Importance of the Digital Native

We hear or read the concept of digital native very often, we could easily understand what it refers to (those people who are already born in a world with technology of all kinds and who learn easily and quickly to handle it) but sometimes it is necessary to consider their importance to understand that the digital native is already today a very central social actor of our lives.

The new societies in which communication goes through technology and virtual networks

When we talk about digital natives we are designating those people who were born in the decades, in a world in which everything that has to do with virtual reality already exists and digital. Digital natives could be equated to those people who are born in a territory where a language is spoken and that is the language that is most easily learned. Digital natives are then a phenomenon that has to do with the technological languages ​​that mark our routine and daily life.

The digital native is still a young person today if we take into account that all these changes have not lasted more than twenty or thirty years in massive terms of the entire planet. That is why those people who have been alive for more than three or four decades do not qualify for this classification despite the fact that they have managed to adapt easily to the new forms communicative. The digital native, like someone who learns a language from an early age, possesses a facility that is almost innate or inherent to their condition as a postmodern individual.

Being a digital native in societies where information does not stop

One of the characteristics of the postmodernity It is the overabundance of information and the permanent presence of data, knowledge, etc. This for a person who was not born in the digital age is often difficult to face since the The rhythm of life, the reception of this data and what is done with this information has been different until the present.

On the other hand, a digital native is a person who has the capacity and ability that has allowed him to develop not only tolerance towards the permanent bombardment of information and data but also knows no other A way of communication. In this sense, this can imply a danger since it is not easy for these people to concentrate on something for too long, nor can they absorb vast amounts of information in one go. guy.

However, they have a much easier time communicating via the social networks and the digital world, in addition to the fact that they can quickly learn and understand the objective of each new technique, application or method of communication that arises, being they the addressees of the computer and communications companies today in day.

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