Friends are the most important influence on young adults. Agree Disagree? |
Human beings are social animanls so they interact each other for a life time. In perticular, I believe that young adults are very vulnerable to their surroundings. Therefore, especially friends are the most influential factors on their creation of personality and personal values.
First, young adults are more open to their peer groups than their parents or teachers. For example, because I have taught English to young adults for many years, I have observed their tendency towards friends as a counselor several times when they are faced with difficulties. When teachers or parents give some advice to them in the same situation, in general, they are more likely to regard parents and theachers as different people, not paying appropriate attention to their advice. However, when they had the same advice from their friends, they consider it strong enough to change their attitude towards something because they believe that their friends know the situation better than parents and teachers.
Second, friends have more influence on young adults because they have more time to spend with friends than parents or teachers. In our modern society, people spend less and less time with their families. On the other hand, young adults have relatively more time to be with their friends such as in school and other orgainiztions. As a result, they are more likely to be influenced by their friends and peer groups than others. Therefore, the more increased interaction they have with their friends, the more likely they are to share certain attitudes, ideology, personal identitity and so on.
To sum up, it is inevitable that people interact with each other. In particular, young adults are not full-fledged members of society and they are still on the stage of development. Therefore, it is natural that they have a kind of fear to the society. This results in their strong proclivity of depending on their friends because they think their friends can understand the difficult situations more clearly and can give some useful information they want. |