W8. Task 1. What Is Digital Immigration?

After doing some research on the topic online, one of the main things which I’ve discovered about digital immigration is that goes hand in hand with digital natives, who are almost the opposite of digital immigrants.

I’ve found that the main thing about digital immigration is that it refers to those people who have learned skills when it comes to conducting themselves online, rather than it being something which is natural, as it is for digital natives. A few sources have told me that the line where you become a native or an immigrant is 1980. If you’re born before this you’ve had to learn skills when it comes to new technologies, whereas if you’re born after 1980 you have these skills naturally as a result of being surrounded by them throughout your life.