W9 - Task C: Someone who most threatens the notion of native/immigrant in digital culture

I have previously discussed that I feel that the line between "digital native" and "digital immigrant" isn't quite so clear cut as age.

However I would use my mum's friend Nancy as a great example of someone who threatens the notion of native/immigrant in digital culture. She is 55 yet has an amazing knowledge of computers as she has worked with them since they became accessible to her, around 20 years ago, as she worked in management and found that keeping information on a computer was far more beneficial than keeping mounds of paper which were easily lost.

Nancy knows far more about computers than I do (which is a fair amount) and she started her own company in 1998 based just outside London. She insisted on having all of the latest technology so she could fully embrace the digital age and be at an advantage amongst her competitors. which certainly worked as her company is still going strong today but it would be at a great disadvantage without the sophisticated network she has in place.

I went to visit her office last year where she showed me how her company and the system she has in place works - she showed me endless baffling shortcuts and tricks on Windows that I had no idea about. Therefore while I'm a "native" and she is an "immigrant", our paths certainly cross somewhere in the middle.