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Go to a school and an old folks house. Ask them to create an instagram account, take a picture, crop it, and post it online. Would you really try to defend the

• PaulHoule 8y ago
  That's instagram, which does lean young. My aunt Lucy in a nursing home has a phone and thinks that Facebook is the bee's knees -- she can keep up with what her family is up to. I get many "This email was sent with an iPhone" messages from oldsters. Nothing gets talked about in breathless tones in the New York Times (e.g. Apple products) unless it appeals to the 50+ set. Note how "fall detection" is a selling point of the new iWatch. If you'd been around long enough you'd notice that selling things to oldsters based on recapturing their youth or vicariously enjoying the youth of youngsters has been a big business for a long time. It had a lot to do with how baby boomers were celebrated in the 1960s (e.g. hippies did not read the New York Times, but oldsters did) Eventually boomers became the target audience and the breathless talk was about millennials. Gen X got skipped mercifully because there were too few of us to move the needle.
  • sametmax 8y ago
    Instagram is just an example. Make them them film a video and share it. Order a Uber or a delivroo. Drive with waze. Book their train/plan ticket. Search for an amazon product. Sure, some 65+ people manage. Some. Most people under 40 manage, and more.