If I may toss my $0.02 in.....exactly.
My grandmother learned - LEARNED - how to use a computer in her late 70s. This is a lady who would thought flush toilets were a modern marvel of engineering (and, having grown up on a farm with an outhouse, to her, they might as well have been....). Anyhoo, she used Facebook, email, etc, to keep in touch with all of her grandkids who were scattered all over the country. She was the "nexus" for the family, forwarding this photo, or that comment, along.
Technology was a perfect fit for her, particularly as she aged and was unable to travel to see family.
Me? I don't even have a Facebook account. I was on LinkedIn for about 5 minutes, and in that time had every single person who I'd ever sat across from at a meeting beating on my account for job prospects, or resume reviews, or recruiting. Never Mind. I dumped the account, it was too much of a pain.
And nothing frustrates me more than taking WBill Jr. to the playground and watching a couple of dozen adults sit on their butts, twiddling with smart phones. I'm right in the middle of things....pushing swings, flying kites, having a ball. They've not a clue what they're missing.
However, their kids do. I can't tell you the number of them - bunches, every single time - who come to me asking for help. A boost up. A push on the swing. Whatever. I'm willing to oblige because they're just starving for any attention. It's a little sad, but it also makes me focus on what's important for my kid.
“From my perspective, and this is based solely on your posts on this thread, you’re the one with the old attitude.
There’s a word for people who think everything that is modern is good - progressive. There’s also a word for people who wish to preserve the best of the past - conservative. Guess which type of site you’re on.”
Which is it now, lol. First you accuse me of being the one with the old attitude. Then you turn around and say I think everything that is modern is good (which I never said, actually) and that I’m a progressive. Which is it, old attitude, new attitude? No attitude at all? Make up your mind.
I might add, those progressives you state have the attitude that all that is modern is good aren’t the progressives I know about. Most are Luddites, worshipping the earth mother Gaia, the back to the earth movement and one should go live out in the wild. No one other than on foot should be in the national parks, no snowmobiling, no cars (as they assume no one old might want to motor into a park to see sights they can’t see on foot). No fracking (conservatives want fracking), no use of coal, no exporting of natural gas, no use of anything but wind power or solar power, no women wearing makeup and they must be more on the ugly side.
Only electric cars. No guns. Money is evil (unless it is theirs), no foreign intervention or wars. Jobs are an evil necessity, better to be on welfare. Collectivism good, individualism bad. Less of everything for everyone. You don’t need those modern appliances, back to lanterns. Obamacare good, share the wealth (redistribute by taking from those that work) to give to the “poor” by coercion. Rules and regulations for everyone. So, it appears to me that progressives really are not, and conservatives really are in many areas progressive. It all depends on what your definition of “is” is.