See, I'm not shaking my head at this, really. I don't think these people are dumb or anything, it's just not their world.
This just makes me realize the degree to which most of my world is not nearly as natural and obvious and intuitive as I feel like it is. Almost everything I do during a typical day is wholly incomprehensible to a lot of people in the world.
This is why the iPad was made. For people who just wanna push buttons and say hi to an old high school friend on the Facebook.
I was helping a guy at work to find a local restaurant and it blew his mind to see Google Street View. Then another guy walked in and was like "Holy shit is that live how are you doing that that is AMAZING."
And then I went to Paris and showed them the Eiffel Tower.
Illiteracy apologists are why there's more spam than actual e-mail. You might not need to know how the traffic signal functions, but you do need to be able to understand what red, green, and yellow are supposed to mean.
This is the same boss that, on at least some level of severity, thinks all modern technology has come to us from aliens living on a different dimension/vibrational frequency from us. That hang out in strip clubs.
I wish I were kidding.
In turn, he (age 62) was helping a friend of his (93) figure out his gmail login and password, as he'd forgotten them. Once I explained that his email address was his login we started the process to change his password. My boss suggested to his friend that his password should be his first name. . .which was also in his email address.
The one I remember was when I was hanging around at a tech desk (warehousing, but sometimes us apes have to come out into the light and restock shelves) and overheard a discussion there
Customer was talking about how much she hated her laptop, utterly hated it, wished she didn't have it
But her actual issue was that the iTunes knock-off program she had had "broken" because all the icons were "all grey and faded, there's no colour!" and how that clearly meant the laptop had been corrupted, by us, in some sort of delayed reaction thing when she brought it in a few weeks ago because it was riddled with spyware
Turns out she'd somehow forgotten that she needed to select a file in order to copy or paste or put it on her mp3 player
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remember when chatrooms showed everyones IPs and ping flooding still worked
This is the same boss that, on at least some level of severity, thinks all modern technology has come to us from aliens living on a different dimension/vibrational frequency from us. That hang out in strip clubs.
I wish I were kidding.
In turn, he (age 62) was helping a friend of his (93) figure out his gmail login and password, as he'd forgotten them. Once I explained that his email address was his login we started the process to change his password. My boss suggested to his friend that his password should be his first name. . .which was also in his email address.
I shot that suggestion down.
This is awesome. I kind of wish I were crazy like that some times. Day to day life would be so much weirder.
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edited February 2010
There are always people who don't know what they're doing, no matter how widespread or niche the activity is
I used to do tech support for a company that makes small video monitors for TV broadcasters. Part of calibrating these things is to display an SMPTE color bar pattern on the screen and put clear blue film over the screen, then adjust settings until the colors you see line up. Well, some of the monitors we sold have a "blue mode" built in, so you don't need to carry around the plastic sheet.
It's a single button, labelled "BLUE MODE".
We got calls every day from people - television broadcast professionals - who wanted a refund because everything on the monitor was blue
I don't understand how people who spend a lot of time online, even if it's just facebook, and not grasp the idea of bookmarks and such. They don't have to care about the internet, but why wouldn't they take the time to learn the software they use to get to facebook?
You're making an assumption that users are interested in learning things.
Search for posts by mully in the jobs thread. Her coworker is the kind of people we're dealing with here, just 30 years younger.
I'm still bashing my head into the wall. They might not need to or care at all but god damnit people.
Do you know how your car works? Or how traffic lights are timed? Or how holding patterns at an airport are assigned, or how UPS gets a package to your doorstep, or how adenosine triphosphate is converted into adenosine diphosphate in every cell of your body?
For the most part, you don't need to know how these things work. You may be interested, and you may seek to find out, but if you don't that's not a bad thing.
Sometimes I'll just listen to music on youtube instead of downloading it and putting into a player. That is pretty internet lazy
it's even sillier because you could just use something like grooveshark, or lala, or pandora and not have the excessive resource usage of loading Flash videos that you're not even watching!
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my friend said he would teach me under his "trolling account"
it was called
LoL i pWnZ u
*high fives*
heh
Sorry guys, it's all my fault.
.....wait a minute
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
dude these jerks totally ruined it i am trying to get them outta here
scat you cats
This is why the iPad was made. For people who just wanna push buttons and say hi to an old high school friend on the Facebook.
I was helping a guy at work to find a local restaurant and it blew his mind to see Google Street View. Then another guy walked in and was like "Holy shit is that live how are you doing that that is AMAZING."
And then I went to Paris and showed them the Eiffel Tower.
Not sexually.
haha, that's a great euphemism.
I usually solve this by putting it in terms of mainframes since a large part of the older generation used them.
"Did you ever use a workstation hooked up to a mainframe?"
"Who didn't?"
"Like that, but your e-mails are stored on one now."
Context and analogy make explaining things so much easier.
left that to get a sawmill
he would probably be fucking loaded if he stuck with it, huh?
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
I wish I were kidding.
In turn, he (age 62) was helping a friend of his (93) figure out his gmail login and password, as he'd forgotten them. Once I explained that his email address was his login we started the process to change his password. My boss suggested to his friend that his password should be his first name. . .which was also in his email address.
I shot that suggestion down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrXPcaRlBqo&feature=player_embedded
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
bonus for Naked Cowboy in the intro.
Customer was talking about how much she hated her laptop, utterly hated it, wished she didn't have it
But her actual issue was that the iTunes knock-off program she had had "broken" because all the icons were "all grey and faded, there's no colour!" and how that clearly meant the laptop had been corrupted, by us, in some sort of delayed reaction thing when she brought it in a few weeks ago because it was riddled with spyware
Turns out she'd somehow forgotten that she needed to select a file in order to copy or paste or put it on her mp3 player
This is awesome. I kind of wish I were crazy like that some times. Day to day life would be so much weirder.
I used to do tech support for a company that makes small video monitors for TV broadcasters. Part of calibrating these things is to display an SMPTE color bar pattern on the screen and put clear blue film over the screen, then adjust settings until the colors you see line up. Well, some of the monitors we sold have a "blue mode" built in, so you don't need to carry around the plastic sheet.
It's a single button, labelled "BLUE MODE".
We got calls every day from people - television broadcast professionals - who wanted a refund because everything on the monitor was blue
Well actually. . .
it's even sillier because you could just use something like grooveshark, or lala, or pandora and not have the excessive resource usage of loading Flash videos that you're not even watching!
Holy. Shit.
Like, I cannot comprehend this.
Also I enjoy how they edited a big bold note with "THIS IS NOT FACEBOOK KTHX" into the middle of the article hahaha.
and the first two results are the thread
"HEY MY SKYPE IS GONE, WHY DID YOU DELETE MY SKYPE FROM MY COMPUTER?"
"No mum, it's just logged you out, look, right-click here and press 'log in'".
"WHAT'S MY PASSWORD? WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO MY SKYPE? JUST MAKE IT WORK"
*hangs self*