My mom is under the impression that whenever something is wrong with the TV, it is automatically my 360's fault or in her words "game boxes" fault. When I say that something is wrong with the TV, I mean it is either, muted, has the video display screen and even one time, been turned off.

My step-dad used to be very knowledgeable with computers... that was ten years ago. He is still stuck in 2000, running windows NT. When I was buying a computer for myself he convinced my mom to buy me a used laptop of Craigslist with 1GB RAM, I am a chemistry major needing to do high definition molecular modeling. When I told him that I needed a GOOD new computer, and I... Read More » showed him a laptop around the specs that I needed and he flipped out saying it was "way too expensive." I had found a great deal on a computer with a new i5 processor 4GB RAM and a nice NVIDIA graphics card for around $500. The laptop of craigslist was $150.

My freshman year my mom would call me every weekend. She wasn't worried or anything, she just wanted to check in, see how things were, and oh yeah - my dad was out of town and she wanted to know how to record a show on the DVR.

My parents are the most computer illiterate people you will ever meet. My dad refuses to even attempt to use a computer, which is actually preferable to my mom's fumbling efforts. Any time she tries to do something, I have to be there in case she needs help, but it is physically painful for me to watch her. For 6 years, any time I told her to click on something, she asked "... Read More »left click, or right click?" It took her even longer to master the art of the double click. She will only use Internet Explorer because she thinks it's "the real one." She actually READS software license agreements. I could go on for hours about every way that she has failed with technology, but the most frustrating thing is that she absolutely CANNOT deal with change of any kind. If a website she visits frequently has been updated, she freezes. By the time she becomes comfortable with it again, it's been updated again. That is why her computer still uses Windows 98, Internet Explorer 4, and an ancient version of Microsoft Office.

My mom do spreadsheets on excel with a calculator on her hand.

In English Comp. my professor was complaining about how "the mouse wont reach over there" when he was using the computer connected to a projector, I asked him if he wanted me to help, he said sure. I walked over and he shows me how the mouse cord only went so far so he cant reach the link on the screen. It never occurred to him to physically pick the mouse up and move it,... Read More » when i showed him how to do this he stated "oh see you know how this technology stuff works".