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30 Times Elderly People Decided To Text And It Resulted In These Gems
New technologies have always been scary. Mostly because people prefer the familiar and technological advancements bring unexpected changes into the world they worked so hard to adjust to. So it’s not surprising that some individuals reject innovations or take longer to adapt to them. Especially the older folks, whose declining cognitive and motor skills are making it even harder to keep up with modern devices.
Luckily, this doesn’t stop them from trying, often resulting in quite a few funny blunders and mishaps. Bored Panda has compiled a whole list of texting fails, hoping that it serves as a reminder to message your elders and encourage them to use technology more often. After all, practice does make perfect!
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#1
I Found An Old Screenshot From The First Time My Grandma Messaged Me. I Love Her
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#3
Dammit Facebook!
Krispiechiken (she/her) 2 years ago
My grandmother did something similar once, but in whatsapp XD
#5
Text To Speech Problems
#6
Woke Up This Morning With A Text From Grandma
#9
No
#10
A Friend Posted This
#12
Grandma
#13
Coward
#15
Congrats
#16
Man's Mother Likes To Use The Microphone Function Rather Than Typing To Text While Driving
#17
My Grandma Learns To Text
#19
Grandma Said She Was In The Middle Of The Atlantic Late Last Night With No Extra Explanation
#21
I Don't Know Grandma
#22
Can The iPad If He Uses This iPhone?
#23
Sent This To My Dad A Couple Of Years Ago. Still Makes Me Laugh
#24
Thanks Ma
#29
“Go To Bed”
#30
My Grandma
#31
My Mom Replied To Her Own Text
Mary Peace 1 year ago
Sometimes I find answering my own texts is the only way to get a sensible answer!
#33
He's Trying
#34
Just Can't Figure It Out
#35
My Aunt Texted Me For My Phone Number
#36
Texting With Dad
#37
My Grandma’s Friend Used The Voice Text Option And Couldn’t Get It To Stop
#38
My Mother, Texting Me Sh*tty Jokes At 1 A.m, While Sat 1 Room Away From Me
StarCrossedFriday 2 years ago
And yet these are the moments you’ll miss most when she’s gone 😌
#39
My Dad's Business Idea
#40
My Mom Had An Interesting Conversation With Her Friend
#41
Friend’s Mom Is Still Learning Emojis
#42
One Of My Mom's Weekly Texts To Her It Guy (Me)
#45
Grandpa Just Learned How To Text Photos...he Still Has Some Logistics To Think Through
#46
The First Texts My Grandma Ever Sent
#47
Gran Trying Her Hand At Texting
#48
"I Promise I'll Behave Myself"
#49
The Radio Was On
#50
My Dad Tried To Use The Voice-To-Text Feature On His Phone
#51
60 Year Old Coworker Has Been Texting Me Everyday For Over A Year
#52
I Never Thought My Dad Belonged Here Until Now
David Morgan 2 years ago
This is actually quite endearing. Understanding yourself and accepting a mistake without complaining. Good for Dad.
#53
Texting My Granny Is Always An Adventure
#54
So My Dad Got His First Smartphone
#56
Birthday Text From My Mom...i’m 25
#58
My Mom Only Responds Using Speech To Text
#59
My Mom Sends Me Really Cryptic Texts Sometimes
Undercover 2 years ago
I think in the future everybody will die at some point, smoking or not....
#62
Aw, Mom Is Cute And Easily Impressed. She Just Recently Learned To Text
#64
My Aunt's Response To A Photo Of My Husband And Me Where I Jokongly Said We Are "Ready To Take On The Apocolypse"
#65
Gramma Is Living In 3017
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
Good on Grandma, that's a lot more complicated than sending the emoji!
#67
Texting Dad About Lunch
#68
My Mom Has Some Trouble Reading
#70
My Grandma Texted Me This And Is Now Avoiding All My Calls
#72
I Left My Phone At My Parents House So My Mom Texted My A Picture Of My Phone Sitting On The Counter To My Phone
#73
My Dad Is Still Figuring Out Texting
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
When he got a desktop computer in the early 2000s, my dad thought all his problems were solved with speech-to-text. He was epically wrong.
#78
I Still Have No Idea What She Ordered
#80
Got This Text From My Mom
#82
I’m Not Even Sure If She Knows What She Was Saying
#83
Texts From Mom
#87
Dad Has A Remedy To Me Walking In The Snow
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Bertha Madott 2 years ago
I am an older senior (F75). One of the huge issues for older people is eyesight. Yes technology is hard. But many people do not / cannot wear the proper glasses. Lots of times I’’m with somewhat younger people (50s or 60s) and I’m the only one who can read the small print. Like on a label. Why!?! Because I’m wearing old lady bifocals.
Jac Carr 2 years ago
There is some print I'm convinced absolutely nobody could read, like ingredients on small packets. Some text is so small it's clearly just there to satisfy the law, not to actually assist buyers. I also have to take a picture and zoom in and I wear bifocals
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WubiDubi 2 years ago
EN-US in brackets. I had a gran who text messaged (SMS) me to my landline instead of my mobile (cell). The service would then call me and a bad -then- text to speech service would read out the message. It took a while and several topics..It took years to get her to send them to the correct number.
Jac Carr 2 years ago
I took my landline number out of my dad's mobile phone for this reason but I wrote it down and taped it inside a kitchen cupboard door in case he ever actually needed it
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Zelda McLink 2 years ago
When mobile phones first had voice mail, you would talk into the phone and would receive a text with the message. When texting became popular, my dad - god bless him - would speak his message and press reply. So many blank texts!
Bertha Madott 2 years ago
I am an older senior (F75). One of the huge issues for older people is eyesight. Yes technology is hard. But many people do not / cannot wear the proper glasses. Lots of times I’’m with somewhat younger people (50s or 60s) and I’m the only one who can read the small print. Like on a label. Why!?! Because I’m wearing old lady bifocals.
Jac Carr 2 years ago
There is some print I'm convinced absolutely nobody could read, like ingredients on small packets. Some text is so small it's clearly just there to satisfy the law, not to actually assist buyers. I also have to take a picture and zoom in and I wear bifocals
Load More Replies... WubiDubi 2 years ago
EN-US in brackets. I had a gran who text messaged (SMS) me to my landline instead of my mobile (cell). The service would then call me and a bad -then- text to speech service would read out the message. It took a while and several topics..It took years to get her to send them to the correct number.
Jac Carr 2 years ago
I took my landline number out of my dad's mobile phone for this reason but I wrote it down and taped it inside a kitchen cupboard door in case he ever actually needed it
Load More Replies... Zelda McLink 2 years ago
When mobile phones first had voice mail, you would talk into the phone and would receive a text with the message. When texting became popular, my dad - god bless him - would speak his message and press reply. So many blank texts!
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