My Cyberspace life
Cyberspace has changed life as we knew about 30 years ago. Seniors my age started working on computers, then trying to find the grandchildren, then stumbling into a whole lot more. My younger sister won’t text or use a computer and many are like her. I did not want to be like the image in my mind of grandpa hollering into the telephone. My older brother used computers at work, retired at 56 and computers and cyberspace took over his whole life 24/7. He slept by the computer and got up when he heard a beep. I am not my sister or my brother, I am in between.
I read about computers and an “information highway” and was so excited to get on that highway, I would become totally frustrated within minutes by my struggles and failures to navigate to a destination, but I was hooked. I had to work on a computer, but accessing information was a dream come true after tech advances, and my learning patience and some skills. Now I am discovering the social sites like Senior Chatters and facebook and I also experienced a dose of what addicted and seduced my brother. My brother loved to work hard and be active, and for him to sit at a computer and not leave the house for days defied any understanding of such behavior 15 years ago. My sister lives alone out in the country and is a retired English teacher, and my mind boggles on what she is missing but the cyberspace world is shunned by her. I used a computer very wisely for work and learning and then clumsily and crazily I was on facebook learning as a baby learns to walk. I checked out a few other social sites likes a fly buzzing and landing, but like a fly I would go silent and quit. Then I found Senior Chatters and found socialization unimagined. I also learned about the seduction and addiction possible. Then I learned to weave my real life and cyberspace life together like a teenager does when they leave the parents and make a separate life.I write this blog because I and my family are fairly typical in this 30 years of the information age and a cyberspace world. We have our shunners, our junkies, and everything in between using the computers for one or more reasons. I use the computer for business, information and now, WOW, for socialization and I do it reasonably wisely, I stayed connected with phones and now I have added computers, but I will never be all that comfortable with this darn computer contraption, but my cyberspace life is a much richer brew and I consume and enjoy and the readers of this blog know exactly what I mean. I can’t, understand the computer shunners, but I can reach the younger people and even a 100 year old friend and a whole lot of older people who can still learn and change and enjoy life unimagined 30 years ago.
Oh I love my computer……I am not very techy but….oh it’s wonderful to be able to interact with people in here…..and we have a wealth of stuff to discover…..you can keep the telly….except for crime dramas lol…..we are so lucky…..it’s a shame…..many of my friends won’t learn how to use one…..they are missing a treat!…Thanks for the blog Rose…
XXXXXX M
Great blog rose, thank you xxx
rosy wellcome to the 21st century,enjoy the computer rose course its here to stay,l think your a very brave lady taking it on lol, happy computing to you, lol love john harden xx
Thank you for you remarks. I like the line, it is here to stay. But, there are many things that won’t be here.; like paper checks, and I am sure a lot of others.
Rose