(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
Alexandra Samuel (b. 1971) is online 10 hours a day and author of the book Work Smarter with Social Media (2015). In an article on Daily JStor in 2017, she led a Copernican revolution by turning the whole issue of generation iGen's problems on its head: After the iPhone came in 2007, there was a significant increase in parents Internet use. This led to poorer contact with the children. In 2006, only 6 percent of Americans aged 30 – 49 years were connected to social networks. In 2009 the number had increased to 44 percent.
Through increased internet use, parents became more distant and more distracted. They responded more slowly and gave the children less attention. Here is the explanation for iGen maturing later: They are not stimulated to independence, Samuel claims. Teaching them to use the off button is not a solution: Young people need digital mentors who teach them how to deal with the web and engage with them. In an article in The Atlantic in 2015, Samuel documented that the children of those who want limit online use, gets problems: The likelihood of watching porn is twice as high, they are more likely to post gross or hateful statements, and are three times more likely to pretend to be another person on the web. A no to the digital world makes problem behavior more likely when children first come online. Admonitions about sexual abstinence do not prevent pregnancy among teenagers either, concludes Samuel.
See also the main case iGeneration
