Wanna Get Your Grandma in the Selfie Game? This Selfie School Can Help
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While technology classes for seniors are something of the 2000s, you can bring your grandparents into the new media of 2019 by enrolling them in this selfie school.
It may be quite an investment for you considering the class is only offered in Bloomingdale, Illinois, but we're sure the price is well worth the satisfaction you'll receive to see grandma finally posting a selfie with some flair.
The classes, which are held in the Greenfield of Geneva Retirement Community, is thanks in part to Stratford Square, a selfie studio the retirement community paired up with.
"We really wanted to bridge that gap between seniors and social media," said the selfie studio owner Joe O'Connell.
Not only did the seniors learn how to use their phones to take pictures of themselves, but they also learned how to take the best selfies with weird and colorful backdrops.
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Kathleen Dix, a senior who participated in the first class, said, "I liked it, but I would like to think I'm better looking than what came out in my pictures."
And to be honest, so do most of us. I think they've got the hang of it after all.
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