Re: Yoohoo, Mommies!


"Karen C in California" <KMC528@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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?

--
Karen C - California
Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com


Okay--I give up. I admit defeat and I will throw in the towel. You win!!!

Here's my concession speech. More power to you and your boring family and
friends.

I'm quite sure if you try you'll find someone else to use as an example of
older people who know nothing except how to be barefoot and pregnant or
sitting on the couch with a beer and a football game on TV and are happy to
stay home and/or drive to a doctors office.


Your quotation saying: 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." is for me over the top and
definitely insulting. Because I (and most of my friends) choose to spend
our time learning and doing and accomplishing seems to be something your
mother either doesn't want to do or is incapable of doing and if she's
happy in her narrow world, good for her. I guess I came from a different
world where gardening and cooking and cleaning isn't enough.

So, there's no way to convince you my way is right or for you to convince me
that my way is wrong.

Incidentally, that article was dated 2004. It's now 4 years later and if
you have enough time on your hands to keep looking find me proper statistics
from 2008. I would love to see them.

Lucille







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    ... 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. ... Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit ...
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    ... It may be a bit higher than the roughly 1-in-5 in my family, but it's still not, as others have stated, a majority of seniors online and my relatives are the minority. ... I have yet to see a statistic proving wrong MY statement that over 65s are the age group "least likely to have a computer". ... Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit ...
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    ... Go back and read Lucille's and Sheena's statements that almost every senior they know is online. ... else's statistics supported my statement that seniors are the age group "least likely to have a computer" that I never got around to looking for my own. ... But my initial statement didn't differentiate between rich white men and poor black women or anything other than by age group. ...
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