Online shopping fad catches up with youths

Online shopping, especially buying and selling second-hand items, is now the latest craze in the country. To cater to the growing demand for online shopping, several websites and Facebook groups have emerged to provide this service. However, after going through the advertisement posts and communicating with people who are buying and selling items on these online shopping websites, I realise that buying and selling objects of choice has become a compulsive hobby and maybe even 'mental sickness' for the younger generation.
For example, young people are buying motorcycles and then after riding for a few weeks selling those off to buy a bicycle. After buying a bicycle, they are riding it for a few weeks and then again selling it off to buy a DSLR camera, and then after buying a DSLR camera they are selling it off to buy a mobile phone and then after a while, they are selling the mobile phone to buy another item. It seems that many in the younger generation are constantly buying items not because they need those but rather out of an obsession that they need the items to 'show-off' with a view to making them 'look cool' in front of their peers.
Since the financial resource is limited and they never needed the item they had bought, they are selling that item off quickly too -- so that they can buy another one to impress their friends and acquaintances.
A common phrase that is being used by the sellers in their advertisement post to attract customers is 'Urgent Sale'. After reading the phrase 'Urgent Sale' the first time, I thought that these sellers needed financial help due to some personal emergency or that concerning their family members --- which is why they wanted to sell off their items immediately. But after communicating with many of them, I realised that they were using this phrase not because they or their family was facing some financial trouble but because they wanted to get rid of those items they had been possessing as they wanted to buy some others.
I have tried to explain to some of these young sellers that they maybe misusing and abusing the word 'urgent'. They came up with the reply stating that upon getting rid of an item they had to buy another, which was an 'urgent matter' to them. Hence they found nothing wrong with using the word 'urgent' in their advertisement posts. This clearly shows that buying and selling goods online has become a compulsive hobby and for some youths it is nothing short of mental sickness.
The younger generation caught in the web of this online buy-sale fever needs expert counselling and social intervention.  
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