Digital Natives, Part 1

So I just got finished reading Prensky's article about Digital Natives (I've decided to do part 2 in a separate post because it talks about a different branch that needs to be addressed separately).

I hate to admit, but I absolutely did not think of this.  It's true, there really is a communicative gap between the digital generation and the pre-digital generation.

I'm not sure which category I fall under...as I read this, I spent the whole time trying to identify if I was pre-digital or digital.  Technically, as a child I grew up with DOS computers, and was first exposed to the internet in middle school.  You would think that would make me a digital immigrant, since I wasn't exactly born into the generation...

Yet all the lingo that was described by Prensky in her article indicates that I'm more native than immigrant...I was a ravenous book reader as a child, but when video games came out I latched onto them right away, and I've absorbed the digital way of life easily and quickly into my lifestyle.  The internet became my primary source for research and information, and while I was a late bloomer I did eventually absorb the social aspects of the digital age as well.  So I ACT like a native...but my history places me as an immigrant.  This begs the question, how accurate are Prensky's standards?  What about the people who completely adopted the lifestyle halfway in, who live by it and have forgotten the old ways?  Are we still immigrants?  Is there a better way to determine who belongs to the digital age, and who belongs to the pre-digital?  IT's something to think about.