Celery: Twitter made easy for the elderly  

I think the whole idea of Celery is both positive and negative. I mean it does allow for the elderly who currently do not know how to use new technology to keep in touch with loved ones. However, it does hinder them from being able to learn how to actually use new technology as well. In general, the elderly just refuse to learn about new technology when it is actually much easier than they would expect. Celery adds in extra steps to the process of posting on Twitter. I think Celery is a clever idea given their target, but I feel the elderly should be more open to learning new things as well.

Celery = fax to twitter using the celery machine. I can see why they might think that this is a viable business model but can they really survive? I think this is questionable. I agree that senior citizens should start using more technology and a large percentage today are trying to. A voice recognition system would probably work a lot better. I use on my phone and it has been able to transcribe almost everything perfectly so far. I am not sure that this model will take off.

Although this technology is not something that I believe would be picked up by the majority of senior citizens, I do believe that those who do pick it up will be constant with it. Despite the few who would adapt, it is not something that could survive long at all. Because the demographic is older, they will be dying off. Anyone younger than them will be assimilated to computers by the time they get to the age where this would be used.

I think this is ridiculous. I think it would be just as difficult to show my grandparents how to fax to a computer then it would be to just show them how to use twitter. This is a waste of time and energy in my opinion... but good try.

I can see this service dying within the next 20 years along with their demographic. I've only used fax machines a few times in my life and it was very irritating. For those who don't have a computer at all, this will be useful but if I remember correctly, fax transmissions are still slower than modern dial-up systems.

Twitter is not a difficult site, especially if all you want to do is talk to your family.All you have to do is sign in and then write what you want to say in your text box, then hit updated. As long as you have 5 minutes you could teach anyone how to use the sight. Celery seems much more difficult and time consuming then just using Twitter.

I think that this is a very creative and original new business model for twitter however I think that in the long run this idea will bring some disadvantages. If elderly only learn how to fax-to-twitter and do not learn anything else they will become more and more dependent on twitter. This could become a problem in the future since monopolies are never the best option. Therefore, I believe that if the main objective is to offer the elderly the benefits of new social medias. They should first be taught the basics and then teach them how to use different social media websites for them to have options and decide for themselves which one they want to use.