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...relationships with people far away. Others want to manage their investments, plan trips or get medical information. Many take classes at local senior centers or community colleges to learn the basics, then start with an easy-to-use service such as America Online. These services offer e-mail and chat rooms, where several people are online simultaneously and carry on a written conversation. Other seniors like the chat rooms offered by online sites geared to them, such as Third Age (online address: www.thirdage.com) AgeScape www.agescape.com) or SeniorNet www.seniornet.com...
When she reached California, her son Paul persuaded her to log onto the WELL, a Sausalito-based online community that predates AOL's chat rooms. Most of the users were men in their 30s and 40s. Says Kamen: "I was female, and I was by far the oldest. The value was being able to log on without being identified by age or anything else. It was really liberating...
...weekly Ohio newspaper, the Coshocton Free Enterpriser, he was looking for a new sense of community. He had taken up residence in an RV and loved the freedom but felt rootless. His solution: to build communities online. Through Third Age, an online site for seniors, Firman founded a chat room called Butt Out, which offers support for seniors trying to stop smoking. He joined another called the Novel Approach, where 16 regulars critique one another's manuscripts...
...like to chat with people...
...flip a palm toward the speaker and say, "Talk to the hand." If I'm desperate for the latest ghetto slang these days, I'm reduced to lurking on the subway near clots of beautifully turned-out white boys who are trying to sound like cool dudes as they chat on their way to expensive private schools...