According to the quiz results, I'm a digital collaborator. I'd say I'm on the cusp of digital collaborator and ambivalent networker, though I probably lean towards the former. While I do spend a large percentage of my life online for work and play, and I'm completely comfortable managing my digital devices, I do find that my digital life can interfere with my actual life at times. For this reason, and when my schedule warrants it, I take breaks to rest my brain and get some fresh air, unobstructed by mobile devices and the internet. Otherwise, I'm heavily dependent on the information I obtain and exchange online.
Pew's coverage of the types of internet users is extensive, covering nearly every type I could ever imagine. The only exception I can think of is the growing number of baby boomers, who are now using social networks like Facebook to interact with family and friends. My mother-in-law doesn't use email or any features on her phone, but she knows her way around Facebook better than a number of people my age. She uses it as a communication tool and an outlet for promoting the non-profit organization she fundraises for.
Overall, I found Pew's study eye-opening. It's difficult, though not impossible, to imagine a group of individuals in the United States, who have no digital connection whatsoever, or those who do have the connection, but prefer to abstain from using it. I also found it interesting that my classification places me in the company of well-to-do males in their late 30s. I'm female and hardly well-to-do.
I think the well-to-do things comes from the $$ cost of all those devices. But yeah, we are not all males in this group!
ReplyDeleteI too noticed that the amount of the off the network people was high. Although I am not a digital collaborator, I still find it hard to believe there are so many people not "plugged in."
ReplyDeleteYou know the demographis are what I questioned mostly about all of the groups. Although I realize the well to do part comes from the cost of the equipment, I also realize that people spend there money on what they think is the most important.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing with me being a digital collaborator is I don't have a facebook page lol. Many of my friends think thay I am not human but 99% of my life is still technolgy. My cell phone is my life some people ask me how can I surf the internet all day and not have a facebook page I simply tell them, "I have better things to do with my life on the internet."Oh and just a thought I really think the baby boomers are doing really good by the internet. My mother is one and she know more things about the internet then I do.
ReplyDeleteI could not survive without the internet, I have no idea how you don't have a facebook page... I have 5 or 6 of them... I have them as jokes work and even my own personal... Facebook would blow match.com out of the water as far as finding a matching person, it just doesn't do "Compatibility" test...
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