Comments on: Grandmas Love Wikipedia

By: Shripriya

Shripriya — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:28:27 +0000

Claiming my Grandmother :)

http://shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/01/of-cool-grandmas/

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Grannies and critics at TomorrowConnecting.biz — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:29:58 +0000

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By: Sapna

Sapna — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:40:03 +0000

Absolutely. What is interesting is [most info gleaned from recent 3 week India trip] how mainstream new technology and the Internet has become for moms/grandmas. A few points:

a) Subscribing to SMS alerts doesnt seem exclusive for the yuppie crowd. My parents subscribe to SMS alerts for auspicious time [the whole 'whats the best time to name a kid or do my housewarming ceremony' ] from their mobile provider.

b) They also know much about Antivirus,etc--though they dont really do much about it. Nope, that is taken care of by the friendly neighborhood IT kid, as part of a 2 year service agreement with the computer dealer. [the kid comes over to scan, clean and even open up the hard-disk to remove dirt about once in two months]

c) There are email ids created exclusively for online magazine subscriptions [though mom still wonders why the nice Amy XYZ mails her so often. Spam is yet to sink in]

d) dayparting is all about email/IM time in the morning, browsing time in the afternoon and SMS game shows in the evening.

and my phone is laughably antiquated in the grandpa community of Bangalore ["what ringtones do you have? I have morning prayers for my cellphone" a 58 year old told me]