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by Daniel Piotrowski

17 May 05:45am

Filed under: Cyber Education, Cyber Security, Elderly, Internet, Seniors, Technology, Viruses

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My grandma will never own a computer.

Eva Woodrow, who turned 101 in December last year, is a member of Facebook. Picture: Quest Newspapers

She has a mobile phone, one with a flip screen that her kids and grandkids have programmed contacts into. Lately she has become a big texter, messaging grandkids to see how they went at footy or whether they want her to pick them up from school.

But the family probably won’t get her a computer. Logic is she doesn’t need or, really, want one. Besides, she’s got plenty of people who are happy to look things up for her. It’d be a challenge to teach her computers - the learning process would be long, the jargon difficult. And there’d be big questions about her security online.

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Keith Hammersmith says:

11:20pm | 17/05/12

So jayson, you just fall back on the “it just sucks” argument again, No actual reason or evidence, Hmm so a company that has made billions worldwide for a product or some dude that says it just sucks, wonder whos opinion is more accurate? If your computer is running slow,… Read more »
Keith Hammersmith says:

11:17pm | 17/05/12

I do use my phone, but when I want to show a dozen pictures from my 2 year olds birthday party to all of our family overseas, its a lot easier to just post those pics on FB rather than texting them individually to everyone… but yeah. If all the… Read more »

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