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• Being comfortable with digital isn’t a generational issue - it’s an attitudinal one

  By Matthew Eltringham Verified| BBC Verified My wife is quite proud of the fact that she has one of the old ‘candy bar’ mobile phones that makes calls and nothing else. She is similarly unrepentant about her refusal to engage with any kind of social media, which she describes as an “evil time leech”. I try very hard not to point out the irony of her position when she can be found most evenings hunched over Mumsnet, or when she gets lost in the car and calls me up for directions that I then supply from my smartphone app.

  By Matthew Eltringham Verified · BBC

  Jan. 14, 2015

• Being comfortable with digital isn’t a generational issue - it’s an attitudinal one

  By Matthew Eltringham Verified| BBC Verified My wife is quite proud of the fact that she has one of the old ‘candy bar’ mobile phones that makes calls and nothing else. She is similarly unrepentant about her refusal to engage with any kind of social media, which she describes as an “evil time leech”. I try very hard not to point out the irony of her position when she can be found most evenings hunched over Mumsnet, or when she gets lost in the car and calls me up for directions that I then supply from my smartphone app.

  By Matthew Eltringham Verified · BBC

  Jan. 14, 2015

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