Users generation digital natives: who they are and how to interact with them
A Life / / December 19, 2019
Their hearts need not change, and fast Internet and ubiquitous Wi-Fi. They learn how to swipe, Tapa and to press the Home before the walk and talk. They - the representatives of generation digital natives.
What is the digital natives?
Digital natives - following the millenialami generation postmillenialy. They are children and adolescents who were born after about 2002-2003. The concept of digital natives (often translated as "digital generation") came up with the American writer Mark Prensky (Marc Prensky). He believes that members of this generation have a special ability to receive and process information, as technology accompanies them from birth.
With Mark Prensky disagree Paul Kirchner (Paul Kirschner), psychologist, professor at the Open University of the Netherlands. He is convinced that our belief in the exceptional quality of digital natives rather harms them, what gives advantage.
Why are scientists so interested in the digital generation?
Development of generations - it is the ups and downs. At least, it was not until 2012, when social scientists have paid attention to straightening the curve youth aspirations. The eternal desire for independence and a penchant for rebellion, still more characteristic and generation millenialov, gradually began to disappear in a generation "digital people." They are not only different spend their free time - they look at the world very differently.
That formed these people?
The global economic crisis that began in 2008. affected postmillenialah who had to grow up in difficult circumstances. The recession is over. From this point there is a significant increase in the number of owners of mobile gadgets. It was at this time fell rush the development of social networks. The first iPhone appeared in 2007, the first iPad - in 2010. These events determined the fate of the digital generation.
As smart phones have changed the life of digital natives?
Smartphones have dramatically changed every aspect of teenage life - from socialization skills to mental health. Where there is a cell tower, teenagers live their own lives.
Today's teenagers are quieter feel at home behind closed doors. They do not tend quickly to become adults, get out into the street to try alcohol or sex.
In 2016, teen pregnancy in the United States decreased by 67% compared to 1991. Nevertheless, this generation shows a higher tendency to suicide than the previous.
Technology development has changed the inner world of teenagers. If earlier the coolest guys going at private parties, which did not know the others, today every step of the popular teen reflected in social networks. Other children see their bright life and experiencing envy and suffering.
Relationships groups of teenagers poured in huskies, network trolling and bullying. The symptoms of depression more likely to have girls, because they are under constant pressure from the adolescent public. While the boys continue to compete like the good old methods of fighting, the girls go to the next level and poison each other on the Web.
Generation of digital natives spends too much time with smartphones in the hands and under the cushions. This adversely affects the quality of sleep that people are sleeping less banal, because even in his sleep sensitively catch notifications from social networks. Lack of sleep and insomnia increase symptoms of depression.
Why is the digital generation representatives are not eager to grow up?
This is not necessary: all of them do the parents. Fifteen-year teenager often behaves like a thirteen year old. Childhood is delayed until the end of high school. Parents, exhausted by fear for their children, the desire to encourage children to stay at home, safe. Those, in turn, do not care where to hang around in the social networks. Despite the fact that parents are often side by side, "digital people" alone, like no other generation.
How they spend their free time digital natives?
With phone. A typical get-together: group of teenagers sitting quietly at a table in a café or on a bench in a large shopping center. Each buried in a smartphone. Impenetrable face, quick movements of fingers. On rare replica strangers meet "Uh-huh," "Come," "Exactly." No time to talk, communication takes place in the social networks and instant messengers.
Number of teenagers meet up with friends every day, in 2015 decreased by 40% compared to 2000.
But is not this should be engaged young people - to meet, hang out and have fun together?
Teenagers conducting free time on the Internet, often feel unhappy than those who meet with your friends in real life. The sad trend: the teenager spends more time on social networks, the more it shows signs of depression.
How do we interact with "digital people"?
It is difficult to say what will be digital natives, when they grow up. They have different habits, preferences, life goals, and beliefs. In the digital generation can not avoid the use of technology and multimedia: Presentations and bright images like them more than the classic books and manuals. But the person has not been canceled. Youth, albeit digital, willingly goes for a charismatic leader.