Digital Natives

[MacPerson]

What percentage of FK members are "Digital Natives"

http://news.com.com/Ignoring+%27Gene...html?tag=st_lh


In case nobody knows... let's estimate it by average... everybody takes a guess then we add and divide. That should give us a workable average.

[iForgotMyPassword]

not really want to sound like an unknowing geek... but uhhh whats a digital native?

[MacPerson]

"...each of these individuals average close to 10,000 hours playing video games; more than 200,000 e-mails and instant messages sent and received; nearly 10,000 hours of talking, playing games, and using data on cell phones; more than 20,000 hours spent watching television; almost 500,000 commercials seen--all before they finished college. At most, they’ve logged only 5,000 hours of book reading."

quote from C-Net

If that describes you...you are a "Digital Native"

[el-Ignoramus]

Before I state my status, is being a Digital Native good or bad ??

bah if I could live with being a nerd I can definitely live with being a Native, let's sue the Governement for stealing our sacred BBS and ASCII games

[MacPerson]

If you are one... web land belongs to you... you are it's most natural inhabitant... a native of the web.

[iForgotMyPassword]

Originally posted by MacMatix
If you are one... web land belongs to you... you are it's most natural inhabitant... a native of the web.

hmmm i can say that i'm a native of the web....

Video games... well my madden alone has clocked up 6 months+ of playtime alone...

instant messages, sms, and emails... WAY over 200000

sure i'm a digital native.

[ctranter]

i think i have probably exceeded the reading limit, well i would say i certainly spend more time reading than playing computer games.

did i win?

[argonauta]

i dunno, i love video games, but the last one i played was Mario Bros 3 (NES) and the only pc game i'm good at is sim city.

I do watch a lot of tv, but also try to read a lot (when i'm in the restroom doing number 2 or before i go to bed, or when in the bus).

Do like to learn and programming and geeky stuff, but i try practicing sports and drinking and girls.

So, I don't know what i am. I'm a geek I know that, but a digital native, no way! i like my cellphone simple and easy, just to call and send sms.

My friends think I'm crazy though, because i want to make my fridge and microwave communicate each other via web services

[MacPerson]

I could be wrong here but it looks like all four of you are digital natives... which is good news for FK. A membership list low in digital natives is like a diet low in fresh fruit and vegetables... not a good thing.

The initial question is more to do with the health of FK as a group... not so much the individual members.

One way we can figure that out is like this: The five of us take a guess at what is the average percentage of natives for all of the ACTIVE membership.

The more members taking part... the greater the accuracy of our little research.

Once we get the individual guesses we add them up and divide them by the number of entries.

This exercise may seem a little insignificant but it is as important to FK as a blood test would be to you and I.

[Markp.com]

What? I hate buzz words... blergh! Why do you talk like an information film MacMatix?

[jAQUAN]

may I be the first to say, "who give a sh*t?"

[MacPerson]

Pick a word you like better and I'll be happy to substitute it.

Do you care to place a guess... so we can widen our data base?

I talk like this because I'm not a digital native... this annoying accent you hear is my digital immigrant accent (I arrived in web land in the year 2000)... It will take me years to lose it and even then, I'll never lose it entirely, not because I won't... because I just can't.

[MacPerson]

Answer to JAQUAN: FK and quite a few other interested parties.

This is more important than it looks.

[Markp.com]

Mmmhmmm... sure...

[MacPerson]

I see you are a very senior member, judging from your 9080 entries.

You are much better equipped to give us a well informed guess.

Take a wild guess... under 30% or is it more like over 70%

[PAlexC]

Originally posted by MacMatix
"...each of these individuals average close to 10,000 hours playing video games; more than 200,000 e-mails and instant messages sent and received; nearly 10,000 hours of talking, playing games, and using data on cell phones; more than 20,000 hours spent watching television; almost 500,000 commercials seen--all before they finished college. At most, they’ve logged only 5,000 hours of book reading."

quote from C-Net

If that describes you...you are a "Digital Native"

[MacPerson]

I'm going to take a wild guess here... Alex is second from the right... front row... definitely a native.

Will someone please give me an estimate... let's have some figures...

Or am I dealing with a bunch of Digital Chickens here?

[Markp.com]

I'd say its probably 10,000% but thats just my estimate...

[bvgroote]

MacMatix there is no way for us to know, we dont know any of the people on these forums in real life (apart from a few).

[ctranter]

i think most will be within 2 standard deviations of the mean