I was just wondering what ceritifications are really recognized by the computing industry?

I have my A+ certification and I don't know what one to get next...

I would try for some cisco ones they are looked highly upon. Start off trying for your CCNA then CCNP and go from there there is others also suck as CCSP CCDA CCDP. just look around but i would go for CCNA first personally.

does a 16 year old have all these certs??

no firewall and network is impossible..

i have that cisco stuff alsow..

but i dont think it would be usefull to me...
cause i`m not thinking of doing any network based jobs..

As a coincidence I was just reading this article :

A Harvest Of Security Certifications

For some reason I`ve always looked at SANS as the authority for security certs.Dunno why...