The relationship between today’s youth and Internet has been explored by a new thesis. The thesis also explored how youth of today learn and socialize through new technologies.

It was emphasized by Sociologist Lucia Merino at the University of the Basque Country that the new technologies are taken by the digital generation as something natural and are being used intuitively.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Thanks to this relationship of normality, young people have, moreover, developed skills that previous generations lacked, such as greater visual intelligence, taste for hypertextuality or the non-lineal access to information, immediacy or greater ability to solve problems without the need to consult a manual.

According to the study, this represents great symbolic satisfaction for young people, and they themselves accept practices on the Internet where they can see and be seen.

The thesis also highlights creative appropriation: they are able to interpret, use and apply these technologies for a function different to that for which they were created in principle, and they are aware of this.

It was stated by the author that the skill should be understood as a source of social innovation and youth of today, when compared to their antecedents, could experience a generation gap because of their skills.

Frantic calls from students about to take board exams are flooding counselors and most of the calls pertain to advice on how to overcome the parental pressure, questions on grading system, question paper patterns, and fear of memory loss.

The stress levels of youth of today seem to be on an all-time high, which is evident from the fact that most calls were made at midnight.

From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

The incidents of students attempting to suicide, preferring isolation and a sudden change in behaviour has been reported in the past couple of weeks. Mahendru said that in the last lap of preparation when studies were in full throttle, poor marks in pre-boards worries students.

She receives 20-25 screened calls a day, including five hyper calls which require high level of attention and expertise to handle. Most of the students fail to follow a proper time table. They focus on main subjects, including maths and science.

In this month alone four suicides by school students have rocked the city. The increasing pressure from the parents and the society has been continuously taking a toll on students. Over 1.25 lakhs students in 80 CBSE schools in the city are appearing in boards exams.

It is important for parents to realize that their kind support and patience can help their children get better examination scores and the incidents of suicides by students reduce to a significant extent.

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The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.  - Bishop Mandell Creighton

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities:  the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.  – Abbott Lawrence Lowell

If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing… you have a college degree.  – Author Unknown

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.  – Theodore Roosevelt

College is the best time of your life.  When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?  – David Wood

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.  – Sydney J. Harris

A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.  – Robert Maynard Hutchins

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.  – Elbert Hubbard

I learned three important things in college – to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.  – Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952

A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.  – Caroline Bird

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You’ve got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. - Steven D. Woodhull

Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!-Allison Gappa Bottke

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life’s affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion – of fun, love, or something that will outlast you – so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.-Terri Guillemets

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning?-Coleman Cox

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.-Victor Hugo

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.  Seek discipline and find your liberty.-Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it – torn up to irrecoverable tatters.-Samuel Butler

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it…. People think pleasing God is all God care about.  But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.-Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.-Samuel Johnson

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Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives. – Brian Tracy

I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action. – Napoleon Hill

You ask me if we are going to hold the sword all our lives. If we have to do it we will do it, but I hope that it won’t be necessary. There are those among the Palestinians who understand that they will not be able to achieve anything by force. Those that are ready to speak peace, I am ready to talk and negotiate with, as a matter of fact I am in contact with them now. – Ariel Sharon

I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants. – Zig Ziglar

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. – Brian Tracy

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential. – Brian Tracy