As far as comp use, it doesn't seem like it should be that fucking difficult and it's a pain in the ass to have to write to old people I know because they can't do anything online, i mean, the old stamp and letter is something that is of the past.
Why older people get stuck in their ways, i think, is more than some sort of real barrier, a lot of it's just laziness, mental laziness. I heard that my idol, Prince, couldn't really tweet and had no clue of a lot of basic computer functions, the odd thing about that was that he was a pioneer in using the latest technology in the 80's for his music and also was always seeing into the future as far as music and the internet. He was predicting, long before napster, that the internet would be the death knell for the music industry. In true Gemini fashion he was a dual personality in many ways.