http://estanleyblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/facebooks-changing-face/ Connecting the Senior Community Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:47:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://estanleyblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/facebooks-changing-face/#comment-148 esinc Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:17:39 +0000 http://estanleyblog.wordpress.com/?p=1137#comment-148 Allan very insightful...a wonderful idea to create a board or task force at Isaacs to begin to talk about this resistance and how we can engage more older adults online Allan very insightful…a wonderful idea to create a board or task force at Isaacs to begin to talk about this resistance and how we can engage more older adults online

]]> http://estanleyblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/facebooks-changing-face/#comment-147 Allan Rosteing Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:14:16 +0000 http://estanleyblog.wordpress.com/?p=1137#comment-147 A friend of mine recently, at my suggestion, resisted getting a cell phone. Finally he relented and now uses it like an appendage; even gave up his land phone. Resistance to new technology, seems to me, to be part fear of things new, lack of knowledge, inertia, and not having it as part of our life as youngsters...we might prefer pin ball games, say, to video games or jogging to pilates. Once past the resistance, though, it's full speed ahead. My older brother uses a computer, but wants no part of cell phones, or blogs, or twitters- or facebook, etc. Using myself, as an example: Blueray is probably advanced technology, but it means going from a technology that I know (DVD, DTV, etc.) to one that I know nothing about. We're also wary that the technology is deliberately changed, so that we have to replace stuff we have (analog) with stuff that's gonna cost us money (digital). DVR (Recording for a later time) is superb and convenient. My contemporaries want no part of it. Perhaps if there were meetings to discuss "progress", and the reasons for it, more of us older folks would get on board... A friend of mine recently, at my suggestion, resisted getting a cell phone. Finally he relented and now uses it like an appendage; even gave up his land phone. Resistance to new technology, seems to me, to be part fear of things new, lack of knowledge, inertia, and not having it as part of our life as youngsters…we might prefer pin ball games, say, to video games or jogging to pilates. Once past the resistance, though, it’s full speed ahead. My older brother uses a computer, but wants no part of cell phones, or blogs, or twitters- or facebook, etc. Using myself, as an example: Blueray is probably advanced technology, but it means going from a technology that I know (DVD, DTV, etc.) to one that I know nothing about. We’re also wary that the technology is deliberately changed, so that we have to replace stuff we have (analog) with stuff that’s gonna cost us money (digital). DVR (Recording for a later time) is superb and convenient. My contemporaries want no part of it. Perhaps if there were meetings to discuss “progress”, and the reasons for it, more of us older folks would get on board…

]]> http://estanleyblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/facebooks-changing-face/#comment-146 esinc Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:50:34 +0000 http://estanleyblog.wordpress.com/?p=1137#comment-146 Allan, any thoughts why older adults are reluctant to utlize social networking platforms? Allan, any thoughts why older adults are reluctant to utlize social networking platforms?

]]> http://estanleyblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/facebooks-changing-face/#comment-145 Allan Rosteing Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:54:32 +0000 http://estanleyblog.wordpress.com/?p=1137#comment-145 Facebook is magical: I've just found relatives that I haven't seen in many many years; pictures of children of cousins whom I have NEVER seen; pictures of their friends and spouses and children. I'm a first generation American and thrilled at my age to see scores of my relatives assimilated into the mainstream. Unfortunately the folks my age continue to be reluctant (and those are the ones I'm most interested in!). Facebook is magical: I’ve just found relatives that I haven’t seen in many many years; pictures of children of cousins whom I have NEVER seen; pictures of their friends and spouses and children. I’m a first generation American and thrilled at my age to see scores of my relatives assimilated
into the mainstream. Unfortunately the folks my age continue to be reluctant (and those are the ones I’m most interested in!).

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