Current technology has become a must for young persons nowadays, many of their activities being generated and accompanied by today's technological structures. From learning, to keeping informed, from work to entertainment and recreation activities, all these elements with pragmatic or aesthetic focus, in a collective perspective or an intimately individual one, are built upon or mediated through the new technologies. Rejecting technology, in the name of a number of so-called absolute theoretical values would mean not paying attention to reality and rejecting it. The best thing to do would be to subdue technology, to humanise and spiritualise it, assigning it practices where the complementarity of values should be present. Recognising the conduct that youth have adopted towards the new technologies makes us think that they are not considerably negative and blamable, the way they might be described at first glance. Most young people use technology very carefully and within reasonable limits, the excesses not being greater than the ones peculiar to other psycho-behavioral contexts. Nevertheless, the delay and the creation of certain habits – and also the awareness regarding their existence! – causes us not to lose from sight the possible lapses which we can prevent at the level of our educational activities. Especially when the people under consideration are still flexible and sensitive to the different educogen stimuli
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The Impact of the Current Technologies on the Youth's Personalities Development
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