Despite the constant Facebook changes, teenagers aren't pissed off enough to deactivate their accounts.

Shané Winner browses a shoe store with friends as "Oh Holy Night", sung in Josh Groban's mellow, operatic voice, floats around a huge Christmas tree decorated in lighted red and gold baubles while Frank Sinatra serenades a few people in the food court at West Mall.

You're all dressed up with no where to go. Hair looking fly and lip gloss on shine. Your on a mission. No matter how many snaps of the camera it takes your looking for that perfect profile pic. The album is in need of a new addition and it has to be just right.

I learnt two very important lessons in the last 500 days of my life. I've learnt to never, ever change any part of myself in the littlest way for anyone.

The sweetest smile, beautiful eyes and pure swagger. This boy is handsome on steroids. You're using all the tricks in the book to try and catch his eye. That is until he does the unthinkable.

For the past two months a slew of fetes have entertained crowds of revelers as this country prepares for Carnival celebrations next week. In the crowds at several of these fetes teenagers are partying just as hard as the adults. Some with permission from their parents and others without.

Kim Lopez* took the bus for months. Even bummed a ride with a friend to school to save for her belly button piercing. She made all kinds of sacrifices to get the money she needed for it.

The launch of the iPad was so far undoubtedly the biggest tech event for 2010. But perhaps you techies need something else to look forward to. Other events of value that will give you some hope for this year.

'Flower_Mittens' wrote her first of two tweets over a month ago. It read, "Trying to figure out the purpose of Twitter ... cuz i really don't get it..."

Most girls, specifically those my age, are attracted to the boys with the social status — the boys who are into the latest fashion trends that they themselves set or follow wholeheartedly, the boys who have a swarm of friends who worship the ground they walk on.