New Era

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Nowadays, many of us now prefer our virtual space even in a public area
where we go out for coffee with our friends, and we have become more
likely to spend time with our phones than chatting. Public spaces have
now become a place where we enter our virtual public space with the
coffee we collect and buy for us. We are there, but our mind is not there.
This process has started to affect our lives in matters such as friendship,
family, romantic relationships. With our increasing communication skills in
the virtual environment, it also allows us to move our existing relationships
to that environment and make friends there, rather than negative
situations such as meeting people around us less, and making friends with
new people.
Especially to do something for them without much of a choice in middleaged
and elderly individuals are seen as an alternative occupation for
which the internet and social media environments, both of these
individuals socialization, both more fun and maybe a better quality play
important roles in daily life, while today's seniors complain the most about
one of the issues that children and young
people; children and young people's time
spent on internet and social networks.
So what does this mean for generation Z
in general and for children in the
younger age group in particular?
Is the perception of "the internet and
social media are bad" that we
constantly hear about with new media
technologiesand that we are now
advising our children is really a big
problem for new generations?