In chapter 7 of Its Complicated by Dana Boyd, the main topic being addressed is how closely connected today’s youth is with technology, more so the media. Two terms that are used within this chapter are “digital natives” and “digital immigrants.” A digital native is someone who was born in an era where advanced technology and media as always been around for them. The natives are also more capable of understanding new technologies. Where as on the other hand, a digital immigrant is someone who is an adult , maybe from a matured age group, that was born before the new technologies and would most likely have a harder time understanding them.
Personally, I would definitely agree that kids these days are digital natives to media just based off how young you will see a child working an iPad. I myself could be considered part of the digital natives because of the amount of technology that was around and the new technologies that were being produced. I also would agree that digital immigrants do seem to have a harder time understanding new technology, however, depending on how old someone is can determine how much faster they would be able to understand but would probably not be fully updated or involved most new technology activities.
Boyd also brought attention to the reason why the youth of today is more technology savvy is due to the youth basically creating the next new and best thing within and for the media/social media. This seems like a valid statement in my opinion because since the youth are the ones understanding the most recent and new technology, they would be the ones to repost, retweet, or upload content that they agree is what the interest is at that time.
