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Hi great people,
A wonderful Wednesday morning from this end and hope you had a splendid night too.
In response to the prompt for the second edition I titled it thus; Helping a 1960s individual with smartphone
Smartphone has been a challenge to so many people especially those in the 1960s. It will take certain Deliberate attributes to deal with the challenge of describing what smartphone entails, how would you it and the way to enjoy the best out of it.
The smartphone is in a different generation compared to 60s generation. The role of smartphones in the present generation can't be overemphasized because it's benefits are too numerous that one can't share all like in the present ICT generation where school assignment, snapshots, communication, registration, internet surfing etc are carried out via this device.
Follow me gradually as I share the experience of someone aged with the issue of smartphones.
I had the privilege to have a friend and just like a father that has been so dear to me but doesn't know how to operate his smartphone very though advanced in age.
In fact there are myths that many people have about smartphone within the African society. Some believe that is a sign of end time which the devil want to use to manipulate the destiny of men. However on his own part, he believes that people of his category don't suppose to use such sophisticated device since it doesn't synchronised with their generation.
With such bias thought emanating from him, I needed to first and foremost brainwashed him very and open the reality of the use of smartphones to him. I had to disagree with any myth that exists about smartphone as not an agent of destruction rather is a good platform to enable other tasks to be done faster and better. I told him knowledge is key to everything and what you don't know, abuse might be inevitable.
Furthermore, I said the devil can use anything if he wants to destroy lives not just smartphone would he use but so many other things therefore disabuse your mind from such believe system.
I had to highlight some key vital significance of smartphones thus;
- Smartphone helps to bridge the gap between the old and new. You can dig into history via smartphone by using the barcode scanner, internet facility etc.
- Smartphone has the capacity to store long term information through the Google emails.
- Before desktop computer has been the order of the day and some laptops however today with the introduction of smartphones, that which can be done in computer smartphone does it even better. Most of the registration for school or of any kind that I've ever done was via my smartphone. This makes work to be done easily and saves more time/energy. Aside that it's also more portable and pocketable.
- From the name smartphone that suggests that this device is very smart and enables more tasks to be done smartly.
It doesn't take much to learn how to use the smartphone because it's self interactive with videos available. At the end, my friend operates the smartphone like someone that has been using it before.
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I like your approach to making them understand what a smartphone is and the first thing is to make them understand the importance of the smartphone and how it can improve their lives.
That's catchy and will definitely get their attention.
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Technology never does any harm to us. Technology can be harmful if we misuse the technology. So, it depends on us whether it will be harmful or not.
I also helped several people to make them understand about smartphones.
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These old ones need patient to learn these stuff. We wouldn't blame them with those myths they keep listening to, but we can only do our best to let them understand the usefulness of smartphones.
sometimes there is a myth like you said that makes someone born in the 60s prefer to stay away from smartphones because they think it is a sign of the end times, in my area there are also myths like that, but we have to be able to explain better and slowly tell them that it's just a myth and smartphones are very useful and helpful
It takes a deliberate effort to disabuse the mind of some from such myth. Some people think scientific innovation is illusion. However, with patience, they get to understand better.
Exactly my friend
Your approach towards this topic is really beautiful. I like the way you organized your context and presented it, the man from the 60's will be willing to buy this gadget for a very good price