08-23-2016, 04:38 AM
I can understand people who are shy of computers. They can be a terrible distraction, and the first time I opened mine, and a couple of weeks later, got on the internet, it was fun at first in a way...but I also felt something I did not like. I still do. Whatever that is I find hard to conceptualise, but sense it. Partly I sense that whatever one does online, is constantly observed....by some organisation somewhere. I truly feel there is not as much privacy as we think there is.
But that doesn't upset me too badly. I am happy to let whatever I wish to 'hang out'! And what I want to be private, I keep private.
However, many things are what we make them, so there are hundreds of positive uses a computer/internet connection can have. A very postive use is for an old person who can't get about easily, so they can shop online. The grocery deliveries are wonderful. I have used them for years.
My Aunt also can't cope with the internet/computers, yet struggles to do her shopping. I have told her I will happily do it for her, and get it sent to her address. Yet for the sake of being able to look at the tomatoes before she buys them, she would rather give up half a day struggling and paying for a taxi.
I have always found the quality of the fresh food sent to be excellent.
It is great also to have easy communication with others, and with subjects a person is interested in. The internet can do so much to make a lonely person feel so included in so many things and useful to others in many ways.
But that doesn't upset me too badly. I am happy to let whatever I wish to 'hang out'! And what I want to be private, I keep private.
However, many things are what we make them, so there are hundreds of positive uses a computer/internet connection can have. A very postive use is for an old person who can't get about easily, so they can shop online. The grocery deliveries are wonderful. I have used them for years.
My Aunt also can't cope with the internet/computers, yet struggles to do her shopping. I have told her I will happily do it for her, and get it sent to her address. Yet for the sake of being able to look at the tomatoes before she buys them, she would rather give up half a day struggling and paying for a taxi.
I have always found the quality of the fresh food sent to be excellent.
It is great also to have easy communication with others, and with subjects a person is interested in. The internet can do so much to make a lonely person feel so included in so many things and useful to others in many ways.
