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Really? I thought that before I got my first flip phone - resisting the "all important business man" syndrome. But now they are ubiquitous. I don't require a headset 24/7 because I'm not afraid of my own thoughts but I like the convenience of being able to look up and store information with my phone...in addition to the communication benefits.
EVERYONE has a phone - no one looks important because of THAT.
You misunderstood me. Indeed, no one LOOKS important because of that.
For all you "fatfingered" folks, texting was a pain in the whoosie until I discovered that my Samsung Galaxy TracFone has a microphone icon at the bottom of the "enter message" screen. When I touch the icon, I am able to speak my message and it comes up in print on the screen! I can tell it to put in the punctuation I want. The next touch allows me to manually edit any corrections. Hit the send icon and Bob's your uncle!! I've just sent a "text".
Technology keeps getting better. I don't know anyone without some form of e-device, even if they don't know they have it.
My husband and I are only in our early 60's, and we do not have a "smart" anything -- no SmartTV, no SmartPhone, and no IPad Basically, anything invented after about 1995*, we just don't have and don't want. Neither my husband nor I have EVER sent or received a text message.
I am wondering if any of you have done the same thing, and how it has worked out for you. I am particularly interested if any of you know of anyone who does not have a personal computer, and if they are able to get along without it. I suppose I am wondering if anyone knows of someone about 80 years old or older who is still living on their own without ANY modern technology and doing fine. (And, if so, where do they live?)
*We do have a senior "Jitterbug" phone, but we hardly ever use it; we just keep it in our car for emergencies.
My 88-year-old mother does not use a computer or have a smart phone. My brother made her get a basic cell phone after she had an accident a couple of years ago and had trouble getting to a phone to call and ask someone to pick her up (the tow truck driver gave her a ride.)
She doesn't take long trips anymore, but she drives to dialysis three times a week. It's 8 miles each way, and she should have the phone with her just in case. I hope she does! Gonna ask that when I see her Sunday.
We bought her a computer about 10 years ago, but she had little interest in it.
My mother lives in her own house, but my two brothers are living there with her. Both have smart phones, one is computer literate, one is not. This is in northern NJ.
I think it is two very different things to deliberately "call a moratorium" on technology vs. just slowing down adoption of certain technologies that you don't view as necessary for you. The former seems very reactionary and the latter seems more natural as you pick and choose what you want to devote your energies to.
My husband and I are only in our early 60's, and we do not have a "smart" anything -- no SmartTV, no SmartPhone, and no IPad Basically, anything invented after about 1995*, we just don't have and don't want. Neither my husband nor I have EVER sent or received a text message.
I am wondering if any of you have done the same thing, and how it has worked out for you. I am particularly interested if any of you know of anyone who does not have a personal computer, and if they are able to get along without it. I suppose I am wondering if anyone knows of someone about 80 years old or older who is still living on their own without ANY modern technology and doing fine. (And, if so, where do they live?)
*We do have a senior "Jitterbug" phone, but we hardly ever use it; we just keep it in our car for emergencies.
Im 67. I have a flip phone and a tablet for the internet. I just got rid of cable TV, and bought a HD antenna at Target. I don't have smart anything. It's not that I'm against technology. It's more a case of I don't have a life style, that requires the products. That and I don't want the big bills to have such products. There are people in my senior Trailer Park that have nothing. They evidently survive without modern technology. I don't know if they choose to live simply, or they have little income. I say this because a number of these people, do not even use the AC during the hot Florida summers. I have no idea how they survive.
I agree. I think some people are actually fearful of technology, for some reason.
Possibly because it is currently invented by people whose brains are very different from ours.
I'm not a technophobe. I'm retired from working in the tech industry. I have many computers, mostly Macs, two iPads, an old iPhone, etc. But I find that when I buy peripherals, such as the Plantronics BackBeat Fit Bluetooth Headphones I received yesterday, I have many head-scratching moments over the design and function.
It took the two of us to figure out how this device works, how to turn it on and off, how to adjust the volume (an impossibly tiny nub that you hook with a fingernail). The documentation that came with it was singularly unhelpful because they're selling these things to people who already have experience with similar devices: the twenty, thirty and fortysomething gymrats. So the manufacturer assumes you just know.
If you're young and regularly spending a good chunk of your disposable income on tech toys, you're used to the kinds of design compromises that are made in these peripherals. Fortunately, DH found more comprehensive documentation for the device online but I wonder how many other seniors would know how to use Google to find it.
My kids use smartphones and we get their free "hand me ups".
For me, an iPhone 6 is fine. My wife uses the still working fine iPhone 5.
My kids are generous to pass along their old toys.
They can enjoy the newest ones.
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