Thursday, June 30, 2011

Technology makes (some) people feel old - The Boston Globe

Signs of the times…

Alas, that was a rare victory in her war on aging, which, in 2011, means not just looking and acting young in the real world, where crows’ feet and bifocals threaten, but in cyberspace, too. In the not-so-distant past, gray hair and orthopedic shoes made you look old. Today, there are other giveaways: an AOL address, the inability to tweet — or even find Twitter on the web, ignorance of Tumblr, a fear of uploading and downloading, e-mailing instead of texting. Flip phones are the new middle-age paunch.

Technology makes (some) people feel old - The Boston Globe

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