Today: How Seniors Use Computers Has Changed

Seniors are living longer these days thanks to technology and medicine. They are also, often separated from their families by distance.

* Computers are great for keeping in touch with adult children, grand children and great grandchildren.

* Computers are cheaper for seniors to keep in touch with family and friends than using telephone or visiting.

* Computers are easier to understand than ever before. Many computers come with large screens and magnifying capabilities so reading the screen is easier than it used to be.

* Dating among seniors has become a HUGE market, and there are lots of ways for seniors to get to know other seniors as friends or romantic partners online.

Indeed, senior dating is nothing new — except that the numbers of seniors dating is growing. While IM’ing is strictly for the Gen XYers. Those mature enough to know that Bobby Kennedy is not a member of Hoobastank, the internet holds the greatest pot of gold for you.

– You can pay your bills online.
– You can buy your groceries online.
– You can book your plane tickets online.
– You can meet a date, a long term significant other, or a
friend, online.

Online dating was once the wild west of socializing, but one computer years is like ten human years. In the past half decade, online dating has become widely accepted as a method to meet nice, attractive, successful people, not just weirdoes who write profiles claiming they’re an eight, and show up at your door with only half a dozen teeth.

But the big news is the Silver Set. People over the age of 60 are now big daters. With the divorce rate for first marriages at 50% and the divorce rate for subsequent marriages even higher, being single has never been a less lonely proposition — although being lonely is still what it used to be. So log on!

Online dating may first have been adopted by people a third their age, but modern mating has virtually been taken over by Glam-parents… today’s retiring baby boomers!