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Aug 15, 2011US News & World Report
Earlier this year, for example, the U.S. Social Security Administration said it would stop sending paper statements to Americans explaining their Social Security benefits. Instead, such statements would be available online. As part of a broader go...
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May 9, 2011Wall Street Journal
[...] Certainly, it's nothing new that kids are plugging in and staying connected. But what is new is that it may be a grandparent on the other end of that virtual tin can—and that technology is bridging the vast age and distance gap that has long...
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Feb 4, 2011San Jose Mercury News
When it comes to technology, many seniors are out of the loop. A much smaller proportion of older Americans use computers or the Internet than Americans in other age groups. But as the community center gathering indicated, seniors have begun to em...
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Dec 15, 2010USA Today
Stand by, kids, Grams and Grandpop might be trying to friend you soon.
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The older set has been slow to embrace the technology, but that is changing. Now the fastest-growing group of people using social networking is adul...
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Oct 19, 2010Washington Post
"The basic notion that people reach a technological saturation point applies to a lot of people," says Lee Rainie, the director of the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, which studies the Web's impact on society. "They liter...
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Sep 13, 2010New York Times
In the last year, social networking services have nearly doubled in popularity among online Americans over 50, while they made virtually no inroads among those ages 18 to 29, according to a report published by the Pew Internet and American Life Pr...
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Aug 28, 2010Chicago Tribune
Richard Bosack joined Facebook on Thursday, after his buddy Ray Urbans recommended the ubiquitous social networking site a few days earlier. Bosack is 89. Urbans is 96.
The two Elmhurst men might be viewed as curiosities in an arena th...
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Aug 27, 2010Orlando Sentinel
Ruth Roseboom checks her Facebook page at least once a day. The 78-year-old Celebration grandmother has 40 Facebook friends and likes to see what they are up to on any given time.
Roseboom is part of a growing number of adults logging ...
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Aug 27, 2010San Jose Mercury News
Just a few short years ago, Facebook was the exclusive province of postmillennial college undergraduates. Well, move over. The Woodstock generation -- and their parents -- are moving in.
The phenomenal growth of Facebook, Twitter and ot...
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Aug 27, 2010CNN
(CNN) -- Nancy Ehrlich was nearing 50 and frustrated, teaching at her small Pennsylvania town's elementary school with colleagues who didn't share her love of technology.
Then, last summer, she found Twitter.
Now, Ehrlich -- ...
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