The answer to this question is actually––both.
In John Dyer's book, From the Garden to the City, he uses the example of a family who immigrates from Eastern Europe to the U.S. The father speaks English quite well, but it will always be a second language, not his native tongue. His children, having grown up in America, have English as their "native" tongue, and are, in typical teenage fashion, rebelling by refusing to even speak (or learn any further) their father's heart language.
The late Douglas Adams once said that technology can be divided into three categories: (1) everything before you were born is just "stuff," (2) everything invented between birth and the age of thirty is wonderful, and (3) everything invented after you turn thirty will bring about the death of society. (If you've never read Adams, he was a master of satire.) His statement is really about how we all tend to deal with change. The older we get, the less we like change, the more resistant we are to it. And yet, we will make some effort to adapt.
This shows up in communication technology all the time. If you read this blog, you're most likely over 30. And you know how you think about "kids these days and all their texting." Harumph! (You did harumph, didn't you?) The communication technology of the cell phone is native language to young teens, even those in their twenties, but to me, I try to use it as little as possible (I don't like the phone in general, so it's not just cell phones that I have this aversion to). It has created a culture, one that finds texting the fastest, easiest form of communication. Yet, it has caused a divide, of sorts, from those who find texting either confusing or just plain rude and not really in the realm of "real communication."
Technology, in creating culture, and even in bring some division in culture, does not have to be seen as evil, wicked or malicious. It may depend upon how that communication technology has shaped out thinking…and that's a thought for another day.