why do so many teens want to be vampires today.?
91410
Because it is exciting and different. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be something that others think is wrong. I would love to be a witch--like those on Harry Potter and attend such a school. It is different and inspiring. Let teens be inspired and guide them. Remember there are good vampires as well as bad ones.
738609
I am currently speaking to the youth officer in my sons school because apparently there is a child in his school that is either a practicing Vampire or Cannibal?  (Not sure yet)\n\nHe enjoys biting people to see what they taste like and apparently "some people taste sweet and some salty..."  THis kid is dangerous and rather mental if you ask me!  and I am certain it is from either unspuervised video games or television?\n\nMedia and MTV and television in general are really doing in today's kids.  but what are you going to do?  It is yet another thing that we have allowed to become so deeply incorporated into our psyche's there is no doing away with it at this point.  \n\nMonitoring is the only way but unfortunately... look what happens even when you do raise your own right... you run across every other idiot in the world that goes with the flow and does whatever impulsive thing that comes into their channel switched-attention span,  little mind.\n\nStupidity is not only catchy... it is an epidemic!  When you find and get the vaccination.  Let me know where!
875987
No, but a lot of people prefer tan. Then again I like vampires and I don't read Cosmo.  If there were a certain skin color it would be a fad like anything else and eventually its opposite would become popular again.  I just prefer that people have skin - that's good enough for me.
331829
Hee hee, that's so true.  For teens who dress goth, without understanding what goth is all about, it's just a fad that represents rebellion against normal fashion.  Truth is, real goths don't care about standing out, they just want to be themselves, and they're not rebelling against the system.  It think the spooky kids just dress that way to piss of their parents, which teen "punks", "hippies", and "greasers" probably did in past generations.  It doesn't do any harm, but in hindsight it's silly.
873570
I prefer Vampires. From everything I have ever read (which is a lot) Vampires are sexy, sophisticated, lethal, and are hard to kill. Also Vampires become more powerful (and usually richer) with age. Werewolves, when werewolves are mindless beasts. It's unknown to me if werewolves live for ever, and they are relatively easy to kill because they don't fight with any kind of skill. \nHow many sexy vampires do you know? How many sexy werewolves?
366122
Yahoo!  has a lot of groups involving both Living Vampires and other interests such as books, music, etc.  I would strongly recommend them!  Visit Yahoo! Groups.
1125439
I'm not, (only 24) but my husband and most of my friends are.  Some wear band t-shirts and black jeans, some wear nice tailored clothing in black, and some just go all out and wear uber goth clothes.  For some reason, people don't mind as much when you're an older goth, they just think you're dressed up for something or have a job that requires that outfit.  For the goths that I know who don't appear to be goths at their work (like a high school teacher I know) they're just themselves at all times, and don't care if their clothes aren't "goth enough."  Most older goths have normal lives, many are married, most have regular jobs, but most also enjoy expressing themselves through various art forms such as sculpture, poetry, and painting.
300633
Teens need to learn that there are limits and boundaries to what they can do.  You just talk about them and don´t expect them to accept it on face value. Tell them what will happen if they don´t respect those limits, not in terms of threat but in terms of reasoning with them.  They understand that out there, there are traffic lights, bills to pay and other "real-life" limitations to comply.  Don´t become a police for them.  Teach them that everyone is responsible for order and good keeping of the places they inhabit.
655114
Vampires are keeping a fairly low profile.  It seems like there are very few.  Certainly if I have met vampires, they have not identified themselves as such.\n\nDo you feel as a real vampire that you are treated differently or badly by others?  Do you get movie offers or death threats?
102544
Most teens like to be noticed so they attract as much attention as possible. Also teens mimic, and would do some of the so called hip things their favorite celebrity or other role models do. For some, it's all about fashion and style.
810331
I guess you mean a real Vampire who sucks blood out of people.\nI've never met the real thing, but i know lots of people who wish they were Vampires and were imortal and others who pray that a real one would come and turn them.\nWhen I was 19 I was madly in love with Lestat so I understand their appeal, their lustre. If Vampires are like Rice's beings then I'd love to interview one and so would many others.\nI'm afraid that you won't find what you are looking for here..
1034587
Because people view teenagers as these younger "know-it-alls" who have never lived life and have no idea what it's like to live. They don't understand that times have changed and so have teenagers. They also don't understand that everyone is different, and have gone through different things.
744243
In folklore, as well as some movies like "Love At First Bite" with George Hamilton (older film, came out in the 1970's), it took three bites, one per night, and on the third night, you became a lesser vampire to the one that created you.\n\nIn many films, like the film "Horror of Dracula" that featured Christopher Lee, you became a vampire not from the bite, but from being nearly drained to death and then drinking blood from the other vampire, which transmitted the condition to you like a virus.  After a time period of adjustment, which might include a period of unlife, you would rise as a full, thirsting vampire.\n\nVladimir Tepesh Dracule "the Impaler", the man that Bram Stoker based his character Dracula on, hero to many in Romania to this day, was said to have been cursed into his condition by the Church, doomed to roam the earth as a lost soul.   So, there are many ways to become one of the Nosferatu, just as there are many species of animals.\n   When I was younger, I wanted to be one, but I discovered that what I really wanted was what I thought they had by their very nature:  Power over others.  I get that now by writing romance stories about them and getting money from the sales of my novels.  There's nothing like doing something you love, making a big profit, and using that cash to buy all the things you want.
321934
No.  Vampires are a myth.  There's no evidence to suggest that vampires really exist.  \n\nHOWEVER some people do take things too far and start thinking and acting as if they were a vampire.  These people are not vampires.  Vampires are immortal, have special powers, etc.  Nothing like that exists.
61613
Probably because being themselves seems to dull. They probably think that more people will like them if they make their lives seem more exciting and they don't have high enough self-esteem to realize that people are more likely to want to be friends with who they really are rather than whatever fake persona they invent for themselves.
792132
In todays society, alot would say it's normal, only because they had them.\n\nI had 4 teens at once!!  I was a single parent, so I sure could of used alittle help in the "defieant" department.  BUT  they learned I don't put up with it.   \n\nMy kids are on their own now, and you know something,,,, MY BOYS all tell me, their glad I took charge and made the decisions I did when it came to their defiants.  That makes me proud.\n\nNOrmal.........NO   there's an unerlying problem when this starts to happen.  Sometimes though  the problem lies within the parents.    NO, be defiant when your out on your own.
633770
I'm gonna give it to you straight:\n\nAll girls want to play the evil sorceress bitch atleast once in their life.\n\nThat is all.