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>your network of friends and colleagues makes you download When you're a child typically you learn to use the word "No." If that's not enough then whatever cra
by swiley 5y ago
>your network of friends and colleagues makes you download
When you're a child typically you learn to use the word "No." If that's not enough then whatever crap they want you to install is probably non-free software (otherwise it would already be on sane app stores) so you can use that if you need an excuse.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoMy grandna lived on another continent, and there is only one way to contact her. You child analogy is childish
- michaelmrose 5y agoI bet grandma has email and a phone
- m4rtink 5y agoNot to mention usually also a mailing address.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoNo, grandma does not have an email or even have a concept of an email. 'Grandma'shouls have been a clue that technology literacy of this user is roughly zero. Also neither email nor phone enable me do a video call and inspect something she is struggling with. Sometimes I hate this community of smartasses
- michaelmrose 5y agoMost social media services actually require an email address to set up in the first place. Also consider that it's not the 1980s. If Grandma is 65 then she was born in 1956. When she was 14 the first email was sent. Computers took off when grandma was 24 and became pervasively including being part of most people's working lives during the time frame when grandma was 34-44. This grandma and people older than her represent only 15% of the population and at this point 99% of them have emails. In 10 years. In the next 10-15 years half of grandmas confederates will have passed on further shrinking the population of non email users towards virtual insignificance.