Daughter Judi is teaching Flora, who was widowed three years ago, how to create a Web page. A friend is helping with a Web-based family tree. And Flora, who works making sandwiches at a local deli, is eager to learn stock-trading techniques popular with many of her friends. It's amazing when I find I'm talking to someone in Scotland or England. It's really neat.
Older users tend to stay on line longer, but they surf less.
Many, like Flora, are searching for companionship. Romance doesn't end as you get older. Flora has relationships with several gentlemen. I'm seeing a man right now who I met on the computer. He lives about 30 miles away.