Authentic or all the same, who cares anyway?

What is authentic about YOUR teen subculture? Does your generation have anything that it can call it's own? If there is nothing authentic about your culture, discuss how you feel about that. Does this even matter to you?

I feel that nothing is “authentic” to my subculture. To me, nothing can be labeled as one person’s generation. I feel as though the closest thing we could label as ours would be technology, or specifically use of computers. This is only because no other culture had this technology before. We as people are too diverse and vastly different to say that any particular activity, product, idea, clothing, sports game, etc. is a specific generation’s. I feel as though not much can be authentic our culture anymore because we will follow what the media displays on T.V. as “cool” or is new trend, and not what we actually chose as ours. Honestly, I could care less if our generation didn’t have anything that we could say we owned, it doesn't make us any greater or worse people.

Its a capitalist's society

"It's a shame that the people who are listening to you the most are only interested in you because they want you and your peers to buy their product."

The people who listen to us most carefully want only enough information out of us to market their products more efficiently. There are no laws or regulations against this, and I believe this is an innovative yet deceitful way of solving the problem of advertising. It doesn't really affect me as a consumer when I see and notice ads or marketing campaigns geared specifically toward certain groups of consumers. If the main purpose for a company is money, why wouldn't they take every step to make the odds for selling their product greater?