What does each color band mean?

These days there is a huge craze for color wrist bands. The plastic bands never appealed to me but being from the country where it is common for girls to wear different color bracelet either metal or glass at all ages, made me start thinking why the school authorities, especially some teachers were against the teenagers flashing their colorful wrist band.  Why are they disapproving the beautiful multicolored bracelets? They looked okay to me.  So, that got me started to research more about the bands.  What does each color band mean?   Each has different engraving, different color but about the same width. Does the engravings make it different from one another?   I had an idea that the band were introduced to support a cause. The first one that comes to my mind is the yellow silicon gel bracelet that was introduced for fund raising for the Lance Armstrong Foundation for the cure for cancer.  Later that year it became "the fashion item" for Americans and  it didn't take much time to spread its popularity in other countries too. Before anybody could realize, it became viral worldwide.  So, does yellow bracelet stand for support for the cure for cancer?  After a bit of browsing I was shocked to find what different color of bracelet meant.  Well, yellow bracelet with "Livestrong"  engraving still stands for support for cancer.  However, just a yellow wrist band indicates the wearer is open to give a hug!  Orange indicated that the wearer is open to give a kiss and the list goes on and on...  As I read the list, each color surpassed the other in the willingness of the teenagers or young adults to do or try new things at that hormonal imbalanced age.  

   With disbelief I dug myself further in the research and found that the jelly bracelets were around from 1980s! It is kind of a game and snapping others bracelet took the game to a whole new level.  Well, I still need to digest a lot of information about these jelly bracelets of different colors.  Knowledge sometimes can have negative effect on our thinking process.

   Having said that, I think not all kids who wear the bracelets are aware of the meaning of the color distinctions.  It is just a fashion statement and a craze among the young, younger and youngest.  And these days there are so many different color bracelets for so many different cause that I strongly believe that in future each color bracelet would stand for a cause.  Each color will retain it freshness, fairness and pureness.

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Just for FYI parents check these site out...
http://www.blurtit.com/q610033.html
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shag%20band
 http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_each_color_band_mean