In your opinion, did Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series have a positive or negative impact on teenagers worldwide?

I think it's been negative, the heroine is very weak and I think the main relationship is quite obsessive and controlling of Bella which doesn't send the rigt message to young women. I know a lot of girls who now think in a good relationship you have to be around your man all the time, that he should want to keep tabs on you 24/7 and that women should let their men protect them rather than protecting themselves.

I also think there is rather a 'pack' mentality in some Twilight fans that rather than encouraging them to read other books actually makes them madami critical of other books and against them. there's even a pick on the twilight spot saying something like 'is it just me or since Twilight have you stopped wanting to read any book that isn't Twilight'.

sa pamamagitan ng the way, this should be a pick. The 'Answers' section of Fanpop is if you have a tanong based in fact, not a tanong about opinion.

The Twilight series has a negative impact on teenagers. However, it also depends on what the reader thought about the book itself to say that it had a "positive" impact.

I volunteer as a Sunday school teacher for an 8th grade (ages 12-13 ish) and I communicate with many other kids up to junior taon of High School (16-17). While there are some that are very pulled in sa pamamagitan ng the story, I find that they are just in pag-ibig with the general plot of Twilight: An ordinary girl find a spectacular and forbidden world through a person who falls hopelessly in pag-ibig with.

Every person wants to get away from the monotony of everyday life. And it is human nature to have aspirations and find something amazing to expand our knowledge, history and understanding- to make us feel accomplished in our lives. And lets face it, in every girl (or guy) there is a hopeless romantic, wishing that a pag-ibig with such depth was easy to find and hold onto.

As such, who can hold it against the young readers for being attracted to the book? But as you read the book and delve into the characters (or lack thereof) is where the readers will choose how it affects them.

In my opinion, Twilight has a negative impact because the protagonist, Bella Swan, does not "grow" through the series. She stays a person who is so distracted sa pamamagitan ng pag-ibig that she relies on others, mainly her lover, to protect her. And part of the reason why the protaganist does not change is because the partner, Edward, does not allow her to change. Edward, being a very possessive and overly protective person, drives away the people that could possibly give her a new perspective on the situation.

Also, the relationship is just not...for lack of better word, right. Women shouldn't have to feel the need to be protected sa pamamagitan ng a man. Women should be able to have their own set of morals and act upon them, instead of a man telling her how she should behave or act or look.

So, where does the positive fit in with all of this? The positive is that some girls might realize how easy it is to be caught in an abusive relationship. Some women, who are able to step back and look at the situation will see the warning signs that Edward is not the perfect man. Why would you be enamored sa pamamagitan ng a man who sneaks into your room at night when you don't know him? There is also a chance that the women who are obsessed with with the books are just experiencing a passing phase (fueled sa pamamagitan ng hormones, no doubt) and when they look back, they would see how wrong the relationship they were fawning over really is.

The Twilight series has an unchanging protagonist in a non healthy relationship, and does not bring any creativity to the vampire genre that hasn't been done before, and only preys on the fantasies and underdeveloped ideas of what pag-ibig is. I doubt I need to point out how negative these points are to the young minds of the world.

The books weren't bad, and it gave teenage girls good books to read, but it made the girls a bit obsessed. . .

As a bookseller, I have to argue that Stephanie Meyer, for all of her 'faults', has done the pagbaba world a service. As many have argued that J.K. Rowling brought young boys back into the world of reading, Stephanie Meyer has brought high school girls who thought that pagbaba was uncool back into the fold. Again, argue what you will about her Pagsulat style and content, but she has done madami good than bad. Her targeted audience will read her books and then demand to read more. It is our "duty" to then steer them to higher "quality" literature. (Although that prompts a whole new discussion of 'high' vs. 'low' art.)

Definitely negative. Twilight gives teenage girls a bad view of how relationships should be. They think that it is great for you to have a controlling boyfriend, and that it's fine for them to sneak into your room in the middle of the night to watch you sleep, as long as they are good looking and say they pag-ibig you, making you feel special and better than a normal teenager.
I also disagree with you about the books getting people to read. I think the only reason people read Twilight is because they pag-ibig either Edward or Jacob, which is a bad reason to read a book.
There are tons of better books out there that would get teenagers interested in reading, without all these bad influences. They also give people less respect for classic vampire stories like ones sa pamamagitan ng Bram Stoker or Anne Rice. I've also heard that some people get so obsessed with the books that they refuse to read other books if it's not vampire, werewolf, or pag-ibig related.

