I doubt that. My mother, who is in her 60s, manages to do quite a few things on her computer and on the internet.
I never said anyone in their 40s and up were unable to handle computers. I'm older than him, and I've been on the net since early days. However, there is a big difference between being part of the net and using it as a communication device, or using it as a tool to get things. Use it to communicate and you soon learn to write almost as casual as you speak. I admit when I first started using the 'net, I had a habbit of writing everything like I was writing a letter to someone. It took a bit before I learned to write conversation with people like I was talking, not letter writing.
People were saying that he sounded like he was a young kid. I'm saying he sounded more like someone who was older and new to the ways of communicating on the internet. His little heartfelt speech sounded exactly like something someone would write for a school assignment or in a letter to someone, which was probably the only time he ever did any serious consistent writing. He came across like someone who wasn't used to IMing and all the "Chat" that goes on in the net. That was pretty much a composition. "Why I don't feel accepted in the Sims2 Community."
As for it being a way of losing an argument? Its that way in RL too. Trying to make others feel sorry for you in such a grandiose and pathetic manner is well.....pathetic.
I was actually referring to Godwin's Law of the Usenet.
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