I remember back then in the year 2001 when my dad was using the 3310, the phone was scarce and expensive at that time so not everyone was opportune to have one... It was the day that calls business center were still making monies, anyone that dares to open a call center now would pack up in no time because phones are a thing owned by many people now...
I used to pick up the phone whenever my dad is sleeping to play games on it, it is not as if there are plenty of games there, just the snake game, he must not catch me, so I always sneak into his room, pick up the phone and sneak back to the parlor, play for like 20 minutes, and also sneak back to drop it because I fear what he will do if he catches me pressing his phone...
As the year passes, new phones were invented, the Symbian, blackberry then the Asha, and others, but my dad stick with the old model until I traveled home one day and told him people no longer use this kind of phone and told him to buy a smartphone, he obliged and bought one....
Since I was the one that persuaded him into buying one, it is my responsibility to also teach him how to make use of it...
One thing that is common with people from the '60s is that they are not after many things on the smartphone, the list of things they want to know is not much and I will use my dad's own as an example...
Calls: This is the first thing he wanted to learn, since the button are different and the phone is screen touch, he wants to know how to make calls, receive calls, and also search for his contact...
Songs and Videos: He loves to watch films so he also wanted to learn how to play songs and music, I made sure to give him many songs and videos so he can have enough to listen to whenever he wants [music]..
Download: It was the waptrick.com website we use for downloading songs and videos at that time, I helped him to bookmark it and taught him how to get to the page so he can download things he need...
He did not get them at once, I can't count the number of times he called me to teach him all over again, at some point I got tired but then I do not have a choice but to keep repeating it till he finally got it...
Recently I told him to download bank apps but he refused, I told him to open another bank account today as well, but he still refused saying he can't go through bank stress, I told him it is online banking but he was not ready to listen so I gave up...
Teaching people in the 60s how to use smartphones can be tiring, so the best is just to teach them the basic of what they need to know...
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