Are Modern Teenagers Really That Weird?

While watching a couple of videos on YouTube today, I happened to glance through some of the comments put on there by supposed fans of the band or show and/or its stars.
And, if I'm completely honest, a lot of what I was reading really quite worried me.
There seems to be an acceptance among teenage girls these days that it is perfectly normal behaviour to completely tear apart anyone that their celebrity crush is dating, living with, engaged or married to. The internet and social networking has made spreading these vile comments as easy as breathing.
The way they talk in these comment boxes and on their Twitters etc. is quite frightening, in my opinion. They talk as if they know the poor woman who is the target of their vitriol, calling her everything from a bitch who is so wrong for their beloved suchandsuch to much, much worse.
Now, when I was a teenager, I had my fair share of celebrity crushes. I would even go so far as to say I was obsessed with a few of them. (Some of my friends and His Nibs might argue I have, in fact, not changed much to this day!)
But even then, at age 13 when I would lie in bed at night dreaming about kissing Marky Morris from The Bluetones with tongues and everything and holding hands with Tim Burgess from The Charlatans, I always knew it was just that - a dream about a teenage crush!
The way some of these kids talk (or write), it is as though they genuinely believe that the object of their desires would be genuinely better off with them and would leave the love of their life the moment they met whichever 14-year-old schoolgirl is so 'in love' with them.
It is as though these girls are unable to distinguish between love and lust, between fantasy and reality. Some of them even seem to pretend to BE the girlfriend of the famous person!
I wouldn't have considered myself particularly advanced for my age when I was a teenager which, in reality, wasn't all THAT long ago (she says, trying to convince herself!). I was heading towards the end of my teenage years a decade ago.
I mean, I was no dummy, I believe I was pretty intelligent and my parents had raised me to know what was right and wrong.
They had also raised me to have common sense and, even more importantly, I put that into practice even in situations I didn't have any previous experience of. I mean, I have always adored my parents and my mum is one of my best friends these days who I can and do tell everything to.
But as a 13-year-old? No way! I figured out things about boys myself!
It is almost as though somewhere during the past ten years, society has decided it is okay for these children to openly slag off and verbally abuse, borderline libel someone they have never even met and never will, because they have 'stolen' the person that child dreams of marrying one day, somehow tricking them into falling for their siren ways.
Does that not strike anybody else as wrong?
It never once, ever, entered my head to have any ill-feeling towards anybody who was in a relationship with my many celebrity crushes and it still doesn't now. Yes, of course you have that surface jealousy and wish you could be in their shoes but common sense and something called a reality check comes into play. I knew I was never going to meet any of these men, who were in many cases a decade or more older than me, and even if I did, there wasn't a chance in Hell of us living happily ever after.
But I was okay with that because I had and still don't have any problems drawing the line between fantasy and reality.
One of the examples I saw today was someone slagging off an actress called Genevieve Cortese.
Her crime? She married Jared Padalecki from Supernatural at the weekend.
I think they've been together for a couple of years now, he had a girlfriend just before her who he was engaged to but they broke up and he then got together with his now wife. She played an evil demon on Supernatural who had a relationship with Jared's character, Sam. (Yes, I am a Supernatural geek! I love that show and can't deny it!)
There were various pubescent teenie girls on YouTube basically posting various apparently 'informed' opinions about this woman and the fact she and Jared got married 'too soon'. They were saying things like they 'didn't like her', she was 'so wrong for him' and making comments about how he would have been much better matched to another actress who once appeared on the show!
One even said that their marriage was 'just wrong as they had only just got engaged' or something!
I mean, how can these kids honestly think that it is normal behaviour to talk about two actors they have never met and never will as though they were someone they had met down the pub?
The bottom line is that a man has married the woman he loves. They have a right to some privacy in their lives and I do not think anybody who doesn't know either of them has a right to air their silly little opinions which, if I were Genevieve or Jared, I would find really hurtful.
To think strangers have such a horrible opinion on you based only on what they have seen in the media or on a television show would devastate me and I'm not an easily upset sort of girl!
A lot of these children, because I truly believe how they behave is childish, will hopefully grow up one day. They simply do not seem to realise and accept that the only reason they have a problem with the woman who is with their 'love' is down to jealousy.
Genevieve played an evil character in Supernatural who had sex scenes with Jared. Therefore the minute she fell for him in real life and he for her, she was always going to be on a hiding to nothing with these so called 'fans' who believe they are Jared Padalecki's one true love.
Honestly, parents, please sit your silly little teenage daughters down and try and make them see sense? Maybe then your child still has a chance to grow up a normal, well-rounded individual with a healthy, loving and real relationship of their own with a non-famous guy!
Because if not, I'm starting to worry that the innocence of a teenage celebrity crush is doomed!
And my message to those silly little girls?
Go out and find yourself a real boyfriend that you can hold hands with and maybe even kiss with tongues. It is a lot more fun than fantasising about someone you will never even meet, trust me!
And get a sodding life!