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They probably just don't want to use WhatsApp or any other app designed for teenagers. Stop trying to push your preferences on them and be glad they answer when you call.
WhatsApp is simply calling or texting. You are mixing it up with apps that actually are popular among teenagers. It's not social media.
WhatsApp is great because it is free and international. For instance, if I took my phone to Germany, I wouldn't be able to make regular calls or texts until I had installed a new SIM card. My phone would be useless. But I can still use WhatsApp to call or text, wherever I am, the minute I step off the plane into another country.
If someone doesn't hear or answer my call on WhatsApp, they wouldn't answer my call through AT&T either. So maybe stop giving the OP such a hard time for simply wanting to communicate with his parents.
Ugh. I consider myself to be pretty tech savvy, and I do use my cell phone and watch every single day (connected). HOWEVER, they are fairly new ANDROIDS. Say it ain't so! Hey, they are the same operating system as my laptop, which I am on right now! LOL
My husband who was in his mid sixties, HATED his Apple phone, so he really resisted using it. He had to get one for work (now he wouldn't have to, but he's deceased), and still used his personal Android phone for personal use. Only used the Apple phone for work. Absolutely detested it.
I love my Android phone but I may eventually trade it in for an Apple, who knows. Meanwhile, they are both "smart phones." All it seems to mean now is that we are all 100 percent accessible all the time. Hey, I remember party lines, rotary phones, pay phones, all that jive! Also, records and record players (including Victrolas, though they were before my time), Atari's, and the old Mario Brothers, 8 track tape players, VCRs that cost a month's pay, Blockbuster, dial up internet, tape players and cassette tapes, CDs, you name it. Now my lap top, which is five years old, is older than dirt.
My laptop is only four. LOL. Some of the letters are worn off the keyboard, and every once in the while the fan starts making a noise and I have to hit the area above the keyboard to make it stop. I imagine it's not long for this world.
I have an Android personal phone and an iPhone for work. Not thrilled with the iPhone, and I had the tech guy put my work email on my personal phone, so I hardly use the work one.
Just don’t forget to be patient with them. I’m 62, and my youngest who I had a little later in life loses patience with me. That doesn’t help at all! It makes me even more frustrated and unable to understand what he’s trying to teach me.
I am currently trying to get my parents regularly use and wear the iPhone I bought for them. Any tips and tricks how to make them wear it more often and therefore answer my calls?
"Wear" the phone you bought them? How do you wear a phone? Do you mean at home, or when they go out? (Purse, pocket, whatever.) I ask bc I've missed calls at home, due to the phone being on a different floor than I'm at when it rings. Are you supposed to strap these things to yourself nearly 24/7? Help me out here, OP.
Currently I call them every now and then to see how they are doing. But of course it would be nice to sometimes just sent them a WhatsApp... if they would respond (i.e. use their phones a little more often). My parents are 69 and 71.
Or email? I've had people throw up their hands, roll their eyes, and moan, "Oh, I haven't emailed in YEARS!" Okay, but that doesn't mean they couldn't.
"Wear" the phone you bought them? How do you wear a phone? Do you mean at home, or when they go out? (Purse, pocket, whatever.) I ask bc I've missed calls at home, due to the phone being on a different floor than I'm at when it rings. Are you supposed to strap these things to yourself nearly 24/7? Help me out here, OP.
My 85-year-old mother in law wears hers on a cord around her neck. She is alone a lot, needs a walker, and if she fell, definitely could not get up. So having the phone with her at all times is a really good idea.
I suppose you could call it being a prisoner of the phone, but better than being a prisoner in your house when you fell on the bathroom floor and could do nothing but just lie there.
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