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"Third age people matter"

I truly believe that people aged 60 and over have more to contribute to society, than is ever recognised except, of course, those involved in certain areas of work such as media,pop music,acting,the Royal Family etc.
The Queen of England is 82 years of age, yet she appears to carry out similar duties to those she carried out many moons ago. To name a few other oldies - Bruce Forsyth, Michael Parkinson, Barbara Winsdor, and last but not least Noel Edmunds who looks and skips around on his programme - Deal or no Deal, like a man 20 years younger. However, when it comes to the over 60s of working class, they seem to be considered for nothing more than to be "put out to graze".

Perhaps it is time for over 60s to pave the way for themselves - don't just park yourselves in front of the TV and become fat and depressed. Get out and do something worthwhile - that means find the thing you would most love to do, and just do it. Perhaps numbers of people of the third age don't know how to use a computer, and think that they are too old to learn. I believe that no individual is too old to learn to do something that they always wanted to do, but was never given the opportunity. So now is the time, do some research, improve your lifestyle, and make a contribution.

Thanks Everpain for your words of wisdom.
However the pages of the weekly puplication Computing do report quite frequently on this issue of 'age', 'experience' and 'ageism' within IT :)

Thanks. My view is that if one wants to be trusted, one has to trust others. I truly believe that what one thinks is what one gets.

Thanks Dragonlance. Keep up the good work - I wonder how many young ones are self-taught in web site creation.

Thanks. Very good point.