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SCMP Reporter

Don't invade privacy
YouTube can be fun, but it can also be an invasion of privacy, like when my Form Five classmates put up a video of  my friends and I eating  lunch and I was talking  with my mouth full. How embarrassing!
If we use YouTube appropriately, we can all have fun and even benefit from it, while respecting the rights of others.
Candy Cheung, Leung Shek Chee College
Stop wasting  so much food
Hong Kong has a reputation as a food paradise, and a huge variety of food can be found here. Unfortunately, too much of it gets wasted.
Hongkongers throw away nearly 3,310 tonnes of food every day, and it all ends up in landfills. There it rots, releasing harmful gases that cause global warming. It's happening wherever you look - even in schools, when students don't finish the meals provided by suppliers - and particularly during festivals.
We can all do something. For instance, write to the school's food suppliers and tell them  to make smaller portions.
Remember, there are many people in the world who are starving.
Heidi Pang, St Paul's Secondary School
Learn to give  and take at home
I have three sisters, and I am also a girl, so many people call us the 'four golden flowers'. But we are not exactly flowers when we are squabbling.
When we were younger we might argue over how to divide a box of chocolates four ways, and when somebody ended up with less than someone else, the trouble would begin.
We are more mature now and there are fewer squabbles. But when I think back on the conflicts I realise how important it is for a family to learn to give and take. Including our parents, there are six of us. If we don't give and take, we will never be happy.
Bonnie Lai Yuen Yee Christian Alliance S.C. Chan Memorial College
Turn your life  into a beautiful song
We forget sometimes, but life has many phases.
Sometimes it might seem boring and we forget how to enjoy ourselves.
Sometimes it is happy and sometimes it is sad.
Just like a piece of music, life has its high notes and its low notes.
At times it might be like a wistful folksong, and at other times jazzy and adventurous.
Life is a journey of successes and defeats.
The secret is to take them as they come and make the music of your life beautiful. You can do it if you have faith in the composer - yourself.
Janet Chan Yin Yee, Fanling Lutheran Secondary School
Dictionaries vital
Many people - especially those of us who grew up in the digital age - think old-fashioned paper dictionaries are useless. They look things up using the internet and electronic dictionaries.
But I think old-school dictionaries are durable. They also have more details like pronunciations, grammar and example sentences.
Ng Ka-hei, Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College



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