This SeniorJournal.com article from January says senior citizens don’t like social networking sites:

Just 7 out of every 100 senior citizens – Americans age 65 or older – have a profile on an online social network – well below the 35 percent of all adult internet users …

No surprise there: Why would senior citizens sign up for twitter, if they’re going to be barraged by intimidating bit.ly links? (If there are other social networking sites, I’m not aware of them. I don’t have time to poke around the internet all day; I’m trying to solve problems.)

Anyway, it’ll be interesting to watch the percentage of seniors using twitter rise over the next few months as more seniors learn of urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com.

Have you told your grandmother about us?