Action #115

Teach your granny to text

 
This action has been done 1,586 times which means 4,107,740 digi kisses are being sent by grans every year.
 
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  • Georgia McLeish Georgia McLeish and friends did this action and got 5 people to do it too

    Taught my Gran

    My Gran is 92 this year and she is texting like a pro
    it took me about 5 weeks to teach it to her but now she has it.
    When she had her first lesson she typed in numbers instead of letters! people kept on getting texts say stuff like 4563g2673hy4789 and more like that.
    She is sometimes even better than me!!     30 June 2010, 05:22
  • heela heela did this action

    taught my dad

    sadly there's no gran around to teach but i taught my dad and he calls it mail :)
    now i get a message every birthday that i keep until the next one comes around.     24 May 2010, 17:09
  • Amaara_x Amaara_x did this action

    Helping My Granny Text

    It was quite funny actually
    because she didn't exactly understand what the letters were
    there for.     22 April 2010, 13:08
  • aidan farmer aidan farmer did this action

    photo fram

    well i sort of did this i help to save dital photos on to the photo fram 29 March 2010, 08:50
  • danny danny and friends did this action and got 6 people to do it too

    i tought my granny to text she loved it

    wooooo granny granny 19 March 2010, 15:08
  • Jenni Jenni did this action

    OAP Text Speak

    I did this a few years ago over the summer holidays, it took me about the whole summer to finally get my Gran onto a mobile phone! And now she loves it, her language is minimal and text messages generally consist of text speak aka, "k" for ok, "y?" for why? and "u" for you...which makes me laugh as she's always complaining about the language us "young people" use, and how vocabulary nowadays isn't as well used as back in her day :) 10 March 2010, 11:41
  • Konstantin Dankov Konstantin Dankov did this action

    Every time I visit

    I do that action again and again every time I visit my grandmother 24 February 2010, 10:56
  • Louise Cross Louise Cross did this action

    Gran texting me ahhh!

    I've been teaching her for the past few months, but she text me out of the blue this morning if i wanted breakfast - which i did. Although seeing "1 new message - gran" on my phone will take some getting used to! 09 February 2010, 14:19
  • Phoenix R Phoenix R did this action

    txtn

    well i taught my mum to txt today - does that count? 05 February 2010, 19:36
  • conn hitchman conn hitchman did this action

    callum.d

    wat u doin man reportin me ? 05 February 2010, 11:49
  • conn hitchman conn hitchman did this action

    ll

    ll 05 February 2010, 11:31
  • LaMatra LaMatra did this action

    helped elders text

    helped grandpa use skype on his new iphone. often give mom tips on texting language 23 January 2010, 18:08
  • annieeeeeeeeeeee. annieeeeeeeeeeee. did this action

    i love my nanny.

    she can TEXT. 12 January 2010, 14:28
  • Ellie Ellie and friends did this action and got 3 people to do it too

    Help a young child to read their favourite book.

    Helpind a younger child to read a book, not only allows them to learn, but can also allow you to bond with them too. 07 January 2010, 11:29
  • Ana Toshkova did this action

    at certain degree...

    well, i taught my dad how to use the pc, tried to do that with mom, too, but she is not such a persistent student :P also tried to teach my gradnma to use a mobile, but she also didnt really get into it :( am going to try to teach my mom again the basics of pc (how to create a new folder, what the 2 mousebutton are for and sttuff like that) when i have the chance to go back home :) 03 January 2010, 18:29
  • tori flower did this action

    not granny but dad and not text but use the computer

    showing dad how to use the site 24 December 2009, 09:45
  • Nathalia Jordão Nathalia Jordão did this action

    and use Skype!

