The misadventures of a daughter teaching her senior parents about texting and social media

There will come a time when your parental responsibility and your career are changed. You then prevent your parents from downloading bugs into their devices, which they previously prevented you from doing when you were a child. The switch- around could n’t be more apparent than when you’re trying to impart the ways of Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp to them.

Take my people, for example. It’s been years since my brother and I hooked them up to cyberspace, and I’m still familiarising them with screen gestures such as tapping, swiping up and holding for two seconds … no, that’s a tap if you do n’t keep your finger on the screen. No, you have to keep within that package, not somewhere else. It’ll work alaikum, only wait.

For someone who it n’t totter faster than a child learning his first steps, my 79- yr- aged father is particularly impatient with technology. &nbsp, I pray every day to the technology angels for compassion, mostly for myself nevertheless. But I have been quite unhappy. The solution for technical support nearly always comes before an urgent job date with an oddly written message for as: How&nbsp, to&nbsp, send&nbsp, &nbsp, photo&nbsp, &nbsp,?

My father’s words information space out the words in that way. When he forwards me mail, this man writes in cursive and attaches notes that begin with” Dear Khim.” ( Just to be clear, I am talking about mail in its physical form. )

But when it comes to language messages, all laws are out of the screen.