After being urged to check out her blog on MySpace.com by a young friend, I was surprised to see that she had specified, "Crushed," in the space where the site user was supposed to fill in her current mood.

Thinking something terrible must have happened, I called her mother who assured me that nothing unusual had taken place.

Being the curious type, I checked out a few more users on MySpace.com only to find that almost all of them described their current mood as something less than happy.

I found,"angry," "gloomy," "irritable," "sad," "unhappy," "depressed," "miserable," and even one who described her mood as "evil."

To be fair, I did find one "happy," and one "joyful," but the majority were not what one would expect from teens who should be enjoying the most carefree time of their lives.

Is this a new fad, or are all these kids really on the verge of nervous breakdowns?

When I made my exit from that spot, I could only describe my mood as "depressed." Perhaps I need to go back and start a blog of my own there so I can express my daily moods along with the rest of them.