Nadira Hira writes on the Fortune blog that rather than spit-balling young pros during this economic crisis, bosses should be jolted awake with the realization that the rules of the game have changed.

Unlike our parents who clung to the same companies for eons, our heightened fears about job security have made us more compelled than ever to “follow our dreams,” “make a difference,” and all that beauty pageantry-type stuff.

In short: we’re not sticking around if we aren’t happy.

While there is some truth to what Hira espouses, it’s hard to be quixotic with $40G in student loans.

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Turns out that combination of coddling also makes us lousy candidates to be entrepreneurs, some big wig PhD tells Forbes. com.

The “Everyone Gets a Trophy” generation is just too wimpy to handle the hard punches people have to endure to be trailblazers and industry pioneers, he argues.

Is he right?

Apparently, 1 in 5 ages 19 to 25 have compulsive tendencies or anti-social behavior that can — gulp — sometimes lead to violence. (Does a closet obsession with The Hills count?)

The survey of some 5,000 young folks found that most of them have drug and alcohol abuse problems and many have behaviors that interfere with daily life. (Like incessantly checking Facebook for friend updates?)

Anyway, I always wonder how much these studies can be trusted if the results always seem to the mirror the agenda of the people doing it. In this case, a bunch of psychiatric research centers, which probably always need to prove they need funding for something.

Should we obsess over the findings?

I was leafing through Marie Claire — don’t judge me, it actually does have interesting articles in between the glossy blurbs about flouncy clothes and accessories I can’t afford.

This intriguing story asks: why do ambitious young women say they hate working for other women? Turns out female bosses are either too chummy or too catty. Shocker. Makes me think the two extremes of how Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have been portrayed.

On the flip side, an article in the Wall Street Journal offers tips — condescendingly I might add — for women to “fit in” a dude-dominated office. How about identifying “alpha and beta males” so you can mold your language accordingly when addressing them?  Seriously? Are we in the jungle?

Oh yeah, ladies, and don’t forget to throw back a beer with your male co-workers every now and then, but whatever you do, don’t offer to get the coffee for meetings. You’ll make Susie Anthony roll over in her grave.

I’ll let you be the judge on this one.

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Is it possible that we’re overindulging in an endless flow of sound bytes, YouTube clips, news articles and blog comments?

Time writer Michael Kinsley has asked the question I even wondered as I was starting this site. Seriously, how many blogs does the world need?

We’re fat on blogs.

I’m with you, Mike.  The overlapping, multiplication and seemingly originless and infinite info online leaves us in a post-modern dream sifting through what we actually know, what’s fluff and how the heck we know what we know.

Is it time for an information diet rather than consuming it all?

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Or get ready to do some serious explaining in a 7-page, 63-question application for a coveted spot in the Obama administration.

This ultimate interrogation barely stops short of asking applicants how much time they served in detention as a sixth grader.

Aps are asked to list every single website in which they appear and whether they have ever sent a text, email or IM that could be “a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family or President-elect.”

Um, who hasn’t?

Oh yeah, and they should also remember to include all aliases or “handles” they have used on the Internet, in addition to any blogs or comments they authored that may be floating around in cyberspace.

As one 20-something blogger notes (yes, there is a 20-something angle) tracing ones’ electronic history will only get trickier as the century plods along.

In the next several decades, are future presidential aides going to have to list that they used the AIM screen name 2Hawt4U as a high school sophomore?  What about those Shutterfly pics of a beer pong tourney from a frat party in 2003 or that dating website they joined as a 29-year-old?

It will take some serious sifting through millions of Google results.

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Starting this week, Facebook users can vote on two new applications. One lets you pass a greeting card around to all your friends to “sign.” How about that group “Feel Better From Your Hangover Soon” card you always wanted to send? The other ap is a personalized news service that creepily predicts what kind of news you’ll like. What about predicting what we won’t like? Now there’s a push for a real informed public.

The voting application itself is a hidden advertisement for the company that built it, a clever way Facebook is trying to stir the inner consumer Facebook users.

Oh, Dobbs Ferry kid Mark Zuckerberg, you were so much dreamier when you were just the nerdy guy in the dorm who could supp up a Commodore computer.

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Time and time again we’ve heard that President-elect Obama’s strongest campaign tactic was his ability to stay connected with his young supporters through social networking sites and text messaging. The informal, “I just-checked my cell-and-Barack-left-me-a-message,” motivated millions of young folks to vote.

This “jacket-less” atmosphere Obama, who loves to randomly hit the basketball court, has created a new kind of transparent and personal pol (check him out on Flickr  lounging in a hotel room and watching the Election returns.)

But for a generation that is easily distracted and requires constant attention, Obama continued appeal rests on keeping Generation Me involved.  His campaign message has already morphed into a new Web site, change.gov.

How long will we ride the wave?

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Fast forward to 2008 when the median age for a first marriage is 26 for women and 28 for men, the oldest it’s ever been, according to yesterday’s USA Today.

Young adults, women especially, are delaying “I do” to rack up degrees and earn that corner office. Others are spooked by marriage for fear of divorcing like their parents — or being forced to do the Chicken Dance at their wedding receptions.

While there’s no ideal age, researchers and experts say people who wait until their late 20s or early 30s to get married have a greater chance of staying together.

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And unlike past elections when the young electorate was split between candidates, 20-something overwhelmingly supported Obama more than 2 to 1.

Steven Samuels, a 21-year-old from New Rochelle, told The Journal News he sees himself in Obama.  Also of mixed race, Samuels said he believes Obama has what it takes to restore the United States reputation in the rest of the world.

Caity Kirschbaum, 20, (pictured right) was undecided until the last minute when she voted for John McCain.

More “20-something rock” stories can be found here, here, and here!

Good thing our generation’s ability to vote isn’t contingent on our understanding of the electoral college.

(The Journal News/Seth Harrison)