digital native
Born online, essentially
A digital native is someone who grew up with digital technology—computers, the internet, smartphones—as ordinary features of daily life.
The term typically applies to people born after 1980, who learned to navigate screens and networks from childhood.
Contrasts with digital immigrant, someone who adopted these technologies as an adult: As a digital native, she never knew a world without email.
- tech-savvySkilled with digital tools
- Gen ZPost-millennial demographic cohort
- tabletFlat portable computing device
- touch screenInput surface sensing contact
- screenagerDevice-obsessed young person
social media · viral content · app store · media literacy · technophile · smartphone · connected · online privacy · cyber ethics · millennial · internet · e-learning · always-on · technomaniac · tech-head · screen time · streaming · instant access
- digital societysocial networks, internet, internet culture, online communities, connectivity
- generationsbaby boomers, millennials, Gen Z, Gen X, baby boomer
- tech enthusiaststechie, tech geek, technophile, geek, tech enthusiast
- tech usersearly adopter, innovator, laggard, tech enthusiast, gadget lover
- Gen Z stereotypeszoomer, iPad kid, meme creator, content creator, influencer
- millennialsavocado toast, student debt, student loans, side hustle, adulting
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