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"As the number of\u00A0seniors\u00A0using the internet slowly increases\u00A0services\u00A0that make the internet easier to understand and\u00A0operate\u00A0are also growing.\u00A0Undoubtedly\u00A0the need to make operating and understanding\u00A0the Internet should decrease as Generation Zuckerberg\u00A0matures. However till that happens there are a number of \u00A0services that exist to help the non-tech\u00A0savvy\u00A0elderly jump into the\u00A0glorious\u00A0world of the internet.\r\n\r\nInternet Buttons, is a website launched by the very wonderful, We Are What We Do a British charity. The site is part of their current campaign, it was funded by The Nominet Trust. It was setup to help bring online the current 6.4 million offline seniors over 65 years old in the United Kingdom.\r\n\r\nThe website/web app is clean, colorful and expectedly easy to use. You are asked to either create an account for yourself or create an account on behalf of another person. My mother is 56 years old, she doesn't totally fit the demographics of \u00A0this campaign, however English is her third language and she is often scared of breaking the Internet. Creating a profile on her behalf was exceptionally easy, you are asked to edit the buttons with the\u00A0desired\u00A0URL, then create a password for the person you are creating the account on behalf of. The \u00A0page of buttons receives a lovely unique URL and you are sent a 'card' with the details, to share with the person you are creating the page for. There is even a side bar on the left of the page that you can setup with helps and hints. The prominent emergency contact number does feel a little\u00A0condescending, but could be\u00A0reassuring to some.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI will be sending this page to my mum with her password, however I doubt she will use this as she\u00A0genuinely\u00A0has very little interest in the internet, and thinks that; &amp;quot;young people, need to get away from their computers and go out more.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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