Technophobe DM

[Meili04]

My DM is in her 50s so not very elderly. She has a basic mobile phone but won't learn to use the internet or have a smartphone. She calls me to find numbers to order catalogues, she has to order things through the telephone so can't get discount codes etc. I've asked her about going for computer courses etc and she says it's too scary. She said she would like to learn about ancient kings etc and I said it's all on Wikipedia.
She's very isolated , doesn't drive so calls me up regularly to order things look up things on the net.

AIBU to think you can learn to use the internet in your 50's and it's just laziness ?

I would get her an iPad. My dh was almost technically illiterate until Ibought him his own iPad in 2019 for his eightieth birthday. He uses it every day. I have now bought him his own iPhone for a joint Christmas and Birthday present and traded in my iPhone 7. He now wants to text etc. so long as you are available to help her initially for a couple of weeks she should soon fall in love with it.

I wish people would stop saying "has she never had a job??"

There's are LOTS of jobs which do not require a computer....

Some posters really do struggle with thinking outside their own little bubble

We actively will not allow my dad any tech, as he will be a liability. He has been asking about Twitter. He gets drunk and calls LBC all the time. He needs to be kept offline.