While some older people remain offline, many are enthusiastic users of the internet. These 'silver surfers' are able to keep in touch with children and grandchildren, as well as the wider online world, offering their insights and opinions no matter where they happen to live. And to paraphrase a line from a famous New Yorker cartoon, "on the internet, nobody knows you're an OAP". In other words, age discrimination, mobility problems and other age-related issues typically have little relevance in your online life. Plenty of grandparents already use Skype and its emulators to make video calls to distant children, and the market for connecting families is attracting more innovators. A company called Ceiva has developed a digital photo frame that allows you to send pictures wirelessly for display to whoever owns the frame - a grandparent, perhaps?
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