answer:There comes a point where many older people just say “I quit!” With my parents, it was programming VCRs—so we got them a combo TY/player and sent them movies. However, people whose work is affected by technology tend to stay savvy much longer. I know someone in her late eighties who still keeps up with it all, and her husband does too; he is her prime IT and communications manager. But they both have had high-technology careers. BTW @wundayatta I am older than you and I am always learning new techno stuff and even learning things like lolspeak and leet just out of sheer curiosity. My career has straddled the arts and high tech for a long time. I notice some of my peers, the ones who were more “arty” have always resisted the tech [fighting email, for existence] while others embrace it. There are a lot of us out there on Facebook and LinkedIn especially as retirement looms for so many who feel unprepared to retire. You are seeing the “graying of Facebook”.