Posted by TikTok star Grandad Billy on his love for technology, living through history and becoming internet sensation
82-year-old Billy has the responsibility of being the nation’s beloved grandad, from ziplining to dancing on the table, the man has no limits
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The people of Ireland were living in fear on 12 March 2020, we were stocking up on toilet roll, staying inside and preparing for a huge lockdown.
When Leo Varadkar was announcing the nation’s first lockdown, Grandad Billy was sitting in McDonald’s without a care in the world. Instead of living in fear, Mr Kennedy was loving life and enjoying a Big Mac.
As the lockdown continued, Billy found himself a bit bored and that’s when his granddaughter, Aine decided that they could make some TikTok’s to pass the time.
Two years later, 82-year-old Billy has the responsibility of being the nation’s beloved grandad. From ziplining to dancing on the table, the man has no limits. He’s up for the craic and he certainly proves that age is just a number.
Billy told Dublin Live: “Technology is great, we didn’t have a telly when I was young.
“I was 22 when RTE started, there was Radio Eireann, it wasn’t RTE. I love technology.
“My father was 92 when he died and he died in 1992. He loved technology, when the microwave ovens came out he was using them in no time.
“I could spend an hour looking at TikTok, maybe even two hours, time flies.
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Fred has to say you are a hero for older people. Yes technology can be hindrance because the dexterity has deteriorated but the technology adapts towards the person. TikTok is about 1 minute to captivate an audience and it has emerged as the new success sidelining Facebook now Metaverse. For people with disabilities, the computer and social media is excellent. Twitter enables people with ill-health and low stamina to enter the virtual community of others. You can scroll and bit by bit you find people with similar interests or in similar situations to you. Recently a Wendy Mitchell who was diagnosed with early onset dementia at the young age of 58 has become the icon for those in neuroscience who tell us yes we may have dementia or alzheimers but we can delay its impasse by working the brain. The computer is an excellent vehicle. Recently on the Tommie Tiernan show a woman with alzheimers spoke with such eloquence and assauged the fears of many that if you work out a plan, it is possible to stave off the onset and this is a message we all need to know. So Billy, I love you for your enthusiasm during COVID-19. Well done to your granddaughter too. Keep going. If you ever want a bassett hound to appear with you…why not me…I am getting on in doggie years too. My sense of smell means I don’t have memory problems. I just use the power of scent.,
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