DEAR ABBY: Can people in this society please stop assuming that everyone has a smartphone? Not everyone is willing — or able — to spend $1,000-plus for one. Some of us carry older, less-expensive phones that receive calls and text messages and that’s it.
I just got off a really annoying phone call with the secretary at my elderly mother’s doctor’s office, who said she was sending a link for a video conference on her phone. I said, “Stop, OK? Look, not everyone has an expensive phone!”
Our society forces people to spend big bucks on these toys.
It makes me want to scream into my $30 flip phone. — LOVE MY CHEAP PHONE
DEAR LOVE: Thank you for letting me help you to vent. I understand your frustration because your problem is one I have heard about from other seniors, too. Although technology moves quickly, not everyone is on the cutting edge. Because this is going to happen more and more frequently, for your own sake as well as your mother’s, it’s time you start seriously considering upgrading one or more of your devices.