@erik111189
Geriatric Millennial reporting in: nope. My boomer parents are great, and had a fantastic mixture of hands off free roaming and hands on helping. The internet didn’t really factor in until my late teens.

Millennial def raised by the internet here. I used to be on the computer non-stop until my parents got home from work. Then I would weasel my way into more computer time after dinner too. All to work on my Angelfire hosted website that definitely never got any traffic.

Yea, I think the fediverse is on average too old for this to be true of the majority, though there’s plenty of younger people in here.

I’m a millennial-ish. I had a single mom and she was all-in on parenting. Although I’m not sure which part(s) of parenting you’re asking about specifically. Discipline? Instilling values?

Not me, I was a child before the Internet.

oh for sure. Of course, my parents were straight up negligent so it wasnt hard for the internet to win that competition.

I grew up the youngest of 5 children—with all siblings >10 years older—with immigrant parents who were mostly working. So, yea, at times it does feel like the internet raised me

Yup. Born in '84, parents were born in '50 and not really fit to be parents. Basically took care of myself from 11ish onwards and was raised almost entirely by TV and Internet from age 8 and 14 onwards lol.

The internet didn’t really exist when I was growing up, but my own parents didn’t really raise me, either. I did a lot of figuring out on my own.

Your boomer parents are famous for their hands-off approach? That’s impressive in and of itself.

“Zillenial” here and well, maybe? My parents let me use the internet with little-to-no moderation and growing up with very few friends, I would often frequent the internet. Back then, it was when the internet required dial-up so I would either be on the internet on Saturdays or stuck on my computer preparing materials to send to the internet.