[BehindBlueEyes]

It can become an either / or proposition with age.

At 80+, with 1-2h left to use outside self care, chores and naps independently, you go where you get social connections (if you can even sit in front of a computer without experiencing pain). Facebook lets you reconnect with extended relatives, friends from old blogging/web rings that shut down, kids and grand kids are on there... You can post a couple stories and/or share some photos in those 2 available hours, see comments on previous ones and see what happens in other people's lives, comment on their posts...

Compare that to hand coding (proudly still using front page), fixing inevitable bugs, figuring out over and over again how to use FileZilla and connect to your servers and publish the update ... Those 2h likely won't be enough to publish a single page, and you won't interact with anyone during that time. There's no time (nor interest) to learn a whole new system either that would make this easier in the long run, and why would you when there is an easier to use alternative that fulfills the need anyway?

And this is using examples from people i know that have an interest and some basic skills in web programming and overall comfortable with computers, which isn't that common i assume.