Initiatives at Google Brings Anyone Closer to the Initiatives at Google Brings Anyone Closer to the World Wide WebWorld Wide Web

A number of people at Google possessed an excellent idea. Let us create a series of videos that will help our parents to use the web. They launched a site that empowers people to teach their grown up parents how to use the web. It is a great step in helping older people to overcome their technophobia.Age related digital divide belongs to the things that help to make older people, as well as late seniors, believe insufficient. What seems too many elementary, creates a paralyzing situation for elders at the most fundamental web based usage situations.

Managing on their own, through a simplified adapted process of guidance that does not embarrass them in front of their children and grandchildren, not only answers their need to know, but provides a handle to confront the issue on their own, at their pace, without being pressured by their slow and hesitant learning curve. Knowing that those guides are there, always at reach and they can revisit if they forget, makes seniors confident. Learning stuffs that tend to be digital natives is intuitive, gives older people a sense of that belongs and a feeling of getting included in the digital society.

The happiness of a grandmother that can press the Like button, be updated on her grandchildren status via Facebook, find her way through Google, chat on Skype and send emails, is not to be overlooked.

Allowing these power tools to teach the elderly is a wonderful plan to both children and parents

On the functional level the videos, a natural amateur production, usually are not completely adapted to the wants and speed of the older population. The screenshots are blurred, not everybody has a Mac and the young presenters talk is not always coherent, yet it is a grassroots initiative and an admirable one.

Their resource and awareness to the importance of enhancing the mature population to be more digitally savvy in a simplistic and intuitive way and contribution to a softer digital based bonding between generations.And on exactly the same level, a similarly amazing initiative at Google is an attractive book that instructs young children about the internet. I am sure much older children will be equally happy to learn about what and why around the web and not just take its existence for granted.

These two attempts, borne through a comprehensive attitude, connect the dots for digital immigrants and digital newbie. This contribution to facilitate, familiarize and bond young and old to what is increasingly growing to become a natural part of our life fabric, is another step in adapting our web to make it a real web of life.

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