Poll of the Day > Showing my Grandma how to use a smartphone was an experience

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She's in her 80's and has been using a flip phone since 2007 and that took a long time for her to comprehend how to use it and now my Mom had to upgrade her phones and got an extra smartphone.

I was trying to show her how to swipe the screen after having the phone locked and she only swiped a tiny bit and not doing anything. Once we got passed that part, I was showing her the basics of just dialing the phone and accessing contacts and she tried swiping everything haha. I think after a couple of days, she started to get the hang of it.

This got me thinking: If I make it to my 80's, will technology be very foreign and uncomprehensible, to me? I'm already feeling that way with all the crazy tech being developed and also building PC's. I catch on to the newest computer hardware, but my knowledge of hardware in the late 90's was a lot easier than it is now. Kids are learning these things at a faster rate and it kinda makes me feel dumb haha.

tl;dr -- Grandma kinda knows the basics of a smartphone and I feel like I'm going to be clueless about tech 50 years in the future.
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Ivalice_VKP posted...

tl;dr -- Grandma kinda knows the basics of a smartphone and I feel like I'm going to be clueless about tech 50 years in the future.

good because that means we're doing it right

#adapt
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One of my goals in life is to stay on top of technology throughout my life.

My grandma actually knows how to use an iPhone better than I do, I never use apple phones.
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what's sad is that it take me about 30 second each time to figure out how to dail out using my smart phone.
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