Comments on: Are you a Digital Native?

By: The Online Thesis

The Online Thesis — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:10:04 +0000

Nice & Great Site.

By: Are you a Digital Native — JohnSpam

Are you a Digital Native — JohnSpam — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:40:09 +0000

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By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:15:02 +0000

I’m born in ‘75, almost as geeky as you, and so are 50% of my peer friends, at least. But friends of mine that are 5-10 yrs older don’t know what we’re talking about. So I’d say you’ve bad luck in friends/ecosystem

By: Suddenly belonging to the late majority « Gefrierbrand

Suddenly belonging to the late majority « Gefrierbrand — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:28:40 +0000

[...] then still maybe I am not. I feel with John Randall who writes: I’ve had a lifelong love affair with technology and it’s potential for creating change. My age [...]

By: Jayne

Jayne — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:16:21 +0000

John,

Fantastic post… I fall into the same camp (and general age bracket) as you, and remain solidly at the geeky fringe (I work at a technology startup and teach a class in digital studies).

You’ve described the Digital Native “cut-off” quite accurately and eloquently… The strange part is that while we may not be included in the DN culture, it’s mainly those our age bracket who are defining it (at least academically).

By: alex juhasz

alex juhasz — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:19:50 +0000

Perhaps the fault is not to be found in you (or your peers) but in what the technology has yet to provide. Meanwhile, the Natives don’t know any better, they don’t know what they might ask for, what they might be missing.

By: Brit Bohlinger

Brit Bohlinger — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:35:17 +0000

Born in 69 but without kids I feel less under pressure to fit myself into that prestigious category. Has it become chic to call oneself Digital Native, another must-have/be or just one more label in the sphere where attaching icons and memberships signify the extent to which we have been recognised online – doomed to fade away as soon as the digital space is saturated with those born later and presumably less obsessed with being recognised as members of the in-group as they were born into that group?

Perhaps it is a question of degree rather than strict categorisation, after all just another dichotomy, still rather meaningless to those who resist any temptation to make their lives public in blogs, online social networks, wikis etc. Digital nomad, seems to be more appropriate in my case. After all, I was born in offline space…

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:43:33 +0000

Hi John,

Great post. What’s scary here is that I’ve hired someone to coach me about church ministry to digital natives. He told me to “get it” and thats how I found your blog. No coincidence for sure. But more frightening than that is the fact that you are describing the world of my nearly seventeen year old daughter, and here I am a child born of the 60’s trying to figure out the world my kid lives in. I am huanted by reality. Great and informative post. Thanks.

By: John Pallister

John Pallister — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:08:14 +0000

Hi John – As a child of the fifties, I missed the digital native tag by quite some time, but I did enjoy your post and still aspire to be a productive digital imigrant – I must thank your gereration for letting me in!

By: Ismael

Ismael — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:45:51 +0000

Hi John,

You might be a Digital Native, but your closest environment might not.

You might be a Digital Native, but your closest ecosystem lacks the critical mass to be called a Digital Native Ecosystem.

I’m from the 70s (I missed the 80s by some years, lucky me but I’m either a Digital Native or quite a well integrated Digital Immigrant.

As you, I’m one of the geekest around.

We maybe just have to either wait or find our critical mass outside our first circle of acquaintances. But we will, because it’s just this that’ll make of us _real_ Digital Natives.

At least, I guess so.