Little children are curious. They keep asking questions until they receive an answer. In the use of technology, the young ones dare. In the United Kingdom, one in five children ages five to seven use the internet without parental supervision (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1218581/Children-young-using-internet-parental-supervision.html).
Older people are hesitant. But even the Church was adamant in the use of media. It was only on the 4th of December 1963 through Vatican Council II decree on Social Communication that explicitly stated "Media are God's gifts". As in any gift, we don't benefit unless we use it.
The children and the youth maximize its use. For adults in the third world and the Church leaders ("digital immigrants"), learning the language of internet has just officially started through the first tweet of Pope Benedict XVI on the 12th of December 2012 (http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/12/world/europe/vatican-pope-twitter/).
To be a child again in the field of communications is never too late, although there are always guilt-feelings in grown-ups in the seemingly useless time spent on the internet. But this is the only way to meet the digital natives; they who have been born after the advent of communication's technology.(http://www.techopedia.com/definition/28094/digital-native).
"Keep asking questions until you receive an answer!"
The Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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