Agree on a Goal for Each Conversation

Begin every conversation with a friendly greeting. Then make sure you understand exactly what your partner wants to know or accomplish. If you only have 10-15 minutes and they want to learn everything you know about social media, or texting, or taking pictures on their phone, you'll need to plan multiple conversations. Come to agreement on a goal that you feel you can both accomplish in the amount of time you have together.

For example, you might start a conversation with something like, "Hi, I'm Max. Thanks for working with me today. We have about 15 minutes together, so what's the most important thing you want to accomplish today?"

If your companion wants to know all the ins and outs of a social media platform, like understanding how to use TikTok, you can narrow that down and set up the possibility for additional help sessions. You can reply, "There's a lot to using TikTok, so why don't you tell me a topic you're interested in this week. We can get started by looking for TikTok videos on that topic. The next time we meet we can talk about finding your friends on TikTok and work up to creating your own videos."