2003: MySpace vs. Friendster in a Battle for Digital Natives

MySpace in September 2003 , the month after its launch. The term “digital native” was coined in 2001 by writer and teacher Marc Prensky, who wrote that “our students today are all 'native speakers' of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet.” The rest of us are “digital immigrants,” which Prensky (who was in his mid-50s) defined as “not born into the digital world but have,…