ABSTRACT
The starting age for the use of social networks is getting earlier, despite the minimum age restrictions of some platforms. A consequence of the digital divide between Natives and Immigrants is that teachers and parents are unfamiliar with the digital worlds of their children, resulting in many parents reporting that their children know more about the Internet than they do. Many Digital Immigrants have taken to expressing themselves digitally with ease; for others, online engagement is an alienating and sometimes frightening experience because it runs contrary to received wisdom about notions of intimacy, privacy, and exposure. The sheer possibilities offered by the online digital world in all its capacities appears to be an open invitation for cultural theorists to apply much loved discourses to it, often presenting the possibilities that it offers as evidence of the postmodern world view.
