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To: madison10

I am a senior and I end up doing all kinds of things on the computer for a couple neighbors who won’t try and won’t learn. They are trapped in the past and content to stay there.

Until they need something.


14 posted on 03/15/2025 4:56:10 PM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest
They are trapped in the past and content to stay there.

Since my Dad died a few years ago, I've been helping my Mom with her finances. She has zero computer skills. My Dad did all the bills and did everything the old fashioned way. They would spend hours handwriting checks, stamping envelopes, or sitting in line or on hold forever to speak to a live person at a bank, a DMV, or Social Security office, etc.

I setup all the bills for my Mom to be paid automatically online. She still thinks it's black magic when she hands me her paper bills and I tell her they are already paid! Once I deposited a check for her by taking a picture of it on my phone and showing her how her bank balance immediately increased by that amount - on a Sunday afternoon. By the expression on her face, you'd think she just got abducted by a flying saucer.

Anyway, my point is that some older people will never become computer literate. They just have no inclination to learn. So hopefully they have somebody they can trust to navigte this world for them.

40 posted on 03/15/2025 6:15:41 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: dforest

My wife. I am her IT server. She simply will not learn.


75 posted on 03/16/2025 10:03:02 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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