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Topic: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....  (Read 3349 times)

djohnson43

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2014, 06:37:54 am »
My parents still get the paper. Mom loves the coupons and sales papers. But she would not be able to go digital. Her cell phone is just a basic flip phone and even with that she doesn't know how to use all the features. And my dad used to be very good with computers but with his eye sight now...

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2014, 08:47:58 pm »
I'm not a senior yet and I'm technologically savvy, but I still prefer my physical paper copy still in both magazines (at least some) and newspapers. I currently subscribe to the Wallstreet Journal and a local newspaper. I don't care what other people think.

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2014, 09:30:28 pm »
I still prefer newspaper than read from pc. :thumbsup:

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2014, 06:24:47 pm »
As an avid reader of newspapers, I sure did appreciate that story. Thanks for sharing it.  :thumbsup:

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2014, 10:00:03 pm »
Had me going, thanks for the giggle.

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #20 on: June 25, 2014, 11:24:09 pm »
lol!  I really did laugh out loud at that.  I've swatted many a fly with a rolled up newspaper!  The younger generation doesn't know what they are missing!  My mom still gets the newspaper at 103!  She says she was born too soon for all this new technology.

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #21 on: June 26, 2014, 12:46:59 pm »
We have the option to have a paid online subscription but you do not have to have the hard copy also.  You pay for that separate if you want it.  I do not have either.  Our paper is a joke.  There is never anything in it.  I can access the local news via a couple of radio stations.  And you can view part of the paper online for free so if there is something in the head lines I can go get one if I need to.

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #22 on: June 26, 2014, 04:44:57 pm »
It's a generational thing.  When my kids are older who knows what'll be around!

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #23 on: June 26, 2014, 05:15:19 pm »
Think all ages could use them...a mix of all the different formats make things interesting....  just to use only one  such as an ipad  would be boring

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #24 on: June 26, 2014, 06:18:29 pm »
Ha - took me a second, but I get it .... lol

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #25 on: June 26, 2014, 08:01:54 pm »
we seniors aare not all up to the electronics they have now  I still read the local paper for locl news can't find that on an ipad

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #26 on: June 26, 2014, 09:56:10 pm »
I still like reading the newspaper and not online.  I use the newspaper for when I paint.  Many uses for newspaper.  Especially washing windows and use the newspaper to dry them off.  Its the ink in the newspaper that makes the windows shine without any streaks.

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #27 on: June 27, 2014, 05:25:42 am »
I haven't bought a newspaper in many years. I don't plan to either. I get my news paper delivered to my inbox. My parents still read the old paper newspaper.

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #28 on: June 27, 2014, 08:41:20 am »
my husband still reads newspapers

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Re: Why Seniors still need NEWSPAPERS....
« Reply #29 on: June 27, 2014, 09:34:13 am »
I don't get the newspaper. It's mostly ads now.

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