For those who are computer challenged, why do you think you have such an issue?

[dem in texas]

48. Age Makes no difference

I am a 73 year-old Grandmother who worked in the computer business for many years starting with mid-size and main frame computers. When the first PC's came out, I had to learn some DOS. When windows came around, I had to learn the windows commands and features. Finally when the Novell networks came out, I went to the community college and took a class. After that I took classes in Dreamweaver, photoshop, flash and a few others. I found it was easier to learn it in a class than on my own.

But - some of the classes had students who were computer illiterates and were 25 to 30 years younger than me. I remember one young woman in photoshop because she always tried to sit by me because she knew I would help her.

I bet some of the old fogies you are talking about can type circles around you because they learned how to type on a manual typewriter in high school years ago. Today fast typing is not a prized skill because the computer can't keep up with a really fast typist. Ask that old white haired lady how to operate a mimeograph. I bet she could show you and then you would be the dummy.

What I am saying is people learn the skills they need at the time they need them. Don't look down on these people. That said, I wish there more people would take a basic computer class. I get calls from my friends all the time with simple problems, some of them don't know the basics of their computer.