FIND
YOUR
SOUL MATE
People over 50 are
the fastest-growing
group visiting
online dating sites.
Not all networking
leads to romance.
But—romantic or
otherwise—about
half of boomers who
go online maintain
a profile on at least
one social network.
That’s how Nancy
Clark, 76, met her
current flame, Gene
Young, 71: They
bonded over recipes
in a cooking group at
Eons.com, an online
community aimed
at boomers.
“I met Gene in
‘Cooking for One or
Two, ’” says Clark.
“After my husband
passed away, dinner
was the loneliest
time for me. Gene
and I sometimes
Skype over dinner,
showing each other
our concoctions on
our computers.”
LISTEN
TO THE
EX P E R TS
We asked some New York kids for
their top tips on the digital life
“Listen to Pandora [a free
music-recommendation service
at pandora.com]. You choose
a song, artist, or genre you like
and it plays music that’s simi-
lar. It’s really good for discover-
ing new artists.” —ARIANA DIPRETA, 15
“One time my mom couldn’t
figure out how to connect her
laptop to the printer wirelessly,
so I had to do that. I went to the
computer’s Help menu. Help
really does help.” —ARIANA
“For grownups, Facebook is
great because you can reconnect with friends from camp
when you were 10. But it’s really
distracting, so watch out. I can
think, ‘I’ll just check one thing,’
and half an hour later I’m still
on it.” — KAYLA CON WAY, 15
“ Hulu.com has all the TV shows.
On You Tube I learned how to
skip through the commercials:
Rate them with a thumbs-up
or -down and they go away.”
—MARLON SMI TH JR., 10
“The advantage of an iPhone
over a BlackBerry is I can put
it on speaker and play games
while talking to my mother on
it. You disable the sound on the
game.” —MARLON
TECHSPEAK
SHORTHAND
WE LIKE
BTDTGTS
Been There,
Done That,
Got [the] T-Shirt
URGYM
You Are
Grounded,
Young Man
KLOS
Kids Looking
Over Shoulder
SLAP
Show [a] Little
Aretha, Please
SITCOM
Single Income,
Two Children,
Oppressive Mortgage
ROTFE
Rolling On
The Floor
Exercising
