As children, our parents were our guides in life – right? Or at least, according to the ideal towards which we all strive? Today, however, it sometimes seems that the children are the guides, while we parents are strangers in a foreign land. I’m talking, of course, about the internet, about children on the internet, and about children and parents on the internet. (My 6-years-old-girl created a computer) The traditional role of parents as a kind of intermediary between the world and young, “toolbox-less” children, has in recent years undergone a rapid transformation, with the percentage of children and teenagers using the internet increasing by 600 percent each year, and where the last survey showed more web activity among children (under age 16) than among adults, with Facebook accounting for 54.7% of browsing in the US among children aged 12 to 17. Today, we suddenly find ourselves in a troubling reversal of roles, where instead of turning to their parents for explanations, young web surfers will usually choose to look for their answers on Google instead. Actually, for kids there isn’t even an “internet” anymore; there is no “browser” – only Google, and Facebook, and a way to reach everything. [...]
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