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Your casual substitution of "older folks" for "people with no IT knowledge" is ageist ignorance.

ses1984 7y ago
Very old folks can start to lose decision making capabilites. It has nothing to do with IT knowledge. It's why mostly old people fall victim to email and phone scams and refuse to believe the truth even after you show them mountains of evidence. Is that ageism?
- eitland 7y ago
  The ones I know that has lost money or been close to losing money to IT scams has people around my age.
- pauldavis 7y ago
  "Very old" != "older" (folks)
  - ses1984 7y ago
    Pedantry.
nexuist 7y ago
We all know the type of people OP is referring to. Pretending they do not exist does not really make anyone's life easier, especially when the discussion at hand is literally about trying to make their life easier by reducing the possibility of a mistake.
- pauldavis 7y ago
  The people OP is talking about are ones who are not computer literate. Those people can be of any age. There's just no reason at all to related it to age.
  - joncrane 7y ago
    With all due respect, if we were to plot age vs computer literacy, there would be a very high negative correlation.
    - pwinnski 7y ago
      Be that as it may, by jumping ahead, you miss out on the younger computer-illiterate, and alienate the older computer-literate. There is zero benefit to over-generalizing that I can see, and it is very likely to lead to errors.
privateSFacct 7y ago
Or perhaps an overbroad generalization? If you work in adult day health dealing with backblaze personal backup IS in fact beyond the abilities or interest of many of the folks there. Or do you not have personal experience working with the very elderly? The very elderly engineers are more into electronics (physical) and can run rings around younger folks on older electronics (repair / vacuum tube testing etc). But I've not seen high levels of interest in things like Backblaze personal backup API's.
- pauldavis 7y ago
  "Very elderly" != "older" (folks). People of all ages vary in their IT abilities, and IT abilities are obviously what matters in dealing with issues like backup. There's just no reason to bring up age at all.
Stratoscope 7y ago
I'm 67 and did not take offense at the comment.

ses1984 7y ago

Very old folks can start to lose decision making capabilites. It has nothing to do with IT knowledge. It's why mostly old people fall victim to email and phone scams and refuse to believe the truth even after you show them mountains of evidence. Is that ageism?

eitland 7y ago
The ones I know that has lost money or been close to losing money to IT scams has people around my age.
pauldavis 7y ago
"Very old" != "older" (folks)
- ses1984 7y ago
  Pedantry.

nexuist 7y ago

We all know the type of people OP is referring to. Pretending they do not exist does not really make anyone's life easier, especially when the discussion at hand is literally about trying to make their life easier by reducing the possibility of a mistake.

pauldavis 7y ago
The people OP is talking about are ones who are not computer literate. Those people can be of any age. There's just no reason at all to related it to age.
- joncrane 7y ago
  With all due respect, if we were to plot age vs computer literacy, there would be a very high negative correlation.
  - pwinnski 7y ago
    Be that as it may, by jumping ahead, you miss out on the younger computer-illiterate, and alienate the older computer-literate. There is zero benefit to over-generalizing that I can see, and it is very likely to lead to errors.

privateSFacct 7y ago

Or perhaps an overbroad generalization? If you work in adult day health dealing with backblaze personal backup IS in fact beyond the abilities or interest of many of the folks there. Or do you not have personal experience working with the very elderly? The very elderly engineers are more into electronics (physical) and can run rings around younger folks on older electronics (repair / vacuum tube testing etc). But I've not seen high levels of interest in things like Backblaze personal backup API's.

pauldavis 7y ago
"Very elderly" != "older" (folks). People of all ages vary in their IT abilities, and IT abilities are obviously what matters in dealing with issues like backup. There's just no reason to bring up age at all.

Stratoscope 7y ago

I'm 67 and did not take offense at the comment.