Heather A. Horst focuses her approach on how interactions between family members decrease because they spend too much time on the Internet and on their phone. This not only impacts their lives at home, but also outside, as they lack the communication skills that should be learned at home. Parents worry that their children are spending too much time on their computers and mobile devices, rather than outside, interacting in person with friends and family. Some parents feel that they have lost control and that their children have become addicted to social media. Even parents who seem to think they've mastered technology at home don't have much control over it when their kids are elsewhere, whether at a friend's house or at school. The access they have to technology is unlimited. To look at the positive side of this situation, social media also allows families to spend more time interacting together. Akmalla, who spends her free time playing World of Warcraft with her family, states that through the use of technology she is able to spend more time with them (Horst, 2007, p..