Do teens think this garbage is good?

doing all the teen reading that i am, i have to remember that all these books are written by adults. some of them, like the gossip girl and a-list books are written clearly by smart people who would be writing something else if it paid. but at the point of The Dating Game it's all quite gone to pot. after the premise of GossipGirl, using the gossip website to bookend chapters and narrate, Little,Brown (and Natalie Standiford)has created a slightly more normal high school with more average students, where the premise is now a sex website with cosmo like quizes and personals. in some ways these teenagers are more believable: they're really young and a bit stupid. running around to parites at houses with out parents, chasing boys who would never talk to them, and worrying not so much about protecting virginity and making sex special or even rock star, but just getting experience and losing virginity. One of the main characters, Holly, has huge tits which she both uses and regrets. Yet, while she's worried about getting a reputation as a slut, mostly because she has big tits, she's still acting kind of slutty, making out on the couch with a boy who she has barely met. Meanwhile Mads, the youngest acting and looking of the girls, is just trying to get somewhere with anyone.
what throws me is teens would never use a dating site monitored by one of them: it' would be too desperate. they would mostly all lie on the quizes and it makes no sense how they set people up. based on what? the writers didn't even bother to write through that. ga. it's so awful and written on such a meaningless level that after reading it i feel like i've been stuck listening to those horrible canned voices used for cartoons.
the most interesting parts of the story are (get this!)the parents, houses, and the school, which are given little attention in the rest of the drivel, but it is something compelling.
even though these are in the same vien as the gossip girl books, it looks like no one reads them. they're not on any of the amazon.com "my FAVORITE books" lists, as all the pants, princess, and gossip girl books are.
so no, teens aren't this stupid. especially teens who read.