that during the last twenty years, teenagers have gone through significant changes in
choosing their pastimes. The survey results are presented through a graph which
shows that there is a steady rise in young people’s tendency to watch TV. In 1990,
41% of teen agers liked watching TV which increased to 48% in the next ten years
and it further increased to 52% in the next decade. Unfortunately, the picture is grim
in terms of young people’s attraction to open field games and sports. When 50% of
youngsters opted for games and sports in the 90s, 12% withdrew themselves from it
after a decade making it 38%. Unfortunately the falling tendency persisted on during
the next ten years and by 2010 it came to 25%. Though the young people have
dissociated themselves noticeably from games and sports, there is a sharp and solid
increase in their association with online or computer assisted programmes. In 1990
when the users of online or computer for pastimes were only 9%, in 2000 the number
nearly doubled and reached 14% with a rapid increase in the next ten years when it
shot up to 23%.
The survey also explains the reasons for this change. It says that television has
become a part of everyday life even to the underprivileged section of people. This
results in young people’s choice for watching TV as one of the most favourite
pastimes. The increasing urbanization has reduced the number of open fields.
Therefore, there is a fall in selecting games and sports as favourite pastimes, though
it’s not any good news for the country. And the reason of selecting the computer
assisted or online programmes is that computer technology is getting cheaper, easier,
and more popular every day. Indeed our young generations are stepping to an eworld.
