Identity and Youth

Youth is an abstract entity, determined by an imaginary and symbolical changing dimension. Youth and identity are linked because both of them desire simultaneously the change and establishment. This friction is essential, not only because of social history but because of life cycles. This is a field of ideals, where rules return with the possibility of restarting. Identity is indeed an avoidable reference to get close to this period, so identity forms must be distinguished. To social and cultural differences, and globalization and new places, we can add the crumbling process of youth. Probably Internet -a place with no time and no space- determines this youth as a new form of an ancient time. Digital citizen absorb all ages, and is been changed by virtuality. Each morning one should choose between look through the home window, or to the get the planet through de computer; and this divergence constitutes this citizen, his/her identity, face his/her own body and his/her alter. Links and unlinks between virtuality and reality debate on a different temporality, and ages (like youth) lose their traditional limits.