Week Nine - Task 7c: A person who threatens the notion of digital immigrant / native

A person known to you (could be you, but you don't need to admit it!) who most threatens the notion of native/immigrant in digital culture.

A digital native is a young person who was brought up in a technological world. A person I know who threatens this notion the most is someone who is 20 years old, born in 1988, yet is not very ‘technology friendly’. They have basic skills of the internet and has a social networking page, although this is used very rarely, but doesn’t shop online as to them it is a radical concept. They can very basically use a computer, but would rather not and owns a mobile phone and mp3 player, only they are incapable of putting music onto their mp3 player and don’t have any interest in their mobile phone apart form to call and text.

I think that this person most threatens the notion of digital native and digital immigrant as, according to the ideas behind digital nativism, they should be comfortable with digital technology to the point of having knowledge about web 2.0 concepts and using digital technology in their everyday lives. However, this person seldom uses the internet and is just generally not comfortable using technology.