Comments on the tech view: My mother's generation

HI JULIE:I DON'T APPRECIATE YOU TELLING EVERYONE M...

2009-03-13T12:22:00.000-07:00

HI JULIE:
I DON'T APPRECIATE YOU TELLING EVERYONE MY AGE.
THAT IS DISCRIMATION & IF YOU WERE MY EMPLOYER, I COULD TAKE YOU TO COURT & WIN A LOT OF MONEY. WHAT WRINKLES? YOU DIDN'T MENTION THAT I DO THE BOOKKEEPING & OFFICE WORK ON THE COMPUTER FOR MY PARISH. I DO HAVE A VERY SAVVY COMPUTER SMART CO-WORKER & WHEN I AM STUCK, SHE COMES TO MY RESCUE.

Isn't it wonderful that our parents and elderly po...

2009-03-12T19:25:00.000-07:00

Isn't it wonderful that our parents and elderly population have a desire to learn and be a part of the technology age! They have learned the how to even when they thought they couldn't.

So true. My family is scattered around the globe -...

2009-03-11T19:11:00.000-07:00

So true. My family is scattered around the globe - literally - and my senior citizen parents in rural upstate New York are so tech-resistant that they refused to have an answering machine until 2006. They won't use a phone to call abroad - period. (Safe to say that after no calls for 16 years?) But the computer installed a few years before? Can't live without it and we exchange e-mail daily. My mother has even researched the family genealogy and has written a book on her computer, since then. And (like the previous comment-poster's mother) if the computer breaks, it gets replaced within a day! They've even learned to use a digital camera and mail pictures....

We gave my mother a computer for her 75th birthday...

2009-03-11T14:26:00.000-07:00

We gave my mother a computer for her 75th birthday. She later confided that she couldn't sleep that night--she was so anxious about having received "such an expensive gift" that she "would never use." Today, she is a month away from her 86th birthday. She read the Times on line every day, goes to various other sites and regularly exchanges email with friends, children and grandchildren. (The original computer has, of course, been replaced with an updated version.)