Yeah I try to explain things to her, but I think it is a combination of falling deaf ears and simply not getting it. My mum is 66 this year, has been using a computer a lot more in the last 4 or 5 years as she has become more or less bed-bound, so its been a good thing for her. But even after years of me explaining the basics, I have come to learn that it is probably never going to sink in.
All she wants to do is browse the web and send/receive email, which she does quite happily. I can set up a bookmark for her to my photo gallery so she can see the latest photos of my kids, but she wouldn't know (or remember if I told her) how to set her own bookmarks up. So she heavily relies on me sending her and email with a link for new photos. She gets by, just naively I think. I do worry that she is using the same user and password for EVERY site she registers on and again, I have told her the dangers of this, but its like it means nothing to her. I don't think she has an active interest in becoming computer lliterate and this may be the problem. She just wants to do her thing and switch off. So I'll fix it when its broke, or show her how to do something when she asks how. My Dad on the other hand is much better. Equal age, and he is actively creating Wiki pages, submitting books on lulu.com, subscribing to RSS feeds of podcasts to sync to his MP3 player, RSS feeds for my photo albums, using his digicam... its almost like chalk and cheese. The difference is that he seems more interested to learn new things whereas my mother seems not interested. C'est la vie. Jon On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:23:19AM +0000, Alan Pope wrote: > On 25 March 2010 11:12, Jon Reynolds <maill...@jcrdevelopments.com> wrote: > > But she really doesn't have a clue bless her. The basic principles of > > what a password is and what it is for and how her email username and > > password isn't what the entire Internet is asking her for just doesn't > > sink in. > > > > Have you tried educating her? > > I've been teaching my mum recently, and we've been going nice and > slow. She's 60+ and never had a computer before, this is her first. > Last week she was practicing mouse control by playing Solitaire, this > week she was importing photos from her camera and removing red eye :) > > She's very much a non-technical person, having difficulty tuning in an > analog radio. So having someone to help her is very important. Bad > things happen of course, things don't work as she expects and I'll > have to deal with those issues as they come up. > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
