I very recently just got my first tattoo, and while it's possible that I may regret it in the future, I love it at the moment and most likely will for years to come. It's uploaded on my profile if anyone wants to take a look, and yes, it is a dragon.

Honestly, I don't have some profoundly deep reason for getting my tattoo, and though I'm not a vain person, it's as much an aesthetic appeal as it has a bit of meaning and reason to me. They're extremely attractive (when well done) on others as well.

Statistically speaking though, only 14% of the population has any ink done. With that said, admittedly around 35-40% of adults under 40 have tattoos, so while that all your friends having tattoo isn't unusual, it's probably more to do with the crowd you hang out with rather than all 20 somethings. There's no denying that now days there's a huge change in the culture of tattoos, and are definitely becoming popular, but I'd hesitate to judge the reason why people get tattoos. According to a few surveys, around 40% of people who got tattoos did it mainly for a personal meaning, and in my experience most people really do get it for the aesthetics more than anything so......yeah you're totally entitled to your opinion and gods know that you should NOT get a tattoo unless you totally want to (because it IS permanent....anyone who doesn't consider that before getting a tattoo is silly) but there's the other side of it.