Digital technology and its digital means

Abstract

This research attempts to reveal the threats of digital technology and the most important changes that have occurred in the family structure. Digital technology has had a significant impact on the relationships between individuals within the family. It has started to affect family ties to a large extent. There is no doubt that the emergence of modern technological means of communication has created a gap in the family and it resulted different behaviors whether positive or negative. It led to widening the gap and conflict between parents and children and it has weakened family relationships between them. Children has become more involved with various means of communication, starting from the first appearance of the internet and means of browsing to the emergence of means of communication such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and communication and chat programs via phone such as WhatsApp, Viber... and others. These technological turns produced new interactions in the family relationships and it led to strengthening the social isolation, disharmony among its members, alienation, and autism. The values of family communication have been vanished. Children replaced their parents with the internet as a source of information. They lost family bonding and substituted it with chatting with strangers to the point of feeling alienated at the level of one family.  In addition to the emergence of customs that are different from the ones that they used to follow.