Reply #4: When AOL was king, I found that many seniors either took the forums too seriously...

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... or too personally. I have often thought that my mother would enjoy forums, but at the same time I can see her turning off the computer for good if she got enough of the rudeness and anonymous craziness.

She does like many of the read only sites she had been directed to over the years, but she has never shown any evidence of surfing per se.