I think that there is nothing wrong with using the word love loosely. Because, it is a great way to experience life and emotions..and practically everything. It is a great way of learning. It is all right to say you love someone...even if you just feel it and not really mean it...Because Love is a tool for everyone and can be used by anyone whichever way they want to..(just like freedom) but they do have to consider the consequences ( just like if you use your freedom without thinking first)... I mean it's better getting hurt and learning from it...thinking that you are in love. Rather than learning out of hate and anger... As for hurting someone with "LOVE"..well, you just have to wait and see, because surely, you will get yours.

To me love is something really important. I kinda feel like people have lost sight of it's true meaning but then again before now most marriages were aranged. So i don't think love was used that often really. But love still is used loosely today in my opinon. But maybe as teens get older they understand better and to use it as much. Tho loving is a good thing because it is difficantly better then hating...Well...this is a intersting topic.

it's used way too loosely, i admit to just throwing it out everywhere. but it's better than using the word hate.

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Do you think that teenagers use the word love too loosely now?

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Most defidently! You love your friends, unconditionally, now that is not useing it loosly, but saying you love your significant other is used for wrong purposes these days. Some people say"I Love You" and mean it, but few teens these days. Mostly, teenagers, I am sad to say, say I Love You, to lure one of the opposite gender into bed. It is so sad and I am praying for that to stop.

i tell my friends i love them and i do, that's about it. some people who are supposed to have my "unconditional love" i have to tell them i love them, even when i feel like i don't... you might think that's how much i "like" them, but i think that's tossing the word around

Yea, i go around saying I love u to people all the time,half of the time I hate them, but i probably wont take that word to seriously untill i get older, then I'll only say it when i really mean it.

Love is just as relative as hate to me. I dont try to get to mixed up in either of them. I would tell someone I loved them if they needed me to to help them feel better or something but its just as empty as any other word.

Gem is right.

Probably because most teenagers don't mean it..

I'm in love, but I don't believe it when other teens say that they are. I don't know, go figure.

OK i believe that my boyfriend loves me and i love him. i just dont think we are in love. we love each other but we are not in love...i dont know if that makes since to you but it makes since to me. and seriously i dont know if im ready to be in love. and it takes time to be in love. i love alot of people, i just am not in love with them....do u get me?

Missy

It's hard for me to believe people when they say things like "I love you" and " You're so beautiful",etc. because I have been lied to and made fun of in the past. Now, I really do believe my boyfriend loves me and I love him. I agree that today's society uses the word "Love" too loosely. It is sometimes hard to figure out if you really love someone. To me, love is when you know you couldn't live without them in your life.

hey when you are young, how do you know??

I dated a girl, and I was sure it was love, but then we broke up and I realized I felt so much more for the next girl...it had to be love...and then we broke up. Finaly I am with someone who no one has been able to steal me from(joke), and I'm pretty sure it's love...we've been together for a long time and I still smile when she walks in the room.....so it's got to be love!!!!

Love doesn't mean much anymore, to a lot of people. I had a boyfriend who told me that he loved me TWO DAYS into our relationship. Um, yeah okay. I don't believe when guys say they like me, much less when they say they love me. I have a friend who told me that one day someone is going to tell me that they love me, and I'm going to laugh at them, because I just won't believe them. And that's true. People say "I love you" with the same attitude and nonchalantness that they say "Hey, how's the weather?" The word love doesn't mean anything to me anymore.