Too subjective a listing.

To harken back to the days of yore when irishgit was a teenager, some of the people my mother thought were the "wrong crowd" were just partying fools, while some of the folks she thought were upstanding citizens were hard core hoodlums who covered it up better.

I know my friends extremely well and know which ones are good for me and which are not. But I have witnessed many impressionable and once nice younger people be turned into smoking, hollering little bitches because they slipped into an unfortunate group. A real shame.

I understand that peer pressure and the hunger for friends is extremely heavy during the teen years, but a lot of the time they tend to choose the wrong friends, and end up getting into trouble. It often seems to be the usually well-behaved decent kids that are considered "boring" by many of the popular kids, and for that they are picked on. But just because a kid is popular or "cool" doesn't mean he/she would be a good influence on another. There are ways for a group of youth to have normal adolescent fun and still hang on to their scruples. Sadly, many young people have yet to discover them.

it depends who are cool at the time. i probably hung out with what was considered the wrong crowd but i can't say we were cool. iwould like to think so but i thought it was the cheerleaders and those most popular were col and they were basically the good kids

As a child, I sometimes wanted to try to hang out with the wrong people, but luckely never did. Many of them have a very sad life.

I think this is done more for comfort than to impress anyone else.

This stretches beyond teenagers, adults are capable of this too. Its normal for most teenagers to hang out with "the wrong crowd", its about making those mistakes so that they can learn from it and grow. A wrong assumption for any parent to make however is to assume that their child is too good to hang around certain children as it won't be long before someone else might be saying the same about your child.

I think this is a common habit for teens because of peer pressure.

Unfortunately, I've seen some of my friends do this and as a result, they're behind bars.