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My Digital Realization
By kanutewari
Two months ago I was just another Digital Native; clueless about what the term actually meant, the digital dossier I was accumulating and the extent to which my digital identity was expanding online. Like all my other friends, ...
Digital Natives - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives

 This is down as I write, but I read this blog entry the other day. I seem to recall it gave quite a nice account of having realised just how much information is out there, but not letting it impact on the level of online activity. I also rather liked the comment about relishing face to face contact more as a result of spending a lot of time in front of a computer. I am not sure it is a sentiment I always agree with, but in the context described I can concur. Face to face, for me, is a social thing, to share with friends. Fortunately, the people I do business with are amongst those I am happy to regard as friends. But for many business purposes I would still prefer to have email communication (or IM, or forum etc.) because it gives me more time to think things through, and written text has a certain degree of clarity. People, sadly, seldom say what they actually mean in conversation, and even less seldom remember what they said, even moments later. I find that trying, to say the least. So I like a virtual, preferably textual, world. I know others are different.