ROZA JUNIOR, José Alberto    ROMERA, Maria Lúcia Castilho. Contemporaneidade, adolescência e orkut: a incorporação - conexão e des-conexão, eis uma questão. []. , 10, 2, pp.605-631. ISSN 1518-6148.

This article seeks a link between some thoughts on the contemporary and the election of the adolescent as a model of this new way of thinking and acting. Thus, the Orkut - site of relationships quite widespread in Brazil - was used as a resource for research. Inside out the answer to a question about some teenagers: Who am I? And so, we connect and disconnect in the contemporary world. What remains is a question: how the society seized this information and how it deals with this life-style without any resistance? The world seems to have a happy shopping day, whoever they are. From the day our daily bread to the relationships of a night, we are consumed or consumers of lifestyles, with a disturbing acceptance of a normal cause of suffering increasing presence in the offices of psychology, for example. We treat, therefore, a world that does not favor the rapprochement between the people, the creation of links. In this scenario, the adolescent is seen instigated to establish how typical this time of relationships: brief relationships, focused on the satisfaction of immediate needs and desires, no commitments beyond the time of the relationship. If you use a radical expression, we would say that the current relationships are instantaneous, in another word, have the exact duration of the confluence of ephemeral demands, since they continually renew and are multiplying. We believe in the difficult task to answer who we are. Many possibilities can be found. Thus, the tour made on Orkut and removal of sections of some profiles shows us the quality of merchandise we can find in contemporary.

: Contemporary; Orkut; Teenager; Relationships; Psychology.

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