Well the one good thing the Twilight series has done is to get girls reading. Hopefully they'll graduate to other books later on. Perhaps even the works of Jane Austen.

I think it gave both. I know people who would not touch a book if their life depended on it and i talked to someone who actually sinabi they started twilight and so that got her onto other books. But then again now women are so obbsessed with finding an edward cullen waiting for someone like him to come around. But i think that it does not ipakita grls have to be with their boyfriend 24/7 because bella was with him because of her passionate desire for him.

definatly negative anything with vamps is negative but twilight espically it makes people think they need a boyfriend its happened to people ik its a bad influence on kids of any age and there better things out there parents who wont let there kids read harry potter y in in the world do they let them read twilight just saying its bad and im sorry if i offended some twilighters its a bad book for teens bellas a bad role model

Neither. People like the books, and if they don't then they don't read them. It has had a positive impact on a few teenagers, sa pamamagitan ng helping them to start reading, but it's not made much of a difference really. I can see why some people might think it has had a negative influence on how people view their relationships, but they are the minority who actually think that how people behave in books is how they should behave in real life. Most Twilight fans aren't affected sa pamamagitan ng this. I certainly wouldn't use Bampira as an example of how a good relationship should be!

Also, I'm 12 and most 12 taon olds aren't worried about relationships of this kind. Most of my mga kaibigan have read the Twilight books, and haven't changed a bit. Does it matter if the characters aren't a good example to people? Surely people don't usually copy what book characters do?

I believe her stories gave a negative impact, for several reasons.

For one thing, it has implanted the idea into teenage minds that the ideal boyfriend should have abusive traits. These teens don't even realize the abusive nature of the main male characters, and are blinded sa pamamagitan ng Stephenie Meyer's insistence that they are only doing these things because they pag-ibig their girlfriend, and that they are beautiful, so therefore they cannot be evil.

There are many types of subliminal messaging in here. The number of people who are obsessed with the relationship between Jacob and Renesmee is shocking and, quite frankly, horrifying. The anti-feminist messaging is so obvious. The idea of a perfect girl (supposed to be Bella) is that she is completely anti-feminist and dependent and is best fitting in the kitchen. That is supposed to be selfless, but in reality, it's just anti-feminist. The down side of that is that madami and madami girls are striving to be like that. After all the progress we females have made over the years, I'd say it's a bad thing.

One madami big thing: it brought on a whole teenage war. Not only are there screaming fans who find it to be the end of the world if someone is not on their team (Team Edward, Team Jacob, etc.), but the tensions between the anti-Twilighters and the Twihards... it's astounding and terrible. It's become an unhealthy obsession, both to those who pag-ibig it AND to those who despise it.

it has a completely NEGATIVE efect on EVERYONE 4th grade up and thats just the book since twilight came out teen pregnancies have gone up. twilight is corrupting little kids and most fans are fans beacause someones hot. its a DISGRACE to vampires, mga asong lobo and even apples. the names and covers have nothing to do with the books.

Twilight makes appalling actions seem acceptable, or even exemplary. Bella leaves her mga kaibigan and family for a boy and the book makes it appear to be a leap of faith, or an act of limitless love. Edward all but controls Bella, but the wording implies that he is Bella’s guardian, and totally devoted to Bella. It’s a twisted narrative that leads innocent girls to believe things that are not only untrue, but dangerous. It falsely insinuates that a woman needs a boyfriend in order have any purpose in living. Bella’s actions say that a single male person is madami important than her family, her friends, social status, and even herself as a person. Edward is overly controlling and a stalker.

There is nothing that indicates edward is controlling. He is trying to protect Bella throughout the entire series. Nothing is madami important to him than Bella. Every women should want a man that in a life and death situation they would do anything in there power to protect them.

Bella does go crazy in New Moon but that is her own doing and not Edwards he left to protect her, and any girl/women that reads/watches twilight should learn that what she did was wrong just like she learned what she did was wrong.

As for the books being terrible I 100% believe that is a matter of opinion, just as someone may say they believe Harry Potter is a terrible book (many do) it just depends on there likes and dislikes and the outcome of how many people read the books says the complete oposite of them being terrible. The way the book is written is very well the same as Harry Potter.