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08/23/2006 05:05:38 PM · #1 |
I just pm'd a user because I wanted to use one of her pictures as a background on a computer. As I looked at her profile I noticed her age. She is a senior and I thought wow this is really cool. And it made me wonder how many seniors are members. I love the fact that they are using technology and seem to not fear it. We seem to take time to praise the under 18 crowd, as we should, but we also need to notice our elders give them their props too.
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08/23/2006 05:07:26 PM · #2 |
| Does 40 classify as an old fart? :) |
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08/23/2006 05:08:44 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by jkw2466:
Does 40 classify as an old fart? :) |
Yes... |
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08/23/2006 05:11:18 PM · #4 |
I do not consider anything under 75 a senior.. =)
but Old farts can be 40ish..
I consider myself a middle aged hippie.. |
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08/23/2006 05:37:10 PM · #5 |
I have an email system in place that notifies customers when services are due on their vehicles and also does a follow-up thank you after the service with a customer satisfaction survey attached.
I did a database check a few months back, and out of 220 customers using my system, 89 are seniors/retired, really seem pretty up on the technology and even make their appointments online.
Grandpa & Grandmas now have an easier way to talk to grandchildren, get pictures etc. and many senior centers strongly encourage PC use as a hobby and learning tool. (I've asked them). I was also surprised how many seniors have been using a PC for 20+ years.
Heck my Mom has been using a PC longer than I have, and I'm almost 50. |
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08/23/2006 05:39:22 PM · #6 |
You aren't senior until you're back in diapers AND having to drink your meals.
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08/23/2006 05:39:26 PM · #7 |
My Grandma, in her upper 70s, isn't a photographer or a member, but we set her up with a computer a couple years ago and now she drives the grandkids crazy on AIM. When she broke her hand last year, her biggest complaint was that it kept her from typing online. Haha!
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08/23/2006 05:48:47 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by jkw2466:
Does 40 classify as an old fart? :) |
So you are calling me an old fart?? Gee thanks!
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08/23/2006 09:34:09 PM · #9 |
AARP keeps sending me stuff and I refuse to enroll.
I prefer "middle aged." neener neener neeeeener |
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08/23/2006 09:42:30 PM · #10 |
I'd type a longer reply, but my arthritis is acting up....
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08/23/2006 09:47:44 PM · #11 |
| oh please count me in too, I hit the big 5-0 this year and became a grandmother for the first time.... oh and AARP is bugging me too! |
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08/23/2006 09:53:11 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Judi:
Originally posted by jkw2466:
Does 40 classify as an old fart? :) |
So you are calling me an old fart?? Gee thanks! |
Don't worry Judi, I don't think you look a day over 38. ;-)
Seriously though, I would've never guessed your age had I not just looked at it in your profile. I seriously thought you were about 28. |
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08/23/2006 09:57:03 PM · #13 |
Seniors. Oh yes, I am one. And I take every discount I can take. Every once in a while "they" card me, and boy do I chuckle over that!
But think about it. Personal computers have been around since the beginning of the '80s.
My first computer was an Apple II+, upgraded to 64K (from 32K - yippee) I could, and did, use a spreadsheet called Visicalc, a primative word processing program and a sort of paint program for which I bought a light pen and made changes pixel by pixel.
I brought my office into the computer age (my boss only wanted them for controlling inventory & billing) and I've kept up by working my way through any number of word processing and other programs. Anybody remember Wordstar?
Always with the caveat that I'm a User, not a Programmer. Back in the early '80s they promised computers would become "transparent to the user" ah, "any day now" in the immortal words of Jerry Pournelle.
So, you might be surprised. Some of us old folk really do know how to use a computer.
Our fingers may atrophy (sorry about that arthritis, Bear Music) but our brains don't. Right, Bear Music?
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08/23/2006 10:00:17 PM · #14 |
| are as old as you think you are, or looks old, wich ever applies to a given situation. =) |
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08/23/2006 10:14:46 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Judi:
Originally posted by jkw2466:
Does 40 classify as an old fart? :) |
So you are calling me an old fart?? Gee thanks! |
No...No...No.....I just asked if I was an old fart. You wear it well girl. |
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08/23/2006 10:17:26 PM · #16 |
| My mom is 86, and one of the things she uses her computer for is to exchanged emails with my uncle.... who is two weeks off of 95. |
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08/23/2006 10:17:29 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
Our fingers may atrophy (sorry about that arthritis, Bear Music) but our brains don't. Right, Bear Music? |
I'm not so sure about that... It seems to me that I am not as sharp on the ol' short-term memory as I used to be...
R.
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08/23/2006 10:18:49 PM · #18 |
I'm a youngun, so I gotta love the younger crowd. But the oldies are cool too! Sherpet was extremely kind to me when I first started on this site. And Bear_Music has always been someone who gives suggestions and answers questions in forums for me and many, many others. =D
Message edited by author 2006-08-23 22:20:01. |
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08/23/2006 10:47:50 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by sfalice:
Our fingers may atrophy (sorry about that arthritis, Bear Music) but our brains don't. Right, Bear Music? |
I'm not so sure about that... It seems to me that I am not as sharp on the ol' short-term memory as I used to be...
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Heh, heh. How can you be sure!
;>) |
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08/23/2006 10:59:01 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by sfalice:
Our fingers may atrophy (sorry about that arthritis, Bear Music) but our brains don't. Right, Bear Music? |
I'm not so sure about that... It seems to me that I am not as sharp on the ol' short-term memory as I used to be...
R. |
Heh, heh. How can you be sure!
;>) |
When the dinner guests show up just as I'm making a tuna sammich?
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08/23/2006 11:01:14 PM · #21 |
| "sammich" is something I haven't heard in a long time....thanks for the memory. My grandfather use to say that all the time. Love it. |
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08/23/2006 11:11:20 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by sfalice:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
[quote=sfalice] |
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When the dinner guests show up just as I'm making a tuna sammich?
R. |
Oh, yeah. That can be a strong hint!
;>) |
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08/24/2006 11:52:08 PM · #23 |
used properly it would be a "mater sammich" and only if the juice is dripping down your arm.. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Originally posted by jkw2466:
"sammich" is something I haven't heard in a long time....thanks for the memory. My grandfather use to say that all the time. Love it. |
btw I am 49 and the gramma of 2
that one is the center decided to start a little earlier than all of hoped for but as they say "sh!t happens".
Message edited by author 2006-08-24 23:55:22.
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08/25/2006 12:10:30 AM · #24 |
I'm going to start getting the "Seniors Tuesdays" discounts in a year and a couple months :)
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08/25/2006 12:16:17 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by ursula:
I'm going to start getting the "Seniors Tuesdays" discounts in a year and a couple months :) |
Great! And then start agitating for Wednesdays too!
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