I think you have highlighted the actual problem - it isn’t age. It could be a mother in their 60s or a technophobe (like me) in my 50s - the ‘offensive’ part of the original question and initial response by others was directed towards age. If I asked why the younger generation is work shy, emotional and sensitive I would, RIGHTLY, be criticised. Everyone is ‘offended nowadays’ because we categorise people too much and give them labels like snowflakes and elderly. I think the original question has been amended to correct the unintentional ‘offensive’ aspect and can be left to rest. I still smile when I think of my husband as elderly but I wasn’t smiling at 5am this morning when he got me up for exercise 
. Wishing everyone a happy LingQ day x
Well, I would ask you how you come to that conclusion. Why should I criticise you for something that is simple your personal perception? If I would assume that you are trying to provoke or just bash on others, then I would criticise it. But I wouldn’t draw such a conclusion simple based on one question. And I would never criticise someone for beeing offensive. Imho their is nothing wrong with offending people if it serves a rational purpose. What I would criticise is, if people make statements without rational arguments or empirical proof, and sticking to it even after beeing made aware of that.
I would disagree here. Yes, we label things. Categorizing aspects of our life is a rather basic human way to deal with their lifes. It’s basically the essence of language. That beeing said we also have tons of labels for opinions people have, or are said to have. But instead of dealing with them we just label them, too.
The issue here however isn’t the labeling. The original post wasn’t using the label “elderly people” as an equivalent for “unable to use technology”. The post was describing people having problems with that kind of technology. Obviously them beeing old was something that they have in common, and that may differentiate them from the people in the posters environment who don’t have that issues.
You can argue that the poster was generalizing his personal experience, and it is completely okay to correct him. However, feeling offended is imho completely unneccessary. Not to say that the elderly responders also generalize, assuming they are representative for other people of their age.
I think you should reread the original post - and save it in your calendar for when you reach 70 
. Either way I’m going back to my LingQ reading - as I said before the original post has been changed and moved on, I suggest you do too. x