Re: Yoohoo, Mommies!

lucretia borgia wrote:

leave the insult lie here for all us
seniors that you clearly feel we are pretty damn stupid in our dotage.



I never said "all seniors are stupid". I said that in my experience, the majority of those I know and on my parents' block are not online and have no interest in going online.

The statistics bear me out that 4/5 are not online. Kudos to those who are, but that doesn't change the fact that if 22% of seniors are online, 78% are not, and that 78% is a pretty sizeable majority.

I'm sorry if you feel that the Times and the authors of that study think that seniors who are not online are stupid. I personally think the issue is not stupidity but lack of interest, or, in my mother's words "I don't have time to waste playing on the computer" because she has too many other things to do in real life.

My elderly friend who was given a computer and never used it was extremely active, performing with local musical groups, attending classes, volunteering with the library, putting out newsletters and publicity for his musical groups ... he could get the newsletter out on his manual typewriter without the learning curve required to do it on the computer, which to him seemed more efficient, and therefore, no real reason to use the computer. His elderly friends didn't e-mail, no grandkids to e-mail, not the type to sit around and just surf the Net to fill empty hours, because he didn't have any empty hours. Just why exactly do you think someone who is out of the house from 10 AM to 10 PM every single day, running from meeting to meeting, needs the internet in order to socialize?

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