Jane, stop this crazy thing!: Final project: Aging with Social Media

The Future is Here!

In the 1960's, The Jetsons, an animated show (we still called them cartoons back then) showed life in the 21st century - push button magic, everything easier - until the humans mess things up. The title of this blog is from the opening sequence - when George gets stuck on the automatic dog-walking treadmill. Sometimes I think social media is like that show - a wonderful move into the future, but dragging along enough human nature to mess things up every now and then.
This blog was created for Dr. Frechette's Social Media class; if you are reading this for examples, assignments are in the posts for 2012 - later posts are simply additional examples of the wisdom that comes with age.

Obligatory cute dog picture

I noticed some issues with Slide-share conversions. Until I get a good transfer, here are some resources related to my presentation on Aging with Social Media. In addition, here is a link to a PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation.

}Web3.0 Accessibility Initiative (http://www.w3.org/WAI/)

}American Association of Retired Persons (www.aarp.com)

}Can technology help us to support the ageing population? http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-care-network/2012/may/30/technology-caring-ageing-older-society

}AARP Foundation Isolation Survey http://www.aarp.org/aarp-foundation/our-work/isolation/info-2012/alone-and-at-risk-isolation-survey.html

}Pew Internet & American Life Project http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Older-adults-and-internet-use.aspx

}Social Network Demogaphics in 2012 http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/08/21/report-social-network-demographics-in-2012/

}Aging Online – Technical and Social Media for Seniors http://www.aging-online.com/

}Social Media Users are Older http://fastwonderblog.com/2009/04/27/social-media-users-are-older-and-more-business-like-than-you-think/

}Your Fear of Social Media—Your Older Target Audience is Within Reach http://www.socialearth.org/your-fear-of-social-media%E2%80%94your-older-target-audience-is-within-reach

}"A little silly and empty-headed": older adults' understandings of social networking sites http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1671017

}Demographics on mobile social media from Nielson http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/for-social-networking-women-use-mobile-more-than-men/

}U.S Census Data: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf