Checking out the app, ConnectMyFolks, it hit home how my true north purpose is to turn PEOPLE into apps, to show humans how they can help oldsters & the seriously elderly connect without having to even imagine the word TECHNOLOGY.
Mind you, from everything I've read, ConnectMyFolks is a dandy app. Just two things that bug me:
- It's still technology, albeit the lowest level possible.
- It's still not human connection
My dear old Mother was a full-blown technophobe, frozen by anything that didn't have a knob, clueless about buttons & cryptic symbols. And she knew how to type! A LOT of older folks never did, which only adds to how fiercely intimidated they can feel with even the lowest level of technology, by even a whisper of the word.
And being online is still not human connection.
"Oh, wow!" we think, "Grannie can have easy access to e-mail & photos & videos!" Alas, most folks who are old enough to be intimidated by technology are also likely to prefer a photo they can post on the fridge, a note or letter they can set aside & reread later, a card they can display.
So, how do I combine the human element with all that the digital revolution offers? An intriguing challenge. One I've been yada-yada-yadaing about for years.
Gotta dig down, recognize the persistent fear that derails me, get into the DO, the BE. Because there's a reason for what's calling ME: my funky life experience, my business systems background, the fact I made my professional bones through innovative computer applications (not apps) ~and~ that I can fully understand older friends who loathe anything that comes with a keyboard & screen, who freak out at "touch" innovations.
FACT: The Universe is fed to the teeth with my dilly-dallying, shilly-shallying.
Things are going to get pretty nasty if I don't get my rear in gear in the charge to reverse the trend away from pens & paper & stamps ~ and, at the same time ~ develop templates to help all sorts of others become human "apps" who (not that) get oldsters & the elderly & seriously ancient moving & grooving on the internet without so much as a whisper of the dreaded word, TECHNOLOGY!
Credits:
apple.vshare.com
seniorplanet.org
Hallmark
clker.com
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