I’m only 24, but this is just priceless. Talk about being given a good talking to, or as is popular today – being pwned. Seriously, you got served, this is one of the better put downs I’ve read in a while :)

For me, the oldies category always started at 50+ and calling 30 somethings IT illiterate is just weird in my opinion.

I understand exactly what he meant by “folks in their thirties and beyond”. I am 41 and I do see people of my age, and younger, struggling with ‘new technology’ such as the internet and mobile phones.

Maybe its different in the states where people may have had more money in the ’70’s and ’80’s, but here in the UK people didn’t have that much money for tech. We weren’t lucky enough to be able to afford ‘proper’ computers like the Apple II. No, we had to make do with stuff like the spectrum (timex in the states?) and other ‘toy’ computers, so many ‘older’ people just don’t get it. Why do you want to play with all these ‘toys’, why not stick to ‘proper’ things like paper and pens?

As for the ones who are even older (those who when I was young I thought were so old that they had once had dinosaurs for pets) some of them don’t get technology at all. There where many scare stories here when I was young about how computers were going to take over the world and they would make the decisions to put everyone out of work. These sort of stories have scared many older people. I even heard one old person say that they won’t use a computer because they get viruses and they don’t know if the flu jab would protect them.

So basically what I am trying to say after this long winded moan is younger people are much more tech savvy than older people. It is nearly impossible to explain to older people here that its not just birds that go ‘tweet’.

Lay off the young kid. He probably has only just learned how to change his nappy so doesn’t understand that back in the ’stone age’ this sort of ‘high tech’ wasn’t even thought of, let alone implemented.

Then again you would have had only one comment at this point if you would have wrote, “folks in their sixties and beyond”. – With due respect to Countess Bedelia

LL – he is referring to 30 and beyond.

I don’t feel old.

I kinda like this Dumenco’s idea.
A constantly updating New York Time e-reader.
Rolling Stone? Or Playboy?

Why stop with magazines and newspapers?
Wouldn’t it be cool if a record label did that?
Or a movie studio?

I’m also a big fan of Simon Dumenco!

I can’t help it, I come from back in the stone age when we had an educational system.

I can’t believe I read that whole thing.

The whole “old folks just don’t get technology” might have been a valid story in the ’80s, but you need to update your assumptions for the new millennium. A 30-year-old today, has grown up their entire life with the personal computer. While 24-year-olds are dreaming of becoming the next internet famous blogger and twitterlebrity , those doddering old fools in their 30s are the ones programming the backends which make the blogs possible.

Seriously, people have been expecting and predicting the death of printed media since back in the days of Compuserve and the WELL. It isn’t some young whipper snapper thing that us old folks (in our 30s) don’t get. Get over yourself.