For a moment, I thought we had the same parents. My mom doesn't know when to single vs double click, and both my parents lack the ability to visually parse through a screen's worth of buttons, links, and text quickly. Looking for a specific thing to press is like playing "where's waldo."

Hmm, i was thinking about building a chrome extension that can highlight the link/text-field you want to click on. You either can ask it what you want to do (ie: add to cart, bookmark the page, comment, up vote, share, etc), and it would highlight the action on whatever website you're on.

Sometimes I just want to build a chrome extension that standardizes and simplifies the UI on every commonly used website, even if that means cutting their functionalities, but that would be a silly thing to do.

I hear you about newer generations knowing how to use these things. But then I think that my parent's generation will be around for another 30 years, esp since lifespans are increasing. Sure, their demographic may literally be dying off, but that's the richest 10-20% of the population that is crippled using technology.

Crossloop seems interesting -- I'm seeing old links to it still hosted on cnet and other software download sites.

What about smartphones? Do your parents struggle with them? How do you help teach them?