Bridging the digital divide for mothers: old people using computer phones
this mother's day, mother's day to dinner, to give mother gifts, is a filial piety, but the mother's more deep love, perhaps to help mothers across the two The digital divide between generations. Previously, all kinds of web application manuals drawn for mothers often ran red internet, and in that line of painting, the children's love for their mothers was condensed. With the advent of mother's day, netizens have been talking about their digital life with their mothers.
Mother's Day Mother's day for mothers across the digital divide
IT Times reporter Wang Juelei
children say
I am a mother's computer consultant and "nanny"
dunkan lives in Shanghai, his mother in Australia, thousands of miles. "Every mother's day, I always feel sorry, not even having a chance to have a meal with my mother. I can only chat with her at Skype and say hello to her. But this year, I will help her sort out the computer through QQ's remote operation function. She doesn't know much about computers. She always messed up. She used to stack all kinds of documents on the desktop, even the anti-virus software was not installed.
in fact, when Deng Kan was in high school, he became his mother's computer consultant and "nanny". Mother used the first desktop computer that he helped to configure, and often helped to maintain. Even when her mother later went to Australia, she would call back often to ask Deng Kan. One morning, Deng Kan received a phone call from his mother. He thought he knew something was wrong with his mother. In a hurry, the mother did not take into account the jet lag and woke him up from his dream. After all, his mother, who made a few complaints, must help her solve the problem.
Deng Kan told the IT times: "my personal observation is that my mother's generation is different from my grandmother's generation, and they are unwilling to go old." Like my mother, she always dressed up young and dressed in fancy clothes, but they were actually older than my grandmother's generation. Because they are hard to cross this digital divide, they are at a loss in the face of digital products. I think we should help them, let them keep up with them, and let them get old.
mother said
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our old man is no longer a "dead man"
two weeks ago, at the emergency transfusion room at the Ruijin hospital, the reporter saw a nearly 70 old man who was staring at the smartphone in his hand. Loose, sometimes happy, and sometimes depressed. Reporters gathered before she knew that she was watching TV plays on her cell phone. Under the chat, the Zhu Lao Tai told the reporter cheerfully that this apple 4S was last year's mother's day, her daughter filial piety to her. "At that time, I got this kind of mobile phone, just like holding a hot potato. I didn't know how to deal with it. I jumped out of it and didn't know anything coming out. At that time, I was determined to return to my daughter, but my daughter was very patient. She used two days on her weekends and taught me one by one. At last I managed to learn. I'm going to have WeChat now. "
since the mobile phone, Zhu Lao Tai's IT life has been greatly improved, and everywhere she carries it. She even learned to use the phone to surf the Internet and hang out the specialist clinic. "Learning to use smart phones is not only convenient for life, but also my position at home has changed. In the past, during the New Year holidays, young people did not play computer games or watch mobile phones, ignoring our outdated old people. Sometimes I think, before them, we really have become "living dead". Now that's two, my daughter, son or grandson comes home, and I'll let them teach me some new games, or download some new TV dramas, and they are willing to do it. In this way, the feelings of the family are much more harmonious than before. Mr. Zhu told the IT Times reporter.
my daughter made my digital life more "tide"
Pan Mingzhu, who worked in the media for 50, was more proficient in IT than the average mother. Originally, she would only use the basic functions of some computers, typing, searching for information on the Internet. Since her daughter went to the United States to read university, her digital life became more "tide", video chat, Skype, WeChat and other things, all play very well. "It's all a middle school with a daughter." She told the IT Times reporter.
his daughter studied art in the United States, and several of her paintings appeared in an exhibition of paintings in New York, which made Pan Mingzhu proud. On Mother's day this year, her daughter has told her in WeChat that she will draw a picture for her as a gift and show it to her in video chat. As for what was painted, the daughter refused to disclose it beforehand. After using WeChat
, Pan Mingzhu felt that although her daughter was far away from the horizon, she had a sense of closeness under her knees. In the computer video call, after all, the two sides about a time, Qi Qi sit down, but the mobile phone can contact every time and anywhere, the daughter's dynamics, she basically did "full control". "Last summer vacation, my daughter didn't come back to play on the west coast of the United States. When I arrived at the airport, I arrived at the airport, arrived at what time, and what the weather was, and she told me in real time on WeChat. I often leave a picture in the scenic spot and upload it to me at WeChat. She also taught me how to use WeChat's video call, after opening, and then press the video button, you can make a toll free call. I learned all these little tricks from her. " Pan Mingzhu said. The daughter helped her to cross the digital divide successfully, and also put her kite line firmly in her mother's hand.
let mothers no longer alone, continue to "grow up"
famous sociologist, Professor Gu Xiaoming
My lover is 65 years old this year, her WeChat is playing harder than me, she and a group of mothers built a WeChat group, in the inside of a group of children in the photos, Discuss where to play, children have a rash, everyone is talking with a big mouth. So I think that IT is not for playing, but for communication, is an indispensable part of life. Crossing the digital divide is very important for mothers. It can expand the mothers' social interaction and make mothers no longer lonely. In general, when children grow up and leave home, the old couple have their own hobbies, and their mothers will be somewhat lonely, but information technology allows them to find the same, share experience and interest in life.
, on the other hand, information technology also gives mothers opportunities to grow. Mothers are all busy, energy used for families, children, and neglect themselves. When they finally breathe the breath and get the chance to grow up again, they are all middle age. But it doesn't matter. With the improvement of life expectancy, mothers still have a long time to grow up.
sons and daughters are the last mile to help mothers connect to information life, a crucial chain. As long as children help their mothers to walk through the last mile, mothers tend to move forward steadily. Therefore, the best gift of mother's Day is to help mothers across the digital divide. It is a very good way for young people on the Internet to draw their mothers' hand-painted instructions, making some "tutorials" that mothers can understand and serve their mothers sincerely. I call them well.
my mother has just learned to use QQ to type it very slowly. I don't see her back in the middle of the day. I sent her a jittering window, and the result was waiting for a while. "I thought an earthquake just now."
has always felt that my mother's passion for QQ is just like that of a primary school student. On her birthday, her boyfriend sent a text message to wish her a happy birthday. She replied, "Hey, hey, you want a QQ space gift, QQ is x * * * * * * * *".
teach the lady to use a flat. She asked, "how do you get to Taobao?" I quickly installed a App, up with my account, about how to teach her how to use it, I went out, and not a minute, the phone received the order to notify the "sweet lady decorating body, sweet and sweet long sleeved lace super beautiful dress"...
I am playing a game. An airplane is flying towards the sun. She stamped her feet in fear and pointed to the plane and shouted, "fly high and fly high!" The plane flew past the sun, and my mother sighed, "young man is bold, if I hadn't warned against the sun!"