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Gone are the days when an employer or volunteer director would consider it quaint if an older person pleaded technophobia and asked to conduct business on paper. "The computer, if you can use it, enables you to stay in the workforce longer," notes Kristin Fabos, executive director of SeniorNet, a nonprofit dedicated to helping seniors learn computer skills...
Older Web surfers are catching on to the blog craze. "We're seeing more and more seniors wanting to take advantage of this new technology," says Marcie Schwarz of SeniorNet, an educational organization that helps older adults get wired. Blogs such as Cbreaux Speaks, My Mom's Blog and the Oldest Living Blogger showcase their creators' thoughts on daily events and international politics. "This is a generation that has stories to share," says Susannah Fox, associate director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. According to Fox, 4% of online adults 70 and older have created a blog...
Start with thirdage.com or seniornet.com At ThirdAge (for those 45-64), click on romance. On Seniornet (for those 65 and older), go to the e-mail Pen Pals area of the discussion boards. Most dating sites, including the biggest, personals.yahoo.com are open to adults of any age. Better still, skip the dating websites and spend your time at special-interest sites that have active chat areas. mplayer.com lets gamers schmooze as they play, while salonmagazine.com caters to a more literary crowd...
...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...
...Weinberg's chief destinations is the 15,000-strong SeniorNet, where she spends several hours a day chatting with others her age in the organization's station on America Online. Many seniors find the network a rich source of new friends and support in time of trouble as well as a handy supplier of information on such subjects as how to light a water heater or handle depression. ``For many older people, computers allow them to feel as if their world is still expanding,'' says Mary Furlong, who founded the San Francisco-based SeniorNet in 1986. ``They allow...