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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
In regards to old people, while some are technologically saavy you have my parents who are scairt of electricity. The effort involved in trying to help them get their photos off their camera to send to someone is unbelievable.
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Some younger people seem to believe that computers were invented no more than 4-5 years ago, and thus that anyone older than them can't really comprehend them. But of course this is nonsense - while my 78-year-old mother isn't exactly "tech savvy," she used a computer at work 20 years ago and knows her way around a computer and the internet.
On the other hand, some of the 20-something contractors my gf hires for her rental business don't have e-mail addresses or own computers. They may or may not have high school diplomas.
But I suspect that education and occupation have more to do with computer literacy than age alone does.