I think the oldest Digital Native i know could be my great uncle who is 63, as he made a carreer from building computers and owned his own company from which he is now retired and still cant help being involved with laptops and PC's, i suppose because it is all he has known for such a long time so it is just a second nature to him.
But i think it is interesting becuase he could look at the hard-drive of a computer and fix it somehow manually and/or go into a computer as a user and click away fixing and mending but refuses to use any type of new communicative sites and programmes (accept email) such as skype, facebook and MSN because he claims they are too lazy and pointless as he 'works with the darn things' so refuses to use them in his spare time.
To younger digital natives, spending time online iS their freetime, so he is an intriguing digital native.
I think this is an interesting difference in what people do in their spare time depending on the time they grew up though. E.g. my uncle not agreeing with 'wasting' his time online because he grew up without computers.
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