Do you feel bad for seniors who have a hard time with electronic devices?

Many of us seniors embrace technology as it has made life easier (it just takes me a little longer to adjust to newer operating systems and such). Some don't like it, don't have it, and they get along just fine.

If you know he has no right to say things like that to you, then tell him. Just don't fly off at him, no matter how unreasonable he's being. Trust me it happens all the time. You may be completely in the right but that doesn't matter when you end up picking a fight with him over it. You could write him a letter saying exactly what you're thinking. Obviously there's the added possibility that there are some personal issues of his own that you don't know about and he's projecting those feelings towards you. Half the time in these situations it's not even about what it seems to be about. Find out. Also, you should listen to this: dela by johnny clegg It's a fantatic South African song and i dare you not to play it all the time :D It puts you in the greatest mood and that will really help you when you confront your dad. Good Luck! I have the greatest sympathy for you, but just remember one thing. You are lucky to even HAVE a father, so put in the effort to make your relationship a good one. I know this is about you, but just let me tell you something. My parents divorced when i was 3 and by age 10 I realised my dad didn't give a rat's *** about me or my brother so i decided to permanently live with my mum. I don't harbour any resentment at all and the reason is because I don't care, i don't think of him as my father and that's that. But I WISH i had a dad. You have one, so make it happen. Put in that effort even if it should be him who makes the effort, you do it. Because it shows so much maturity to be grateful for what you have and realise it. Good luck pal :)

Yes. My cell phone stopped working last week, but when I took it into my network's local shop, the assistant there restored it instantly. My laser printer works fine but my inkjet keeps telling me mistakenly that I need a new supply of black ink and refuses to function. I have long ago given up on my telex machine. I forgot to save what I was doing on my PC and lost a whole morning's work. When my clothes washer finishes a cycle it refuses to let me open the door, so I have to switch it to any extra spin before the door will open (yet the serviceman says there is nothing wrong with it). My I-pod seems capable of nothing I cannot do better and quicker on my laptop. When I try buying rail tickets over the internet, it adds up my total fare incorrectly or has some other malfunction that I can only remedy by a trip to my local railway station and buying my ticket there. I once filed my tax return electronically (as the only way to get it in by the deadline), and now I have to ask every year before they will send me the paper form. I never remember my PIN, so I have to use a credit card that does not require one, but that means I usually have to explain how to work it any time I buy anything. And I can no longer start my car when the battery is low, as cars are now longer equipped with a crank to turn the engine over.. .

No. I'm getting that way. I used to be up on all the newest gizmos but found it really isn't worth it. I have a TracFone that I pay $10 per month for service and minutes which is plenty; mostly it's for emergencies so I don't need anything fancier. I don't need to play games on the bus, don't need to listen to my tunes all the time, don't need to text anyone. I did take one photo with my TracFone but have never been much of a photographer so have no impetus to use my phone as a camera (I haad digital cameras and video cameras I never used so I gave them away). I have a computer and will replace it when it dies just so I can play games and have email, fill out my tax returns. I don't do much else with my computer anymore. I don't even want cable tv. I know how to read and have a Kindle so I don't have to figure out what to do with all those paper books I used to have stacking up in my house after I'd read them. I don't use my Kindle for anything else so far except for reading books. I'm not interested in about 99.9% of the movies that come out. I am not totally reliant on my gizmos to live my life so if we have a power outage or something, I can get along just fine. Can't say the same for all the younger folks so are so dependent on their gizmos they'd be totally lost and at a loss as to how to live a life, how to speak directly to someone face-to-face, how to just live.

