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Next week is the annual Get Online Week where more people will be persuaded to sign up to the internet. The organisers hope to encourage 80,000 to sign up.
The ONS has reported that, whole 99% of those aged 16-24 use the net, only 40% of those aged 65 or more have. Age UK is so concerned about this that it has warned that unless more can be done to help older people get online ‘there is serious concern that they'd become more and more marginalised members of society’.
I’m now over 65 and use the internet every day, but I can’t believe that those oldies who do not are becoming ‘marginalised members of society’. Oldies who do not have computers may not be able to order their shopping online or keep in touch with friends and relatives via email, but they are hardly marginalised.
Let’s keep a sense of proportion here!
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Next week is the annual Get Online Week where more people will be persuaded to sign up to the internet. The organisers hope to encourage 80,000 to sign up.
The ONS has reported that, whole 99% of those aged 16-24 use the net, only 40% of those aged 65 or more have. Age UK is so concerned about this that it has warned that unless more can be done to help older people get online ‘there is serious concern that they'd become more and more marginalised members of society’.
I’m now over 65 and use the internet every day, but I can’t believe that those oldies who do not are becoming ‘marginalised members of society’. Oldies who do not have computers may not be able to order their shopping online or keep in touch with friends and relatives via email, but they are hardly marginalised.
Let’s keep a sense of proportion here!
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