Digital Natives or Digital Slaves?

Scollurio
8 min readAug 5, 2019
A young woman putting all her attention into her smartphone, as she walks down the street.
A “Digital Native” engaged in her smartphone. Photo by Sven Mieke on Unsplash

Being a “member” of Generation-Y myself, I look upon the younger folks that came after me, the so called “Digital Natives” and wonder… WHY (you see what I did there?) this is conceived as being something beneficial.

After this short introduction I want to clarify, that I am not fond of labeling whole generations of people. Still, I consider myself part of kind of a “bridge” generation. Where my life…

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Scollurio

Hailing from Austria, a self-employed graphics designer and writer since 2009. Loves long walks in the forest, rain, thoughtful solitude and silly raccoons.