Tamra wrote:
> At 06:57 AM 6/15/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >I think this is so cool. I relate to this: my 73 year old mother
> has really
> >latched onto her new PC for sending email to friends.
>
> I too can relate! My husband's grandma got online about 2 months
> ago. We've
> gotten about 10 emails from her since then. She does stained glass, so I
> sent her the URL for that nifty art-glass site that someone posted here
> (because of all the pretty background tiles). She replied that
> she liked the
> site, and was forwarding the URL to a bunch of fellow stained
> glass teachers.
>
> This is amazing, because last time we talked on the phone (about 6 months
> ago) she sounded like a total technophobe. Now she's forwarding email. If
> this keeps up, she'll be starting her own web design company soon!
My little story:
I setup my parents, both in their 60's, with a PC, modem, email and browser
around 10 months ago. I now communicate with them much more frequently
(they're on the East Coast and I'm on the West) than I used to. Not only
because of the necessary handholding as they figured out how to do the
basics, but because of email. When we talked on the phone it would add up
fast and the converstations were usually very long. Now we just send email
back and forth every few days and can keep updated on what's happening
without the long phone calls. My mother has also met a new crowd of people
interested in some of her hobbies. She's now officially in the info-overload
crowd (she discovered listservs), but really is enjoying it.
Jack
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