The gen z is not in digital balance. This is a result of a representative survey among different age groups. Accordingly, the boys also experience the negative aspects of their cell phone consumption. There is a simple reason. The generations can also learn from each other here.
Background:
The market research and consulting companySeptember strategy and researchHas one on behalf of Vodafonerepresentative surveyunder 1,680 people. 420 people from the gene Z, the gen y (also: Millenials), the gene X and the boomers were asked about their handling of digital media.
The cell phone is a curse and blessing for the gen z.
The gen z uses social media more than all other generations and also feel the most intensely the negative effects.
According to the survey, 92 percent of the respondents between the ages of 18 and 27 state that they regularly consume social media - but only about 30 percent actually feel better after use.
Nevertheless, this group can also imagine leaving the cell phone at home. The smartphone seems to be very interlinked with her life.
So about 45 percent of them state that they are the most when listening to musicIn harmony with yourself and your life
to feel. This represents an important aspect in your life, which probably requires a smartphone for most.
The 18-BIS 27-year-olds are the least in their digital balance. This means that they feel the most strongest both the negative and the positive aspects of cell phone use.
Social media in particular seems to be a factor that stresses the gen.They feel less balanced when they compare themselves with unrealistic role models.Show investigationsthat social media, especially Instagram, have a perfect, for many,controllable dream world
represent.
In general, 26 percent of the gene Z feel less harmony with herself and your life through too much social media.
The boomers remain more relaxed, but also feel less media competent
The boomers form in the surveyThe opposite side to gen z
: First, the respondents have a much lower problem with comparing with unrealistic role models. Also, only 10 percent do not feel in harmony with themselves due to too much social media use.
Your simple recipe:They generally spend less time with their cell phones or on social media and feel less dependent on them. An advantage for the boomer: Therefore, they also feel less the negative aspects of social media.
The disadvantage for the boomer:While the gene Z in the survey considers 35 percent of their competence in dealing with social media to be very competent, only 14 percent of boomers claim. Throughout generations, your own media literacy is generally considered to be very high.
The 54- to 68-year-olds have fewer problems with their cell phone use, but also feel unsettled. The statementYou can hardly distinguish fake and truth on the internet - that gives me an bad feeling
Appropriate more than the statement that they felt almost dependent on their cell phone.
The boomers can best assess their own screen time from the groups surveyed. But here, too, 28 percent are more or much more than expected on the cell phone. This misjudgment can be seen across all surveyed generations.
Everyone influence cell phones, but our own life influences us more
For all generations, the numbers primarily show the proportion of one's own life they have spent with smartphones. The 54- to 68-year-olds are logically the lowest. In this respect, you simply have the most experience with dealing with your everyday life without cell phones.
And here the survey in turn shows a certain longing under the gen z to be less dependent on their own smartphone. Maybe that's something that the younger ones can learn from the elderly.
However, these findings also represent a ray of hope for the gen z:According to your own information, you benefit significantly more than the other groups for your well -being if you deliberately do without your cell phone and social media.
The generation of 18- to 27-year-olds is most likely to incorporate her own screen time, with the actual time, 62 percent, however, find it too high. In general, the younger ones are more open to strategies such as digital detox, i.e. the conscious omission of the cell phone and other digital media.
Does the survey now show us a society with a permanent-stressed, manual youth and relaxed best agents who read your daily newspaper comfortably in the spring sun? No, generally the gene Z is best according to your own assessment - according to the gen y.
In general, all ages brings thatreal life
Most likely in balance. At the top: spend time in nature. Everyone likes to do that, the gene x, i.e. the 43 - 53 year olds.
