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So, do YOU know anyone who DOESN'T have a computer, smart phone or internet access?

Elderly parents perhaps.

1 posted on 07/30/2015 8:09:03 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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My 82 year old mother is online every day. She uses Facebook to keep in touch with family in her homeland.

My 75 year old in-laws are online and have smartphones.

I have a 78 year old uncle who texts me weekly using his iPhone.


2 posted on 07/30/2015 8:12:40 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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Mom won’t go into the same room with dad’s computer.
Dad’s always forwarding me stupid junk mail.


3 posted on 07/30/2015 8:14:41 AM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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My parents are never online. My dad (84) started a facebook account but deleted after two days.

I prefer an actual newspaper. But I have to admit that I get most of my news from FR.


4 posted on 07/30/2015 8:16:21 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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When tv was at it’s height in say the 1970s. What percentage of households didn’t have a set?


5 posted on 07/30/2015 8:19:26 AM PDT by xp38
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I thought I read somewhere that in 1992, about the time algore invented the internet, there were only about 100,000 or fewer users.


8 posted on 07/30/2015 8:28:56 AM PDT by umgud
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The report says elderly people, who face both economic and physical limitations, can't be bothered, are most likely to be offline

My 90-something year old grandmother is to busy watching baseball and playing cards with her friends. 70-something father just doesn't care - too busy puttering around the house, taking walks in the woods, etc. Some people still just like to live in the real world more than this one. I'm starting to think they are on to something...

9 posted on 07/30/2015 8:29:47 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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So? Think of all the time they save.

10 posted on 07/30/2015 8:31:15 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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15% are uncovered by internet care.

Next up, the FCC will require all Americans to get internet care coverage requiring a new law, the ICA or Internet Care Act in which, if you like your Internet Service Provider (ISP), you can keep your ISP.

It should save every family $2,500 each year.

Though you will be required to cover Internet Explorer Abortion services.


11 posted on 07/30/2015 8:32:09 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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Wow. That many people in America actually have lives? Interesting. Now excuse me while I resume painting that bedroom.


12 posted on 07/30/2015 8:54:32 AM PDT by LouAvul (There is no more GOP. There is RAT, and RAT lite.)
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My father-in-law has never been online, or read an email, unless someone printed it out for him.

When my mother-in-law died, he gave away the computer.

He has a “dumb” cell phone for phone calls only.


13 posted on 07/30/2015 9:10:33 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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