How come the older you get the dumber you get?

I think our brains get slower as we get older. Think of your brain as a engine that hasn't had an oil change or tune up since it came off the essembly line. Our brains get all clogged up with other things and we lose attention spans faster. With kids thier brains are so unclogged that they can fill them up with technical things faster. Plus when I was growing up computers and tech gadgets where not the norm, kids these days are brought up with them they grow up with gadgets and gizmos to occupy thier time while thier parents are out working. Basically what has helped me is learning the standard buttons on all these things, power button, edit button, menu button, cancel button (thats a life saver) and looking up the "troubleshooting guide" in the manual.

THE medical science says that as we get older the brain cells of our starts to shrink which reduces our memory capacity and the power to think and act logically,thats why when we get older ,we start to get dump,infact childish

I am already old too and yes, I get dumber. I think and act not as fast as before. Perhaps this is because we are too preoccupied with other things, thinking of so many things we ought not to think, which might have arose from the various experiences that we have undergone and with the various problems in life that we are facing. I could hardly contemplate on things in the internet but anyway, I'm trying hard :)

Young people have better eyes. We have to put on reading glasses, and in the case of those who were near-sighted, bifocals or trifocals. Much of the stuff on the digital camera is too small. You have to memorize it and that memory has to go with the other stuff in your mind. I think you have to take your time and read maybe one page of the manual, that is the one on basic operations and master that, then go on to the other parts. Look I have a cell phone, and I have only learned how to play music on it, I do know how to turn it on, and how to dial a number, but that is all. Now I learn I head a head set so I will not get brain cancer, and then is the cost. We are afraid to use it because we might break it, and we do not have as many years as a young person to live before we get a new one.

Most young people are confident that unless you do something like pounding an item, you can not break it. The best way to learn to use a camera or something is to sit down when you have time and play with it. Just keep taking pictures and checking out the buttons, see what they do, what will save a picture, what will delete the picture. Do not get a high tech device and expect to use it to take wedding pictures that day. See it as a hobby and take your time gettting to know it.

yes its normal, ur not alone. in fact all of us experience phobias on technologies. we fear that we may not be able to use them properly. the only difference is that the young generations were more exposed to these stuffs so they know how to use these techies. the adult ones in comparison, has to adjust with the constant advancement and developments on technologies so it takes time for us to learn =) i experienced the same with computers and cellular phones before