Peer Pressure Influence

They can motivate us in our dreams, they can be the people go to when we need company or the people to just be there. A lot of us have a need to always do what other people do, we tend to get the latest technology because we see other people around us with it and we want to fit in. We can also want to fit in with the people around so we do similar acts to accomplish to fit in. For example teens experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Peer pressure and wanting to fit in with their peers makes some want to do things that are not always good but it can also be a good thing it just all depends on the people around you. According to Dr. B.J. Casey Teens are more likely to act differently when they are have a friend around vs when they do not have a friend around (Peer Pressure: Its influence on teens and decision making). What I 'm trying …show more content…
Until we reach the age where we get to go to school where teachers and classmates have a big impact on influencing us. According to “Adolescence and the influence of parents” children up to the ages of up to 8-9 love and look up to their parents/guardians, their children basically worships them. So by the time the child reaches adolescence, so the age of 9-13 they no longer worship their parents and are no longer influenced by them. From adolescence and the rest of their lives they are influenced by the people around them (Pickhardt). There may be be some reports and studies where violent video games are to blame for some mass shootings. However there is no evidence or not enough evidence to say that violent video games make people want to start mass shooting and criminal acts. Even though there has been a few shootings in the past years that Violent video games were the things to blame for these incidents. Only because the shooter of the incidents played lots of video games does not mean that video games are the