Grandma On Facebook? Sure, Seniors Say As They Learn Computers

College Students Help Post 70s Get Tech-Savvy

Two months ago, Rosemary Nickola struggled to find her email, couldn't tell the difference between spam messages and genuine communication, and had no idea what Facebook was.

"Spacebook?! What's spacebook?" she replied when Pace University student Alice Simmons asked her back in February if she was familiar with Facebook, the social networking site.

But on Monday, Nickola held a certificate of achievement in her hands, having completed a computer course that is bringing together the 70-, 80- and 90-something crowd with university students in a program that is disproving the idea that technology is best left to the young.

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