I being a senior citizen had to learn certain new digital skills in my line of work before I retired. The problem with the new stuff is when something new comes out, it has sooooo much other stuff added with it to make it sell better and it's all the extra crap that confuses us older buyers. When I got my first cell phone, all I wanted was a phone to communicate with others. BUT, you have to have an instruction manual with 20 pages just to learn how to use it because all the 'extras' got in the way. We can't have anything with a control knob on it anymore. It has to have very few buttons that have to be pressed in a certain order and we old folks get lost somewhere in the middle before we get to where we want to go. It's not the new stuff that we don't like, it's the complications that go with them. I was a auto technician when the cars changed to electronic control and we got a 'flow chart' to guide us through the digital maze to find problems. If they had flow charts for seniors to use today on all the electronics, they would be more user friendly for us to use. PS My radio in my pickup hasn't been turned off in 2 years! I don't know how to turn it off! I just turn it down, but never off!

Hard to feel sorry for any one that hasn't kept up with the world. It hasn't moved all THAT fast. We had computers in schools and libraries in the late 1960s My kids insisted I buy one in the early 70s. They were taking computer classes in high school in 1971. Phones, and cameras, are actually fairly intuitive to operate. The instructions can be intimidating at first, but there are enough people that understand them, it's usually pretty easy to get help. Most of the time the store where you bought it, will have a pimply faced smart ***, that can show you in minutes.

Can't feel sorry for those that don't utilize the wonderful gadgets we have to make our lives easier and more fulfilling.

I don't feel bad for anyone who doesn't let computers, internet, cellphones, texting, etc... take over like so many have.

I feel sorry for those who have forgotten what it's like to talk face to face, to call someone from home and tell them what your plans are and not have fifty people reading it on a site... I feel sad about those who don't know how to give job interviews and applications.. in person. I feel bad for those who depend on internet... it's not dependable.

I know a person who refuses to use a computer and she is more happy than so many who post about their awful lives on internet. She still does her banking and such.. face to face. She still gets actual receipts ..not just an electronic thing she may not be able to access due to provider of internet having issues.

And I feel bad for those who never send an actual letter or receive one in the mail. I'm not a senior but I believe the younger generation may suffer for all these "conveniences".

I can honestly never understand why seniors have such a hard time with electronic devices because I have always found it easy.

My friend in Florida has a laptop, hardly used, but she won't answer emails because she finds it hard to log on and type, so we have to use the phone, which is awkward sometimes because I always find it easy to chat either by email or instant chat.

No I don`t feel "bad" or sorry for old people that refuse to move on with the times because they condemn modern gadgets without even wanting to see how they work.

I know quite a few people in their 70`s who just say" I`ve managed this far in life without being on the internet and with my old brownie camera so i do`nt need to change my ways now".

They won`t even try and learn how to use anything modern even though I have offered to show them how.

Change gets harder to accept as one grows old.

I was 61 when I got my first computer, and i taught myself how to use it from books and trial and error.

A lot of not wanting to keep up with modern technology by old people is often down to stubbornness and dislike of change. They want the world to stay as it was when they were young.

Yes, there is some amount of frustration in them when trying to work out how to text and send e-mails etc, but Imo its mainly their dislike of new tech and/or change that is the main issue here.

I am a bit guilty of feelings like this myself, as I am reluctant to change to a more update version of windows, because i have got so used to my old version and its familiar. Changing would be almost like starting all over again and may take some time to get to grips with. Jmo.

Yes I do and even those that are yhounger too, lol Actually, there are younger ones that are not too crazy about electronic devices. To me, the worse part is how costly it all is, when it ends up going out of style every year. Shows who owns this system, huh?

I honestly think that while there are certainly some seniors like that, most of them take to new technologies with enthusiasm. Don't forget, computers have been around for many, many years and we kind of grew up with them, babied them along, actually. I worked on my first computer in 1969 and it took up a whole room! But even the people you are talking about, I have a suspicion that they would laugh if they were told you felt bad for them, because they figure they got along without stuff like that for so long, it won't hurt them to go without a little longer. But I do understand where you're coming from. I often imagine my crotchety old stepfather trying to get online or using a smart phone and I can just picture him cussing and screaming and throwing his hands up in the air. If he were still alive, he'd be the person you're talking about.