Senior ages broke the "isolation barrier" with technology!

When the technological invasion of our societies began, it was natural for young people to accept them as those concerned with everything new, and those wishing to experience and discover worlds that are appropriate to the development of their time and the progress of science around them, and in return it seemed very natural that the elderly would meet this technology with rejection and condemnation, then reluctantly accepting it as itComfortable and facilitate the burdens of life, but the beautiful thing is that the elderly people above the seventy have proven a wonderful flexibility in dealing with technology, especially the character, including computers, tablets and advanced generations of mobiles.

Updates exhaust me

Mr. Hakam Ba Yazid (70 years) regularly hesitates to a computer training center, but not to learn the principles of computer as it may come to mind, but to learn to use the program (Photoshop) we met and asked him what he does;He said: “Will it be panting behind the endless updates for the programs.” He explained that he works at the center of an engineering consulting and wants to prove to his superiors that he is not less than those who work in the center, and is able to understand modern tools.

He added: “I trained myself to use the engineering Al -Fadad program, and since the computer entered our company, and I have been dealing with him with insistence, and thanks to God, I have succeeded in entering this world without problems and used the Internet with high skill», stressing that illiteracy is “illiteracy of the brain”..Active your brain wipes out your illiteracy in anything and everything.

Surprise the application

As for Mr. Mohamed Mesbah Hassan -a retired teacher (71 years);He talks about his relationship with technology, and he said: When I started using the mobile for the first time in about fifteen years, I thought I was practicing the summit of urbanization, and although I deal with the device in the narrowest borders, I send and receive calls and messages only, but my children were keen to renew the device for me allA period until they surprised me a few days ago by bringing the tablet system (iPad), and the truth is that I laughed at the beginning, because I did not browse the Internet on my mobile or the computers of the house, and I did not use any conversations programs in the previous communication devices, and I do not care much about the complexities of technology, and the modern options that all carryA new device, but I began to get to know the Internet world, and learn how to enter social media through my new device, which I find interesting, and I learn every day a new matter, noting that I am now following the bulletins via my tablet device and also the series.

The legend of "Travian"

Haya Abdullah said that my mother (73 years) is a marvel in the use of computer and the Internet and she is fond of the game "Travian", and she has prayers and tours and her side fears her strength in this game that plays directly on the Internet with competitors from all over the world, noting that her mother isShe learned to use the computer and mastered this game completely, as it continues through the (Skype) conversation program with my brother in America with voice and image, and she learned how to benefit from the computer fully, and the most beautiful is perhaps better than we young people do with modern devices.

password

"Abu Ali" - a secretary of one of the personalities, and a man who exceeded the seventy years with many years - yet he is the most trusted person for his boss;So he is keen to use the computer and learn his skills to keep pace with his time and record all his president's data and transactions;So he invented his own mechanism for himself. وقال:»لا أتعامل إلاّ مع مهندس الكترونيات واحد فقط أعرفه، وأتعامل معه منذ أكثر من عشرين عاماً، وعندما أشتري جهازاً جديداً؛ فإن «إيقونات» بعينها لابد أن تكون أمامي على سطح المكتب حتى أتمكن من الوصول إلى مصادرها بسهولة، و منها الصحف المفضلة، وموقع الأسهم، ومستند «نصي نمطي»؛ للتعامل مع الفواتير والداخل والخارج من المصروفات، وهذه أمور لا أسمح لأحد أن يطلع عليها؛ لذا فأنا أضع لجهازي password أغيرها كل فترة.

do not waste my time

But as our former guests accept modern technology with passion and learn their skills perfectly;There are those who reject the matter altogether and in detail, such as Uncle "Abdel -Hadi", the owner of the grocery, who has no name from his name.He is always nervous and almost extends his stick for every child who buys a candy from him or shakes it in the type of ice cream he prefers, and when we asked him about his relationship with the computer, he smiled sarcastically, and said: “By God, you are lost your time..»!

Patience and insistence

On the other hand, we went to a number of training centers on applications and use of computers;The result was almost identical, as the coach, Medhat Ismail, says in one of the training centers: about 20% of our customers are the elderly over sixty -five years, and all of them come to train on the simple principles of using the computer starting with how the device opens, how the program opens, especially the writing program"Word", indicating that they are slow to respond and learn and need great patience to learn, and they suffer a lot from using the keyboard, but what distinguishes them is complete insistence on learning and accuracy in preserving the appointments;They come before others and do not miss one day, as they ask in every small and large and insist on applying what they learn in the center in their homes;So they must be given a home duty every time in order to develop their skills.

A weak turnout

In one of the centers for selling computers, we met the sales manager, "Muhammad Al -Julhi", and stated that the number of elderly buyers is very small compared to young people, and they may constitute about 7% of the total shoppers..

He said: “Most of them come to buy computers for their children or their grandchildren, and they do not have them in particular, but in a previous period when the stocks witnessed a great boom, and a wide turnout was the elderly, we are permanent customers to buy the devices to follow up on the stock indicators on them, and this wave was completely afraid, and who comesFrom them to buy a special device that requests specifications that can be easily handled ».