become less relevant.