Originally Posted by Janis
I'm an 'old fogie'!!!! I remember when, not too many years ago, when my youngest daughter was in college and took me to the computer lab and showed me how to look up patterns of all kinds on the computer. Then she got a computer, and got on e-mail and talked to other college kids. I thought 'that's nice, it's a college thing.' Then our older adult children got computers too and I thought 'that's nice, it will help keep them connected.' Then she got US on the computer too. When she got a job and went away to work and didn't need the computer, it was left for us to use for e-mail. We slowly got into other things on the computer, and are lost without one!!! I found out that 'computers are for kids of all ages!' Even those of us with gray or white hair. How far my thinking has come in such a short amount of time!
I can totally relate to that. My MIL bought each of her 3 children computers, as none of us had one but she did and loved it. I had never had any computer experience, and I wouldn't touch it for the first couple of weeks we had it. That was in 2002. I was afraid that I'd do something wrong and break it! Really!
I finally got up my nerve and started messing around with it, then decided I really liked the "surfing" thing, checking everything out, and I went to town on it. I bought books on how to use it and everything. I studied from books and took some free classes on the internet like for Microsoft Word, and I got pretty good at the basic stuff. I still can't do a lot lot of complicated things, but I use the computer ALL THE TIME!!!
It's my way of 'staying connected". Now, I couldn't live without my computer.....Or my digital camera! I asked my DH one day when I couldn't get my camera to download pictures,
"Have you ever felt like you can't talk without pictures? How am I going to talk to my daughter without pictures?" He just laughed and laughed. I freely admit it now, I am addicted to
1) Quilting 2) My computer and 3) My digital camera.
I better get off here. I still have work to do.
Talk to you all later.
Marilyn