"Cool"

In the advertisement for Trix cereal, they showed how kids should be in the "cool group" so they aren't constantly chasing things. In class we discussed how important it is to us to be cool and fit in with the crowd. Quart believes that teens today will do anything to be cool and start new trends. A lot of advertising focuses on teens and are also developed by teens. If we see a lot of people wearing a new type of shoes, most of us are going to want to get a pair. For example, Nike and Uggs are very popular within our age group where everyone owns a pair. But Klosterman believes that today we try to be cool by not being cool if that makes sense. Kids just don't want to be uncool and feel out of place. He mentions that if a lot of people had more of one thing then it wouldn't be so cool anymore since the fact that everyone had it. But I believe that  teens do try hard to be cool. If they see something starting to trend, they almost immediately want to get it too. Sometimes the things that trend aren't very cheap either witch shows how much some people want to be cool.