W9. Task b. Youngest digital immigrant

b) The youngest digital immigrant you know.

The youngest digital immigrant I know is a friend from home Natasha. Although she tries to use technology to communicate, like on facebook or on MSN, she doesn’t quite have the same attitude towards it as I think the rest of us digital natives do.

For instance, if something isn’t working the first way she attempts to do it, like trying to change her display picture on facebook, or forwarding an e-mail to me, and she cannot think of any other way to do it, as she will only use the one way she can remember doing it before. If it isn’t working for some reason, she will not attempt to find out why and fix it, instead she’ll just give up and not think of finding an alternative way to do what she wants.

However, I think that the main thing which makes me think she is a digital immigrant is her attitude towards technology. Whilst I will happily sit on facebook or MSN and have a casual conversation with friends about nothing in particular, she will only use these mediums when she has something specific to say or ask, and when she has got this information she’ll log out. In this way I think she sees technology as there for when she needs it, whereas I will use technology as more ingrained in my everyday life, rather than an additional extra.