Friends, peer group, peer pressure

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The definition of friendship is incomplete without emphasizing or bringing to light the term ''friend''. A friend is someone you care and show love to and who reciprocates the action. A friend is someone you trust share your ideas with and whom returns the action. The relationship between friends is known as an
interpersonal relation between two or more people accustomed by love, care, trust, respect shared interest, opinion and co-operation.

Friendship is quite necessary in the life of human beings for the purpose of interaction, communication, information etc. However the type of friends one keeps determines your behavior, attitude, way of thinking etc. Friendship mainly exists between people of the same peer group. This peer groups have their influence which could be bad or good.

Peergroup is a group of people who shares similar features such as age, belief, class, status etc. The tendency for one to get influenced by the way of life of their friends in a peergroup is known as peerpressure. Peer pressure between friends in a peergroup is known to have different effects on the society, the individuals themselves and their families, these effectives are both negative and positive.

Sharing, caring, love between two or more people leads to friendship which makes peer groups and leads to peer pressure. Peer pressure has positive effects such as studying, making friends with good people can help increase one's academic performances. Keeping good friends can enable you to study harder with them, hence enhancing your knowledge.

Keeping of good friends is quite important because good friend gives good advice on the way to handle challenging situations to problems and help you avoid trouble.

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Peer pressure from good friends sometimes encourages one to do what's right, use yout talent exclusively.
However peerpressure also has it's negative effects, peerpressure from wrong persons could cause one to adopt bad, dangerous and harmful practices such as smoking, alcohol consumption, drug abuse, stealing, bad attitude. These practices are quite harmful to the human body and may lead to damage of the organs within the body system. Sometimes hanging out with bad friends influence once behavioral attitude towards their family. e.g lack of respect for their parents, bullying of younger one's etc.

Another dangers of peergroups due to bad friends is low academic performances.Keeping bad friends could make you neglate your studies hence causing academic performances.

Also a major effect of keeping bad friends is that they give wrong advice. Sometimes one tends to change their mode of dressing due to peer pressure, causing them to wear unacceptable attires exposing their bodily parts.

Hanging with bad pressure groups can cause one to forsake their morals and values, hence inclining to immoral practices with another. These practices could lead to unwanted or teenage pregnancy which is a stigma in the society.

Hence the best solution is to pick your friends wisely. Just like the saying goes ''bad communication corrupts good manners''

All the same, the type of friends you keep determines who you are and who you'll be in the future. Just like the saying also goes' show me your friend and i will tell you who you are''.

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