Word: seniornet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Mabel Osborne, 85, had spent two years sick in bed when she read about a SeniorNet class in Dallas. She signed up and made an important discovery. "I wasn't sick," she says. "I was just bored to death." Osborne quickly mastered basic computer skills and went on to study word processing at a local community college. "She bought a word processor and is now writing the history of her life," says Florence Wetzig, 69, a former beauty-salon operator who taught Osborne how to compute. "She has said to me many times that I saved her life...
...employed her computer to write a book about her collection. A numismatist has electronically cataloged , his 65,000 rare coins. A beekeeper in Hawaii is putting out a newsletter using the latest technology for desktop publishing. "It has been a ball," says Clark, who recently started a new SeniorNet center in Bellevue, Wash. "No matter how old you are, a guy's got to have his toys...