Digital Immigrant or Native?

George from OCLC mentioned this simple test at the Gaming, Learning & Libraries Symposium during his presentation.

Are you a Digital Immigrant or a Digital Native?

1. Take out your cell phone.
2. Pretend to dial a number.

Did you use... your index finger (Digital Immigrant) or your thumb (Digitial Native)?

I wondered how many in the audience actually keyed in a number versus accessing their phone book functionality and scrolling to a number.

I actually like this "digital immigrant/digital native" concept much better than the whole Baby Boomer, Gen-X, Millennial labels since it shows that people from any generation can become a digital immigrant or embrace the change enough to appear as a digital native. Regardless of generation, people of varying incomes have access to different amounts of technology.