I would not quite consider myself a "digital native." I feel like the digital scene exploded right in the middle of my life. I remember using the old computers in the school's computer lab up until middle school, when my family first got a desktop with internet. That was still in the days of modems and slow internet connections. It was mostly used for school work and later in high school, I spent an awful lot of time on AIM while doing homework. Right around that time I also began to download music. That was a huge deal for me because I was able to have a infinite collection of music, from the past and present. That seemed amazing, until YouTube came along. All of a sudden I had images to go along with all that music, even movies and just a myriad of people's recordings all at my fingertips. I can recall a time without it, even a time when I was not even allowed to join Facebook.
Nowadays I use the internet far more frequently than I ever had in my life before. There's tons of emails to check and respond to, Facebook statuses to update, many papers and class assignments to complete, and of course YouTube videos to watch. Even with all these things going on, I still try not to spend more than 20 or 30 minutes online at a time. It's so easy to get sucked in on some of my favorite sites such as www.gofugyourself.com or even reading newspapers online. At the end of the day though, I truly love the internet.
