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Situation. A month ago, I bought my grandmother (she is about 70 years old) a tablet. By the way, she is still lively, in a healthy mind and with critical thinking, everything is in order, since in the past she worked as a doctor. As expected, at first she wildly opposed the gift, citing complete satisfaction with television and generally assured that she would not be able to curb the newfangled device due to her age.
My motivation for such a gesture was very simple - I love my grandmother, so I want her to have more options for an interesting pastime, given the fact that she has not left the doorstep of the apartment for a year due to the pandemic. Plus, I wanted her to get access as alternative sources of information and not think only in the paradigm of state propaganda. I taught her how to use YouTube, a browser, installed the messenger and left for about a month.
When I visited finally visited her, I was dumbfounded by the flow of information. And no, unfortunately she did not retell me the Topless videos, which I included to her immediately after installing YouTube. And I didn't even introduce the latest news. I was notoriously doused with a mixture of conspiracy, religion and other sedition. Brewing structured water, granny with might and main initiated me into the true causes of the coronavirus epidemic, apparently created by aliens, Biden's reptilian origin, and also explained who the Nephilim angels are. In her YouTube, the recommendations were appropriate. But this is not the worst thing.
The grandmother learned what online shopping is, could not resist the "lucrative" offers and spent the entire pension on unnecessary nonsense from Alik. She even bought a selfie stick for me. Like, you, this Blokher, will come in handy. I realized that I had made a fatal mistake with this gift. I started scrolling through all the possible scenarios. What's next? Granny will start betting express trains, subscribe to all Yandex subscriptions, or, even worse, will behave to the tricks of scammers. I could not allow this, so I took the tablet under the pretext that it broke. It was hard to look into the sad grandmother's eyes, but all this is for her own good. Now I sit, wondering what to do with all this.
The moral of this story is as follows. Old people on the Internet are an order of magnitude more dangerous than schoolchildren on the darknet. Firstly, they tend to believe everything, and especially conspiracy theories come to them. I suppose that belief in the supernatural increases with age in order to suppress the fear of death and draw a beautiful continuation of the game in my head. At the same time, their faith does not depend in any way on the background. Whether your grandfather is a nuclear scientist or an inveterate atheist, there is a risk that over time he will still believe in all sorts of nonsense. Secondly, they have no experience of surfing the Internet. Therefore, you need to deal with them as with small children. Control each step, explain what is good and what is bad.
As a result, dating an elderly person to the Internet still has more advantages than disadvantages. Everything will depend on you, how competently you organize this acquaintance.
My motivation for such a gesture was very simple - I love my grandmother, so I want her to have more options for an interesting pastime, given the fact that she has not left the doorstep of the apartment for a year due to the pandemic. Plus, I wanted her to get access as alternative sources of information and not think only in the paradigm of state propaganda. I taught her how to use YouTube, a browser, installed the messenger and left for about a month.
When I visited finally visited her, I was dumbfounded by the flow of information. And no, unfortunately she did not retell me the Topless videos, which I included to her immediately after installing YouTube. And I didn't even introduce the latest news. I was notoriously doused with a mixture of conspiracy, religion and other sedition. Brewing structured water, granny with might and main initiated me into the true causes of the coronavirus epidemic, apparently created by aliens, Biden's reptilian origin, and also explained who the Nephilim angels are. In her YouTube, the recommendations were appropriate. But this is not the worst thing.
The grandmother learned what online shopping is, could not resist the "lucrative" offers and spent the entire pension on unnecessary nonsense from Alik. She even bought a selfie stick for me. Like, you, this Blokher, will come in handy. I realized that I had made a fatal mistake with this gift. I started scrolling through all the possible scenarios. What's next? Granny will start betting express trains, subscribe to all Yandex subscriptions, or, even worse, will behave to the tricks of scammers. I could not allow this, so I took the tablet under the pretext that it broke. It was hard to look into the sad grandmother's eyes, but all this is for her own good. Now I sit, wondering what to do with all this.
The moral of this story is as follows. Old people on the Internet are an order of magnitude more dangerous than schoolchildren on the darknet. Firstly, they tend to believe everything, and especially conspiracy theories come to them. I suppose that belief in the supernatural increases with age in order to suppress the fear of death and draw a beautiful continuation of the game in my head. At the same time, their faith does not depend in any way on the background. Whether your grandfather is a nuclear scientist or an inveterate atheist, there is a risk that over time he will still believe in all sorts of nonsense. Secondly, they have no experience of surfing the Internet. Therefore, you need to deal with them as with small children. Control each step, explain what is good and what is bad.
As a result, dating an elderly person to the Internet still has more advantages than disadvantages. Everything will depend on you, how competently you organize this acquaintance.