    SOS Computadores was not enough... ;-) 22 December 2009, 18:50
  • Sammie Banks and friends did this action and got 1 people to do it too

    Did this a couple of years back

    I taught both my grandparents to A) turn on the phone, B) how to find someones namer and ring them, and then C) how to text... theyre both brill now :) 21 December 2009, 01:49
  • Danielle Danielle did this action

    I taught my granddad

    I taught my granddad how to txt and do the faces with the letters and stuff 11 December 2009, 08:54
  • René Turner René Turner did this action

    Teaching Granny to text

    Gosh, yes like someone else wrote here, she connot do it without correct English and punctuation :) gotta luv her 10 December 2009, 14:35
  • Carla Carla did this action

    nana

    my nana is just leefall :) all in with the good technologyyy Ohhh Ayeee!! :) L8azzz 01 December 2009, 15:31
  • Kirsten Kirsten and friends did this action and got 6 people to do it too

    Grans!

    All my friends and there Grans all got together and texted each other! It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fun! 26 November 2009, 11:37
  • Sasha Keeble did this action

    how many times do i need to teach my gran to text?

    well today must have been the 100th time. I'm regularly teaching her how to text, got to love her for texting in Standard English though :) with correct punctuation and everything. but I know by next week she will ask me to teach her yet again.

    & Is it bad that she has a better phone than me?     31 October 2009, 00:26
  • kath-kath-kathrin kath-kath-kathrin did this action

    my nann is ...HIP!

    My nan used to take forver to txt me, i used to ntxt her and it would take an hour for her to txt a two sentenced txt. so i bought her this txt translation book and now SHE'S FASTER AT TXTING THAN ME! GO NANN! XX 20 October 2009, 09:15
  • scott scott did this action

    Teach Granny to text

    my gran was pleased with what i showed her. We had a lot of fun and she helped me with some history for my school work. 20 October 2009, 06:14
  • sam emerson sam emerson did this action

    I taught my granny to txt!

    My granny is called Hannah. I taught her to text. She is lovely, and grasped the aspect well. Well done granny Hannah :) 14 October 2009, 12:27
  • Aaron Aaron did this action

    my nan understands lingo

    It allways stressed me out to see my nan try to text someone, her eyes right up close to the screen touching each button really slow. If i sent her a text it would be at least an hour before i got one back. She allways used to ask me what GR8 or LOL or even KL means whenever she recieved a text. So i decided to take action. I tort my nan how to text and even brought her a dictionary with all the lingo definitions inside. now she can text really fast and needs no help at all shes still a little slow but no way near as slow as B4.
    14 October 2009, 09:36
  • liam williams liam williams and friends did this action and got 67 people to do it too

    yeah i done this

    i gots me ganndsmaz to text me wenz it waz time for maz tea 01 October 2009, 11:04
  • Bobgeldof Bobgeldof did this action

    HEHE

    my name is max and i have taught me granny how to txt 01 October 2009, 10:43
  • clara clara did this action

    Granny! WHSmith

    Hi all After going to help get Granny in the charts a minute ago, I have discovered that not only is it a great price as stated at £2.50, but it's also on BOGOF!!!! So effectively that's £1.25! I got 4!! great pressies! clara. 13 December 2008, 10:26
  • shaky shaky did this action

    how did you meet grandpa?


    One day I asked my grandma about her wedding day. It was just amazing hearing what things were like back then, how she felt like, what she remembered the best... I recommend to everyone to take the time to listen to their granparents talk about their lives.     17 November 2008, 17:15
  • Dorothy Perry Dorothy Perry did this action

    I'm an Octogenarian Grandma who can text!!!

    On seeing the book "Teach your Granny to Text" at Sainsbury's I felt impelled to write this message as I have been texting for several years-am also Computer literate, have a digital camera and print my own photos. My Grand daughter when at Uni, told her colleagues who queried " How can your Nan text you , as she is old ?!!" Her reply " Well - she has a brain, can use her fingers, knows the alphabet and can spell" I am in my 87th year - have Orange Broadband plus live box phone, belong to several forums on the internet, Email , Google, order shopping on line, blog, have Google earth etc;I could go on all day listing my interests Anyone can do it if only they put "1 can't" in their pockets and take out "I can " So come on Grans and Grandpas - join the Silver Surfers It's never too late to start 09 October 2008, 04:58

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