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Bluebelle I am always on the lookout for ageism. (pet hate)

You would Galen [patronising hug] [techsmile]

I think it could be patronising if you look for it to be, but that wasn't my first thought I thought it was funny maybe because it doesn't apply to me because I'm not old, (in my mind) however I have four school friends we meet once a month and not only do they not have a clue with computers but don't text either they all have mobiles 'in case of an emergency' I text them sometimes without thinking and either get something blank off them in triplicate or nothing at all

I liked it!

All the oldies in our family use computers and are really very good. My friend's Dad in his 90th year has just got a new ipad and keeps in touch with the family all over the world.

It made me chuckle - reminded me of trying to explain over the phone to my Dad (then 90) how to send an email attachment. Dad was deaf and not used to technology and kept deleting all that we had achieved so we had to keep starting again - I was yelling down the phone for ages and repeating myself endlessly - my OH was afflicted with a fit of the giggles at this end! It was a bit like a comedy sketch. But hats off to Dad for giving it a go!

I think that our generation of elders have embrace these technologies, but my Dad's generation had a bit of a struggle.

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glamma I find it hard not too. Banning probably looms. Again.

Flower do you think that was written by an older person?

I'm off. Porridge and dd calls.

dollie I am naturally a very straitlaced person.

read this a few yrs ago..loved it lol. I had forgot all about it until now.

I think many things can be seen as patronising, I suppose it depends on how we read them, no body likes being patronised, some days I may feel like some one is patronising me,,then another day it would just wash over me

I can see how it may seem patronising...."a bit like we all wear knotted handkerchiefs here in the north west when we go to Blackpool

I see I have over used the word

my mum (78) has a laptop/ipad/scans/emails/books holiday/makes little videos/prints photos/skypes etc think it was her! that actually sent the verse to me in the first place lol

Unlike our DDs, who did computer studies at school, DH and I are self taught.

I thought it was funny and could have applied to DH at one point

the poem is funny and in my opinion not patronising at all or remotely agism! ..loosen up a bit jinglebellrocks!

BUT! it's OK to laugh at ourselves surely Jingle.

You tell it how it is jings

I apologise if I am once again disturbing Gransnet's apparent new ethos of coziness.

How can it not be patronising?! It implies there is something different about older people actually managing to enjoy technology! Because they are - wait for it - old!!!

I will not accept any form of ageism

Flower

I thought it was funny, too. No point over thinking it! I have a brother who has a computer and only uses it to store photos!!

Perhaps a different sense of humour Petra?

No need to apologise Soutra.

Not at all patronising but very funny and relates greatly to my DDH who is brilliant at processing his photographs and can just about send an email, as long as there are no attachments. Calls on me to 'send' 'forward' etc. Love him to bits.

Once a while ago when in a very very depressed place I started writing an email to myself. Just to get everything out and on paper. Never intended to send it. I sat in the middle of the night pouring out my feelings - it began to sound like a suicide letter. I droned on and on and SUDDENLY I hit some button and it disappeared. I have never found it - goodness knows where it is now. Probably with Grandpa

Funny, but doesn't relate to my experience of older relatives like my uncle who, in his 80s, bought a computer on which he soon developed considerable expertise. I know that if my dear Dad had lived, he would have enjoyed and overcome the challenges of technology. My DS1 and family gave me a Tesco hudle tablet for Christmas and I am having a lot of fun learning the ins and outs. Although a much cheaper tablet, it seems to me to have much the same capability as DS's Nexus 7.

I thought it was great, Soutra. Some people have a sense of humour bypass.

I think most of us relish new technology because we've lived through it's development and can appreciate it more. The young just take it for granted. There are those of course like my DH who just pass stuff to me, or say "Can you just text So and So". But he had a secretary and has never needed to concern himself with such mundane stuff.