Computer Help and Support

but while I have a smart phone, I don't use a lot of apps on it. I use it to make phone calls, send and receive texts. Oh, and use it as an alarm clock. I do, on rare occasions, look something up on Google. That's it.

Here's the thing. I was a very early computer user. In January, 1969, I went to work for Mohawk Airlines, which was the second airline in this country to have a computerized reservations system. Yes, it was very simple and basic, but it was light years ahead of the airlines that didn't yet have a computerized reservations system. I got very good at figuring out various work-arounds, and how to use it to get more information.

Clearly, things are very different these days. I always and only am on DU from either my desktop computer (as I am right now) or my laptop, which is mostly used when I'm travelling somewhere. While I do text, what I hate about it is how slow it is for me. I'm an excellent touch typist, and I'm awed and dismayed when I watch young people use two thumbs to text rapidly.

But here's something else to keep in mind. As we get older (I'm 74) we are more and more resistant to change. And that happens at a fairly young age. When I worked at the airport I was in my 20s. Most of my co-workers were equally young. And every time there was some kind of a change to our reservations system, we all pissed and moaned and resisted it at first. We'd get used to one way of doing things and didn't want to change.