I am a Luddite, too. TOTAL technophobe! But I took the plunge and now I'm enjoying it quite a bit! If I can do it, you can become a master at it, because I know I'm at the absolute bottom of the barrel when it comes to understanding anything with buttons or "command" keys.
It does take a little time, but all you have to do is start reading around. If you go up to that long narrow horizontal space at the top of your screen where you can type in "Google" or whatever (I'm so lame I don't even know what the name of that space is), just type in Joy Reid, or The Rude Pundit, or Rachel Maddow, or Chuck Schumer, or Elizabeth Warren (or somebody whose Twitter name is at the bottom of an article they wrote in the NYTimes or Washington Post or HuffPo or some such, whoever you want to read more from), and in the little thing that drops down from up there, you'll see a bunch of choices. One of 'em is bound to be, for example, "Elizabeth Warren twitter". Click on that and it'll take you to a Google page that has her Twitter address. It'll have the "@" thingie in front of everything.
Please forgive me if you know all this already. You have no idea how long it took me to understand something this simple! I mean - I still don't know what the name of that long narrow horizontal space is, up at the top of the screen. Mine, right now, has
"democraticunderground.com" showing on it. I just started reading. And I'm learning more, bit by bit, just by observing.
I'm pretty good at understanding emails, but strictly at an entry level.
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