Fortunately we have a vendor here in Oldfashioned Rural Communityland that does wonderful service for their older clients: When the computer stops working, they just offer them another very affordable (reconditioned) model that is easy to plug and play, does adequately on the internet, and doesn't have a lot of fancy bells and whistles to confuse things.

So my dear (old) friend can email me how his wife is doing, when we're going to go play at a senior center, etc.. And he has an unlimited supply of internet jokes that he uses to keep people chuckling wherever he goes. So he's not a genius of message boards-- he can always email me to look for something for him.

~Susan