Ari "Two Elements" Jackson on Nostr: Do any of you #tech people know about any #online safety classes for #seniors that I ...
Do any of you #tech people know about any #online safety classes for #seniors that I could direct my mom to?
She keeps repeatedly making the same mistakes, clicking on websites that she shouldn't go to, and downloading things to her #computer that end up sending her spammy notifications about how she needs virus protection, etc.
She clicks on those because she believes they are real and they flash up so quickly that she can't see that the URL is a fishy one. Then she puts her card number in -- and then she gets money stolen from her. Then she messages me and tells me that she messed up again and asks if I can come "fix" her computer.
The answer is no! I don't have time right now! I am sick today and I still have commitments I have to meet until 930 P.M. tonight. My sister and I can't figure out if this is just a plea for attention, if she's bored, or just what the hell she's doing.
So here she is, getting money stolen from her because she's bored and clicking on the wrong things -- probably on Facebook.
No amount of conversation or information from her children is sinking into her head. No amount of chiding, putting a post it note next to the computer, showing her what the URLs look like -- that they are clearly not official -- nothing works!
We've had this conversation a dozen times and she's still does the same thing. She's had hundreds if not thousands of dollars stolen from her because she must believe that computers are benign and that *she's* not doing anything wrong online (she's smart, so she thinks she's smart about computers -- but she isn't). We've had so many conversations about bad actors that I feel like a broken record.
I have resorted to taking her computer away from her in the past. I got her an iPad with an external keyboard, which seemed a little bit safer, but she "hated" it.
This last year, she bought herself a MacBook Neo, which runs on an iPhone chip, so I thought it would be a little bit less prone to mom fails, but somehow she's still downloading things that shouldn't be on there.
I wish there were parental controls on computers for seniors! 😩😩😩
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