And this week's IAMC award goes to -
Bloooo Mooooon, you saw me standing alone: Pamela Stevenson Connolly admits: I wish there was an easy way forward, but there is not.
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But nul points for this article: It’s a keenly observed study* that those of us who are young, or relatively young, know all too well when it comes to parents and technology. It is less amusing when it isn’t one’s mum who’s not 100% sure what the shift key is for, or that the “internet” and the “web” aren’t interchangeable, but the people with responsibility for the smooth running of our country.
*Decoded as: Anecdotes exchanged between me and my millennial mates in some hipster hangout.
Being entirely with it about social media is not actually the same as having a sound appreciation of The Internet And Its Problems, and you do not need to be a coding whiz to understand the general principles of online security.
Also have a feeling that when there was a dodgy email got through my former place of works barriers and into everyone's inboxes, it was not the older members of staff who were clicking on the link in spite of the generally very suspect look of the thing.
(Or is it just that I R a paranoid hedjog?)
How old are these people who claim that their mums No Nuffink about computers? - their mums are probably a generation younger than I am and at least grew up with computers, even if it was the dialup age of the internet.
Will concede that the actual gumment do not cover themselves with glory on the issue, but I am come to a time of life when a significant number of politicians, like policemen and doctors, look awfully young for such responsibility. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2603910.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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