OMG, here is the thread addressing all my current woes.
I too am a Granny and using what I've always used, IE and Word.
But sensitive to what the younguns advise, I've also added Foxfire and Google Chrome, and I have recently discovered that most of my woes stem from that.
No matter how many times I try, a download of Adobe Flash will not let me play videos on IE. I have to go to Google effing Chrome to see them.
And Google elbows its way into what I am viewing to suggest that I look at something else, when the mouse passes over certain underlined words in FB or accessed sites, I get messages to read something else.
It is, at the least annoying and breaks into my thought when I'm trying to get a handle on some issue, and at the most, soberly frightening, when I realize that all this interchange is being saved somewhere to monitor and define me, and to tailor my access to information by channeling me to purchase something or give up thinking entirely.
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