Who would have thought ten years ago that there would be an Internet site where you could talk to friends, upload photos, leave comments on your friend's walls and play games on. Yes I'm talking about facebook. Who invented such a brilliant site? Whoever it was they are a genius! All of the younger generation are on it. It's a cheaper and faster way of communicating with friends. However are the older generation being left out? Do they even realise what there missing?
I was up visiting my grandparents last week and we were watching the xtra-factor where they were asking the public to leave a message on facebook and to check out twitter. My grandad didn't understand what facebook or twitter was. I had to explain to him that they were social networking sites where people can talk to each other, check out other peoples page and follow people. He wasn't really grasping this concept at all. He bombarded me with questions such as How do you get on to it? Do you have to pay? Who can go on them? Eventually after spending about 30minutes trying to explain to him about these sites I think he understood. When I left the house I got to thinking and it occurred to me who else didn't know about Facebook and Twitter. Most of us would just take it for granted that everybody knows what virtual communities are and the purpose of them. It just goes to show that people who are not computer literate don't have a clue whats going on online. I wonder do they even care?
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