So says the Daily Mail, though I don't guarantee that this is not an April Fools' Day joke:
[T]he digitisation of childhood appears to be leading to changes in the bedroom landscape.
Youngsters are increasingly demanding double beds, meaning sales of single beds are dropping, according to retailers.
Experts – such as Frank Furedi, a former professor of sociology at the University of Kent – put it down to youngsters wanting to sprawl out next to their laptop or computer tablet in their rooms, rather than playing outside.
As Furedi explains,
Children live in an increasingly digitalised world. They don't get opportunities to go outside and play in the street or the park like we did when we were children, so the bedroom increasingly becomes their world.
'They now do all their social interaction online, rather than in person as we did, so the place they are based becomes more important to them. They tend to interact through media and technology.
As a child, the bedroom was a place for me to sleep, but I think for today's children, the meaning of a bedroom has changed. It is where they sleep, but it is also where they interact on their laptops and iPhones and iPads.
First it was dudes sitting down to pee so they can keep using their smartphones, now this.