With the rapid development of the technological age, we live in the Internet and information age, and our lives are filled with a large number of technological products. These products are closely related to our lives. Our younger generation enjoys the convenience brought by technological products and is also immersed in technological products. .
But there are also 250 million elderly people who were born in the 1950s and 1960s, have not received higher education, and have a low level of education. In this high-tech Internet era, it is difficult for them to keep up with the times, and it is even more difficult for them to accept the Internet era Technological products, they are marginalized and become #被网络忘的人#.
There are many cases of elderly people using the Internet in life. Let us first look at this set of pictures:
Old people can't register with mobile phones
Lined up all night to buy tickets
Will not use ATM machines to withdraw money
Looking at these pictures, thinking about the old people around me, remembering that when we were young, our parents taught us a lot, and then looking at the impatience of many people towards the elderly, it is really not a good feeling.
Time flies so fast, they are old, now we need to teach them to learn things. Become a child in our eyes, who can't learn anything, why can't we teach them the way we taught you when we were young?
Stories of the elderly around
1. Convenient payment is no longer "convenient"
My grandma went out to take a taxi. After arriving at the location, she paid the fare in cash. However, she quarreled with the driver because she couldn't find it. She was helpless to find a nearby store to exchange it. Without the change, the driver used grandma's elderly machine to call me. The phone and WeChat asked me to pay for the taxi fare. Not to mention the trouble, and the mentality also created a shadow. I don’t want to take a taxi anymore, and I have to prepare a lot of change when I pay my card and take the bus.
2. The elderly behind the epidemic health code
In this epidemic, various anti-epidemic measures with codes have also put many elderly people in a dilemma. When they go to the supermarket to buy things, they need to scan the code to enter. As a result, many old people who hold elderly machines or do not use mobile phones cannot enter the supermarket to buy thing. Even with the help of overtime staff, such an inefficient verification method makes many old people unable to understand and have no patience to wait.
3. The desire for technological products
I remember one time when I was swiping Kuaishou, and suddenly I saw my uncle appeared on the phone. I showed my grandmother and immediately said to me, is it because my uncle did something wrong? It took a lot of effort to show up here. Zhili finally clarified most of the functions of the phone, and finally he didn't worry about calling and asking his uncle what was going on.
Really can't learn to use a mobile phone
For the elderly, do they have the right to say "no"?
Whenever encountering such a situation, 100% of the elderly will choose to say: "I will not use this stuff", and then get into a dilemma with the other party. For this reason, do the elderly have the right to say "no" ?
When I took the driver’s license test before, I was a 40-odd eldest brother. When I was taking the first test, I didn’t pay the test fee on my mobile phone and didn’t know where to pay. I asked the staff. The staff was impatient. In a friendly situation, the companion helped him to pay the fee, and after the test was done on the computer, the result would not be used, and he yelled at the examiner.
I think under this circumstance, no one should have the right to say "no".
In some necessary links, we should not use "no" to escape the existing rules. For example: use of all necessary Internet products such as driving license test, payment of electricity bills, taxes, self-operated stores, self-operated trading and so on.
Then, under some pseudo-demand rules, we should try to get familiar with the products brought by the Internet, such as the use of bus cards, QR code payment, the simple use of mobile phones, the use of household products, and other Internet products that are closely connected to life.
To put it bluntly, we must know what must be used, and must learn, and if it is unnecessary, we can get familiar with it according to our own situation. You cannot say "no" under any circumstances.
So how should we learn to use it?
Learn to use mobile phone
As an elderly forgotten by the Internet, how to help the elderly accept new things?
Don’t tell these elderly people, "If you don’t know how to study,"
It is really not easy for them to learn. Teaching them to switch on and off their mobile phones, charge them, and make calls requires a lot of effort, let alone money-related products that have not been touched. Faced with this situation, as Internet pioneers, how can we make them enjoy it?
1. Pay more attention, be patient, and take time
Now mobile phones have simple elderly mode (that is, minimal mode or simple mode), allowing the elderly to easily realize various functions on the mobile phone. In addition, there are barrier-free functions, which can be set with many settings suitable for the elderly.
Easy mode
In this mode, the desktop layout is simpler and the icon font is larger, which is more acceptable to the elderly.
We take some time to teach the old people around us, we can use the function of the mobile phone to let them use smart phones. For the elderly who are really illiterate and can’t learn, we can also let them use the old phones and learn to play. Phone calls, so that they no longer have to suffer alone.
After all, we have ignored them. As long as we can teach them and let them use it repeatedly, they will definitely keep up with us slowly, no matter which level we follow, as long as we let them enjoy this era. I think the product brought is also a kind of filial piety.
2. Mobile phone training, the elderly are also working hard to follow up
Many elderly people are actually not as hardened as we said, and cannot accept new things. In fact, they really want to study hard and accept new things, but they suffer from no one to take them and teach them.
I have seen organizations similar to mobile phone training courses on the Internet before, and there are many elderly people studying, which is very conducive to the elderly to contact the Internet.
I remember that when we paid electricity bills in our village, many people would not use WeChat to pay. Then the village cadres began to teach everyone how to use mobile phones, gathered the old people in the village to the brigade office, and taught hand-in-hand, almost all the children were refunded. I don’t use the mobile phone, but there is no problem in using it, but I have learned a lot, such as making calls, watching short videos, paying bills on WeChat, sending red envelopes, how to send voices in groups, and now in groups in our village, I can type and type. Can't speak, use it well.
Old people are learning the use of computers
"Old people forgotten by the Internet, or old people forgotten by us" are worthy of our thinking
In fact, in this era, whether young or old, as long as they don’t study, they are likely to be eliminated by this Internet age, but they are slower than us, just like when we were young when we were exposed to new things and learning, but parents were patient Let us learn.
They learned the things of their time, "farming land, building houses, reclaiming wasteland...". We learn the things of our time, "mobile phones, computers, digital, creation..." Maybe when our generation gets old, our children will learn other things, we are also forgotten people.
So "the old people who are forgotten by the Internet, or the old people who are forgotten by us" are worthy of our thinking
In addition, take more time to let the elderly around you enjoy the convenience and happiness brought by the Internet age.