your grandmother's blog

[cellio]

Ok, maybe not really, but close enough.

Being in my 40s, I'm one of the older LJ users I know. Yes, there are folks older than me, including in my circle of friends, but if you spend any time randomly surfing LJ (or looking at the stats page) you'll quickly see where the center of age-gravity is. (The stats page doesn't, of course, take into account people who don't list birth dates, but that doesn't appear to be significant.)

Recently one of you (I forget who, alas) linked to The Ageless Project, a submissions-driven aggregator sorted by birth year. I've browsed some interesting blogs from people of my parents' generation and, barely, my grandparents' generation. (Oldest listed blogger was born in 1922.) While the stereotype is that older people are technology-averse, and I certainly know many people for whom that's true, the ones who aren't provide an interesting window into a different perspective on life.

Comments

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/zits.asp?date=20060506

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link. When I have the time, I will definitely read some of those blogs.

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

I will definitely look at that when I have a minute. Thanks!

[dr4b]

That is pretty cool. I always just sort of assumed that the online generation would get older and older, really... my dad is almost 63 and he's the biggest computer nerd ever. Though I don't think he has much to write a blog about.

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. Thanks for the link.

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[wellnesslady.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. Very interesting. I have my own lj and post articles to it fairly regularly. I'm 70 and very active in life and on the internet.

[arabella23.livejournal.com]

By boss and I were talking about this just the other day, well kinda.

Being poor and in rural WV, I didn't have access to computers except at the library(for the card cat. only) and the brown type one at my uncle's home that I typed my final HS essay on. I went to college in 1997 and had tremendous anxiety over learning to use the college's email system, let alone this thing called the internet and chat rooms.

I think it is interesting that I being only 26 went through what most older folks (and we'll leave that for interpretation) are going through now. And now I'm always on the computer.

Just my perspective