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I am only (!) 66, but I would not be able to help you one bit if you asked me how to use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, SnapChat, TikTok, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, NextDoor or any of the other (useless IMHO) waste-of-time and suck-you-down-the-rabbit-hole apps. If I were forced to learn one, it would probably be LinkedIn since that one has the reputation (true or not) of being used by intelligent people to find jobs. The other apps appear to be more of a way to avoid jobs.
My avoidance here is indeed because I don't want to learn those apps, not because I can't. However, my comment on the elderly having trouble with eReaders is still valid. Their trouble may indeed be because they don't want to learn the devices. It's kind of like the Kindle vs. Kobo wars. It's not that any of us are incapable of using the opposing device, it's just that we're not motivated to. But the elderly - many, but not all of them - are still having trouble using eReaders, whatever the reason. And I'll bet that many of us here may not want to move on from an eReader to a newer device in, say, 10 or 20 years (depending on our age now).
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