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Why do you say old people are unable to consume content? They can still read. Many of them are online. Take a look at Facebook.
by imgabe 6y ago
Why do you say old people are unable to consume content? They can still read. Many of them are online. Take a look at Facebook.
- mschuster91 6y agoNot everyone has a broadband Internet connection worth that label or adequate phone service. The mandate to publication in the local newspaper in laws is precisely to account for as wide and barrier-free distribution as possible.
- imgabe 6y agoSure, but that's not a function of being old. Some people can't afford to buy a newspaper every day either, or they live far from town and only go in once in a while.
- alisonkisk 6y agoThat's a 100 year old rule based on the traditional permanence of paper. Not because it's accessible. Old people largely don't have the eyesight to read the newspaper effectively. They aren't combing the classifieds for legal notices.
- mschuster91 6y agoReading a newspaper requires buying the newspaper. Reading an electronic newspaper requires buying a computer or a phone and an Internet subscription, that's orders of magnitude more.
- ghaff 6y agoOr it requires going to the library (in both cases). There are reasonable arguments about what level of friction is acceptable. Certainly no one's buying a newspaper to read public notices. The only thing that probably comes close to universal notification is postal mail to individual households.