‘I was born in ‘98 and even I struggle’: are old people being isolated by technology?

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In a world moving increasingly online every year, we’re asking people in Newport if they think that older people are being isolated by technology. Tech is moving so quickly, even younger people are struggling to keep up.

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00:00Yeah, I think so, yeah, definitely.

00:02Sometimes I think I even struggle myself.

00:04Do you know what I mean? I feel sorry for them, innit?

00:05I went to the bank earlier on, and it's like, you know,

00:09it's not like, there's not the bodies there that there used to be, is it?

00:12To ask, and people do struggle, don't they, when they're older.

00:14Do you know what I mean? Definitely, innit?

00:15You know, everything is by tap the phone, or, do you know what I mean?

00:18You know, they always kind of deal in cash.

00:20100%, I think so, yeah.

00:22I think I sort of grew up in the middle of it.

00:24I was born in 98, so, like, the first phone I had was a Motorola flip phone.

00:30So, like, I've seen the difference in it.

00:31I've seen people that adapt really well,

00:34and then I've seen people that just can't seem to figure out, like, smartphones and stuff.

00:38And I think that it's not that easy to figure out.

00:41My daddy's 86, and anything technology-wise, you know, online, anything like that,

00:47he's got to ask me, because he can do it.

00:50Even down to banking, he can't even do that, you know?

00:54So, they are being alienated.

00:56I mean, even me, I don't particularly like everything being online.

01:00I'm very excited.

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