Senior citizen silver surfers
p2p news / p2pnet: Britain’s Bill Thompson calls them silver surfers. To the Associated Press they’re "Senior citizen bloggers".
To me, they’re just people who go online. But I’m biased ; )
"It’s too easy to sit in your own cave and let the world go by, eh?" – AP has Ray Sutton, the Oldest Living Blogger, 73, who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, saying in Senior Citizen Bloggers Defy Stereotypes, with the stereotype ‘eh’ in the quote. "It keeps the old head working a little bit so you’re not just sitting there gawking at TV."
And, "It brings out the best in me," said Boston-area blogger Millie Garfield, 80, who writes My Mom’s Blog with occasional help from her son, Steve Garfield, a digital video producer. "My life would be dull without it."
Three percent of online U.S. seniors have created a blog and 17 percent have read someone else’s blog, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Compare that to online 18- to 29-year-olds: Thirteen percent have created blogs and 32 percent have read someone else’s blog, according to Pew, quoted by AP.
And, "In the two years since 92-year-old retired Tennessee poultry and egg farmer Ray White started Dad’s Tomato Garden Journal, the blog has been viewed more than 45,000 times," says the story, adding:
"White’s daughter, Mary, said the blog keeps her father interested in life. White now has friends he’s never met in England, Portugal, Germany, Canada and all 50 states, he said. ‘You’d be surprised how many questions I get during the tomato season,’ he said. ‘There’s always somebody having a problem’."
JN
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