Google continues to patronise older people

Steve Hards

In August last year we pointed out Google’s toe-curlingly condescending approach to older people and video chat. Later, in December, they decided to do the same for ‘parents’. Google Launches Site for Teaching Tech to Your Parents (Google blog). The instructional videos – the ones I’ve watched, anyway – are actually quite good. But why, oh why, did they feel the need to dress them up like this? http://www.teachparentstech.org/