Reply to: Oldies get left behind by new technology

[AtW]

I realised the irony as I was typing - but I've never claimed to be consistent or tried to pretend I'm not a hypocrite.

We know - you are a Nu Liebour supporter after all

[Peoplesoft bloke]

What about CUK?

I realised the irony as I was typing - but I've never claimed to be consistent or tried to pretend I'm not a hypocrite.

[Zippy]

What about CUK?

It's a fair cop

[Zippy]

My mum got her first computer a couple of years ago and loves it. She's keen to learn so I encourage her by telling her about all the great things she can do that make her life easier. She's improving fast.

My dad is next. He's just bought a laptop

[AtW]

As for Facebook and Twitter - they seem to be for the self-obsessed wannabe celebs to me.

What about CUK?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

As for Facebook and Twitter - they seem to be for the self-obsessed wannabe celebs to me. I have a Facebook account because a former mate of mine was super evangelistic about it and still insists it's the most marvelous thing ever. He posted recently that he was constructing a bathroom cabinet and would issue hourly updates on Twitter (and he was serious) FFS!

More disturbingly, one of my two other friends on facebook is always posting about what she and her two young daughters are up to - including recently announcing she's off to New York. I, in common with many people who know her know where she lives - I hope she's sure she can trust all these people and anyone/everyone they know too.

I still haven't worked out what Facebook is actually for.

I love technology that has either beauty utility or both - Facebook has neither.

[Amiga500]

We hope that one day he will become interested in woman

We hope that one day he will become a woman.

[Qdos Contractor]

My dad is 68 and totally blind, but completely up to date with technology. He was a programmer with the gas board in the 70s though, so has a background in computers.

My mum (63) finds technology of any sort utterly confusing. She's been using computers for about 10 years now and I still have to write step by step lists with drawings of the space bar and such like.

[the_rangdo]

Games. Nor me although 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 was brill.

Whenever I mention that game everyone looks at me like I'm an alien (or senile)

[Brussels Slumdog]

No people who play computer games are boring. My nephew is 26 plays
games all day and the only job he had was at a call centre.
We hope that one day he will become interested in woman

[xoggoth]

Games. Nor me although 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 was brill.

[xoggoth]

The really old sorts I know are quite handy with this stuff. Apart from the inlaws but that's due to too much inbreeding. Northamptonshire is the British Catskills, most people up there are their own grandchildren.

[Churchill]

My dad is on facebook. He's 67

[Brussels Slumdog]

What about social networking, e.g. facebook and twitter? Is this a generational thing taking off? I must admit this passed me by. Also I don't spend all day texting.

You are either a facebook, twitter person or you are not.This has nothing to do with age. If my Dad was still alive I am sure he would be a facebook fanatic.

[Amiga500]

Nor me. Never been much interested in games & such like.

You old bore.