No email

So true Deedaa I feel your pain

I have a couple of friends who both have computers and do use email now and then. Neither of them seem to text and while one is on facebook but doesn't use it for months on end, the other one doesn't "Do" facebook at all. I get so used to bunging odd bits and pieces on there and messaging people when things crop up and it seems such a palaver to have to start phoning (and probably having to leave a message) or witing a letter about something that is probably just a trivial bit of chat.

Mcem my friend could easily buy herself an IPad but she worries her DH would disapprove of her buying it herself, I know pathetic isn't it ? She has bad arthritis and using an IPad would make her life so much easier.

To be fair her DH is good to her in some respects but not when he thinks his valuable time would be taken up helping her. Some DHs are a pain the the butt I wouldn't have lasted a week with him.

I accept it when people have reached an age and condition where they really cannot cope with or understand technology.

The ones who irritate me are those who could manage very well to use a computer, but just refuse to.

The friend who defeats me is the one who spent her working life in the electronics industry working on the development of software systems for all kinds of equipment but in her retirement has ditched all home information systems and has only a basic phone, text and phoning only.

I don't mind if people want to be tech free but I do find it irritating when they want to use my knowledge and technical equipment when they need something. I wasn't born knowing how to use a computer - I made the effort!

My sister is one such - we tried to persuade her to keep a pc after her partner died but she would not.
I'm sure she would pick it up quickly and would enjoy being in contact with others - but no.

Why, Jalima?
Ana Just thinking of the shock and upset there has been on here recently when posters realised what the implications of being online on a forum like this are!!

ps My TG secretary sends out messages online which is brilliant but there are a few who don't 'embrace technology' and one or two who do but always moan they have been 'left off the list'
(check you emails? let the secretary know?)

nan what's to stop her buying her own if she chooses to, other than the disapproval of a grumpy husband?
Does he disapprove of technology or of women?

We have a friend who has never used a computer or the text function on her mobile which is turned off unless she is about to travel away from home. I do sympathise nankate, each little message to her requires a usually long phone conversation. Our friend often asks me to check things for her using my phone or iPad and complains life is very difficult. She could learn, she chooses not to. I know we all get frustrated with technology at times, I don't do anything complex, but it's really not that hard to manage the basics. Now if the technology didn't exist we'd all manage, but it does and life moves forward. Shame to be left behind.

I'm sorry to hear that you are departing Gagagran but I fully appreciate your annoyance.

My friend's husband will not buy her an Ipad, he is rolling in money, I offered to go and get one with her and set it up but she said it would cause untold trouble at home.

Yes thanks Ana it really is a nuisance but I hold back from complaining to them as some are quite old and I would not want to make them feel uncomfortable.

It's the people who revel in not using modern technology, such as my sister. When she visits from her home in Italy she asks someone at the airport to phone me on their mobile in order that I can collect her from the station If the train is late she has no way of telling me other than borrowing another phone.

Jalima I do agree some folk use their technology so much they miss life going by.

Huge sympathy NanKate - I am in the same position.

I have been President of our WI for the past three years and have one long-term member of the committee who refuses to "do technology". She expects me to phone her with everything as she is not on my committee group e-mail then complains that she is always last to know what's going on.

I am so fed up with her that I have announced that I am resigning from the committee at our AGM in October . She took the wind out of my sails a bit though when she said she was too!

Why, Jalima?

They wouldn't have to use it regularly, but it would make life a lot easier for those who need to contact them such as NanKate!

I am beginning to wonder if they are the ones with more sense NanKate!