My mother bought her very first smartphone on March this year.
It was the first time she saw a need for one, or rather that’s what she said.
She has been a high school teacher for the last 35 years. By now you must have already figured out she’s a boomer.
Before the authorities in Kenya closed down schools in March, following a surge in Covid-19 cases, she had just been okay with an old beat-up feature phone she’d owned for close to a decade.
(I took the old phone and I’ve been using it to keep tabs with vintage technology)
When we last had a physical meetup on April, she’d already joined WhatsApp.
It came as a shock to me given how she loathed social media technology in the past. She’d say youngsters exhibit anti social behavior due to technology.
But I was pleased she’d finally embraced technology.
And I can’t deny I got stirred up by the whole development, which I believe points to even more older people adopting and accepting technology, considering most would never have without the outbreak of…
