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It s fair to say that the youth of today is, to put it so eloquently, fucked. Current Affair shows witter on aimlessly about teenagers carrying out anti-social behaviour on a weekly basis, Facebook groups are made explicitly to show illicit photos of girls and boys doing ridiculous things under the influence of God-Knows-What at Schoolies, and parties are more of a hot-bed us rent a car las vegas of sex, underage drinking and substance abuse than ever before. Parents and overly-PC adults look down on them and shake their head, wondering why they can t grow up just like they did in the 70 s and 80 s. 18-24 s like myself look down on them and shake their head, despite the fact that they know they were exactly the same just a few years ago. Regardless, the kids continue to stumble through life, preaching YOLO and giving precisely zero fucks about the rest of us. I say good luck to them. Quite frankly I m in no position to judge, apart from letting us rent a car las vegas off a passive-aggressive tut every now and then.
Most people blame the media for this behaviour. Problems like eating disorders and the sexualisation of these kids are immediately attributed to gossip magazines and TV Shows, and that s all very well. That lays with the adults though, and the solution basically lies in not letting your kids either watch Geordie Shore at the age of 10, or read Cosmo, where they learn that putting toothpaste on your private parts will result in pleasure rather than complete genital trauma. FIY, don t do this. Of course, that being said, a girl isn t going to immediately see a picture of a half-naked Harry Styles in a magazine and immediately grow up to become a raging us rent a car las vegas whore either. It s all about surroundings. Kids today network more than ever before, multiple-times more so than when I was growing up, and I m only 20. Obviously it s within this freedom of communication that the problem exists, and I think I may have found the perfect example.
I played Habbo growing up like everyone us rent a car las vegas else. Much to the disdain of my parents, I d finish burning through my pre-paid phone credit to get Habbo Credits, blow it all on pixelated room fittings, then proceed to insult some innocent bystanders and maybe find myself a cute virtual girlfriend, all in time to cap the evening off with a quick game of Falling Furni. us rent a car las vegas All in all, it was a fairly innocent place. To my memory most of the game s busiest rooms were the public nightclubs and parks. Obviously there were arguments amongst kids who were happy to have the freedom to say what they wanted on the internet, but nothing that most people today would label as Cyber-Bullying (Mostly it was children yelling the word Bobba at one another). It sounds strange to say seeing how this was only a decade ago, but realistically technology wasn t as advanced back then, and aside from MSN or Runescape this kind of social networking was completely unheard of. Bare in mind that this is during a time where a lot of people were only just making the transition to DVD. Alas, after seeing one of the aforementioned Schoolies groups on Facebook and in the wake of my game of GTA V freezing mid-cutscene, I decided to log back in and see what s changed. Are the tweens of today as corrupt as the youth we ve grown to disdain so much? The things I found were shocking to say the least.
Living conditions us rent a car las vegas in the Habbo Hotel of old were somewhere between the level of Survivorman and 2013 Damascus. Sure the amenities through the rest of the hotel were great, but good luck if (heaven forbid) you were new to the game wanted to retreat and wanted to retreat to the sanctity of your suite for a little R R. Instead of all the basics you d find in say, a North Korean forced labour camp, you were given a bare-ass 5 5 room, a stool (colour chosen for you), and sent on your merry way to basically us rent a car las vegas figure out a way to turn your room into something as shiny and distastefully colourful as possible. Habbo gives you a lot more to play with now. Rooms are more interactive, as are games and activities within the hotel. You get more clothing options, a bigger room filled with more stuff to start off with, I mean shit. You can even change the colour of your chat bubble. However, it s clear that all of this has come with a significant us rent a car las vegas price to pay in terms of development, and the company has had only one direction to head in
As soon as you log on, you are slapped in the face with a billion ads for random products. It s apparent that the developers have well and truly turned their attention towards money-making over all else, and quite frankly who could blame them? But when it comes to the creation of an area designed like a beach, with shelves of skincare products stuck in the sand, you have to start asking questions.
Logging into Habbo now is something akin to stepping into a game based on the Ad-Breaks between episodes of  iCarly , which is ironic because Nickelodeon actually sponsors one of the game s public rooms. Furniture releases us rent a car las vegas and new rooms are constantly made to promote whatever new Clearasil Product/Bubblegum Pop record is next to assault the mindset of the general us rent a car las vegas public with it s presence, and celebrities us rent a car las vegas will regularly log in as guests us rent a car las vegas to promote their newest shit. Nearly us rent a car las vegas anywhere us rent a car las vegas the Hotel actually wants its users to go, you ll find ads.
The term ASL has lost its meaning, ladies and gentlemen. I don t know whether Habbo has shrunk to the extent that they no longer need to keep a different hotel for individual countries like they used to, or they just went power mad and decided to make one huge virtual real-estate conglomerate, but the result is pretty staggering. Habbo now registers 10 Million UNIQUE views per month, holds a top 50,000 Alexa Ranking and has registered over 230 Million users since it s opening. Inside one of the hotels, it s not uncommon to have a conversation with someone from the other side of the world, or seeing people openly speaking in Spanish or French. Generally this kind of multiculturalism is encouraging to see, but somehow in Habbo s case it has basically us rent a car las vegas become a mixing pot for the worst of all cultures. You know the reputation English teenage girls have for being awfully skanky? Or American us rent a car las vegas teenagers for being basically brain dead? Logging into Habbo, you truly get to grasp where these ideas came from. Every stereotype of every teenage subculture is fulfilled and shamelessly promoted by a generation that has become increasingly desperate to present themselves as interesting to a bunch of people they don t know and will never meet.
Habbo and it s users was once firmly under the control of the Moderators and Sulake (the game s creator), so much so that becoming a mod of the game was once held as one of the greatest honours you could possibly get while playing. The majority of the public rooms such as the hotel s clubs, bars and the swimming pool were more often than not the busiest rooms in the hotel. Early 2000 s internet connections struggled nationwide us rent a car las vegas to keep up with a game that even now proves a match for my battle-weary MacBook. I mentioned earlier the effect advertising has had on the game, and it s apparent that the users have since taken note, and proceeded to flip a communal bird at whoever s responsible. Public rooms are now all but bare, none of the rooms that were there this time 6 or 7 years ago even exist anymore, and the users have found ways to make their own private rooms even better and more interactive than the game s developers apparently ever could.
Let me just show you something quickly. Remember the days when the busiest room in Habbo Hotel was owned by whoever had the monopoly over Falling Furniture or Golden Thrones at the time? Not anymore.
Things to note here: NEW TEENS PARTY LOVE 24/7; Gay, Bi, Les Tran Wonderland; Take Me Out!! 3 3 3; +18; etc. etc.. Keep in mind this is all on the front page of the navigator when you first click on it, before you decide to explore a bit. Let s take the Friends section, which reads a more like the personals section of a Local Newspaper than anything.
For some reason, these kids are intent on proving that they re grown up enough us rent a car las vegas to not only to hang around with equally delusional teenagers posing as adults, but also to have convinced themselves that portraying yourself as a transvestite is apparently the way to go.
Now I m going to be fair here. Obviously we all thought we were the best thing since sliced bread while we were their age as well. I ll be the first to admit. In the world of Habbo growing up, I had more girlfriends than Hugh Hefner and more wives than Henry VIII. If my Habbo character had a real life persona, it would probably be somewhere along the lines of Hank Moody. That s just how kids entertained themselves us rent a car las vegas back then and, for the socially awkward, basically learned how to deal with those kinds of social situations. It s sure as hell easier to lose yourself talking to someone online who shows every sign of being a cute girl without actually seeing her, than it is to go up to your real-life crush and strike us rent a car las vegas up a conversation. Of course you see this nowadays as well. That aspect of the game hasn t changed, and I was pretty amused to watch a kid stand in 1 spot repeating in bold letters anyone wanna be my girlfriend??? for half an hour. He s probably still doing it now, ready to wife/honeymoon whoever takes pity on him next. Whatever, that s just harmless fun. What worries me though, is when you see this kind of stuff.
I ll be fair, the last one made me laugh, but there s a definite sexualisation of kids that exists online that certainly wasn t present before. Just last year, a reporter from England us rent a car las vegas logged on and was immediately exposed to chats containing us rent a car las vegas material which she regarded as sexual, perverse, pornographic and violent . As a result, Habbo lost 2 major investors, and was forced to completely shut it s chat service for a week while they got their shit together. I got talking to a girl on there who claimed to be 18 years old and from America, and it s clear