Do you think that youngsters nowadays – teenagers and young
adults – are absorbed in the “parallel universe” of social media, TV series,
fantasy fiction and video games because they want to escape from the reality of
today’s world?
Read this article by a young Indian teenager who feels it
is easier to ignore the major problems in the world today by turning away from
reality and living in a bubble, because that’s what adults seem to be doing as
well!
http://www.vogue.in/content/confessions-of-a-modern-teenager/
Do you agree with the ideas she expresses? What do YOU think
is the reason that young people like to live in their own “virtual” worlds
instead of in the “real” world?