To begin with, I’ll ask 2 questions to readers who have children and grandchildren: “Do you think that the digitalization of education, the growth of distance learning, the increase in the number of educational platforms and the parallel decline in the role of the teacher as an individual can further lead to an increase in Internet addiction and social phobia among young people generation?” “How much time a day does your child spend alone with gadgets?” This includes time spent on the educational platform + time playing online games + chatting with classmates and friends, etc. Let me remind you that gaming addiction is as terrible a thing as any other (drug addiction, alcoholism). A person is immersed in virtual life, and it COMPLETELY replaces the real one. Interest in everything that is not related to the game decreases - study, friendship (if it is not tied to the game), child-parent relationships, and the need for food, rest, and communication also decreases. If it is impossible to satisfy the need for play, uncontrollable aggressiveness grows. Trying to gain access to the game, a teenager can demonstratively threaten self-harm, in a fit of rage, break something, throw a tantrum, or raise a hand against a loved one. All over the world and in our country, cases have been recorded when a teenager “removes an obstacle” to the game - his mother, grandmother, who are preventing access to the computer. And yes, there are already tragic outcomes of the confrontation. Okay, let’s not take extreme pathological cases of addiction. I suggest you remember how 20 years ago a child was punished: “You won’t go out into the yard for a week! You are punished!" And now: “You won’t be able to fix a bad grade until you get a smartphone!” You see, what is the difference? Previously, people valued real communication and friendship, but now the same communication and friendship have moved from the real world to the virtual plane. Where are the group yard games: hide and seek, tag, hopscotch, Cossack robbers? Another example: lunch break in the office. How did it go before? People talked during lunch, discussed something, work issues, politics. And, now? Every second person sits with his head buried in his smartphone and at the same time eats food, showing with all his appearance that he is not in the mood to communicate. Now let’s consider the gender issue, more precisely, the interaction between a man and a woman to create a family. Agree, in order to create a couple, a person must feel the need for this couple More precisely, the presence of a partner nearby should satisfy certain human needs. I would like to hope that these are the needs for understanding, friendship, care, tenderness, procreation, that same “Oh, talk?” They may differ for each of us, but we are not talking about the basic ones needs for food, sleep, security, housing, sex. I would like to believe that families are created in the 21st century not for the sake of survival, a roof over their heads, clean socks and a guaranteed dinner. Although, our life is multifaceted and unexpected and we can encounter different variations of needs. Some in the MSK need to “get hooked”, some need to “raise” a child, others dream of breaking out of a marginal family of alcoholics and see no other solution other than marriage. Well, let’s assume that these are still rare exceptions to the general rule. So, a partner, is called upon to satisfy some of our non-material needs. What if the human world is concentrated in a smartphone? Already now you can find almost everything that we are interested in and need there: communication, learning, entertainment, emotions, sex sublimation. I got bored - I wrote to 2-3 friends, someone will respond - they’ll chat, talk, now the need for communication has already been removed, without leaving the apartment. And the smartphone also has all sorts of virtual “assistant” bots that will quickly find and voice the necessary information. And in the apartment there are smart speakers for Alice and Marusya, with whom you can also “communicate”, who will turn on the TV, and tell you the news, and tell you a recipe for a dish, and read a fairy tale to your child while mom is in the kitchen. They have not yet learned how to serve a glass of water, but they HAVE NOT LEARNED THIS YET. Would you say this is how the progress of humanity is manifested? This is regression. Neuroscientists say: over the past few hundred years - +79151116576