Idiotech

I've seen people doing this time and time again, open browser (homepage is google) / search for google in google / access google again / search for the site they want ie.facebook / access facebook. No knowledge what so ever of address bar or bookmarks. Worst thing is i'm not talking about the elderly, this are people around my own age.

February 22, 2012

I used to work at a computer store, as tech support. One day a woman in her 30's comes in and tells me she couldn't install her brand new printer. So I take the user manual, show her all the steps and she tells me she already did those but that when she's done, an error message pops up on the screen. She then got a piece of paper from her pocket, and read the error message... Read More » she had written down : ''Please connect the USB cable and turn on the machine'' So I asked if she had done this, she replied that she had in fact connected the USB cable but that she didn't think starting her car would be relevant. I then told her ''machine'' meant ''printer'' and then she asked, obviously pissed off, ''How the hell was I supposed to know that ? I thought it meant I'd have to start my car. A machine is a car.'' To this day I still don't know how she got that idea.

February 21, 2012

I work at a restaurant, and on a very busy Saturday night my boss had me take time away from my tables to text somebody a penis, because he couldn't figure out how to do it on his phone... 8======>

February 21, 2012

My father-in-law is one of the most intelligent people I know and there are things he can do with computers that I wouldn't think of and I work in maintainting computers across the globe. Though he has his moments. A year or so ago he drove a car down from our hometown he had bought for us and was planning on getting the train back. He had ordered tickets for collection at... Read More » the station. He was given a code by the website he used to his email. He sat in contemplation for a while before asking me and his daughter for help. He asked if the station had wifi so he could access his email at the station and get to the code. After this fell flat he wondered if he could email the number to his phone but realised he would have the same problem and then wondered if he should leave his computer on and on the email page. I asked him if he thought of using a pen and writing on paper... this hadn't crossed his mind...

February 21, 2012

One day my mom asked me to print off a recipe for her while she was cooking other things. I said alright and proceeded to do so. When I found it I thought the font would be to small to read. So I copied and pasted the recipe onto Microsoft Word and enlarged the font instead and printed it. I gave it to her and she was a little confused I told her I just copied and pasted it... Read More » from the website. Later at dinner she said wow your really learning a lot from your BTT class (This was a few years ago) I had to laugh that she thought I just then learned about copy and paste.

February 21, 2012

My mom doesn't understand that documents aren't 'stored' in Microsoft Word, but it's the only way she knows how to find/open them. Whenever I ask her where she saved a file she can't find, she looks at me like I'm stupid because it was "obviously saved in Word."

February 21, 2012

My parents are fairly tech-savy with gadgets they are familiar with, but they have been unable to watch DVDs on their newer TV for years. For some reason, despite multiple tutorials, they never got the hang of using the TV remote to change the input instead of the cable remote. Because they got rid of their old TV, they couldn't watch any movies, so when I agreed to take a... Read More » look the next time I went home. I demonstrated the steps need to change from cable to the DVD player to my mother, but the input just wouldn't work. The TV was on and the DVD player was on, I just couldn't figure out what was wrong. The problem? The input cables were unplugged. They hadn't been able to watch a DVD on that TV for at least 4 years.

February 20, 2012

With the exception of my brother, no one in my home remotely understands how computers work. So one day I decided to have some fun with my aunt who over for the holidays. I setup screen sharing on two of the macs in the home and waited. Little did I know the chaos that would ensue. After a few hours of some text edit speech I got my aunt to throw a blanket over the iMac... Read More » change her passwords on all her accounts and close her bank account.

February 20, 2012

For a Boy Scout merit badge, I had to go to the computer department in the local library. Being ten, I didn't know how tabs worked and minimized the page I was on to open a new one. After I had minimized the page, one of the Library Workers, who actually works in the computer department, came over and asked me why I had exited the page she helped me find. I then clicked on... Read More » the minimized page and she responded with "Oh." For some reason, she didn't help me with the rest of the merit badge.

February 21, 2012

My mother bought a new gateway computer years ago and it she spent about 3 hours trying to hook it up. She finally gave up, and left the room. So I came in and did it in 15 minutes. She came back and asked how I did it. I told her it was because the wires were color coded. In all that time she couldn't figure it out. I was five.

February 18, 2012

When I had made my first Facebook, way back in the day, my parents sat me down to discuss my "interests". Confused, I sat down with them. They thought that I was being to inappropriate on the section that is labeled "interested in", ya know, the one that says if you like guys or gals. Even more confused, I asked what that meant. They thought that it meant... Read More » my hobbies and aspirations rather than preferences. Even today they still think I have dirty adventures

February 18, 2012

Growing up, my Dad was the techie of our house; we always had the latest sound systems and televisions available. When it came to portable, personal music devices, I had top of the line products (cassette player, Discman, mini-disc player, mP3 player) thanks to him. So last Christmas I decided to show my appreciation by buying him an engraved iPod nano. I figured since he... Read More » used to enjoy his transistor radio as a teen, cassette player as a young adult, and Discman as an adult, he'd love the user friendly iPod. On Boxing Day, I sat down with my Dad and began describing how easy it was to put music on his iPod. I said "First you download iTunes. Then you buy music either with a gift card or your credit card. Then you sync the music to your iPod by plugging the cord into your computer." He didn't even get through downloading iTunes before he set the iPod to the side, jumped up from the table and said "I can't do it...this is a LIFESTYLE CHANGE!!" and walked away. My brother now uses the engraved iPod as a backup.

February 18, 2012

I was having trouble with my mother's computer (It freezes a lot) and her boyfriend told me "Just use internet explorer, it's more reliable than Chrome." I have never heard those words in that order before in my entire life. Also, I'm not sure how he thought that would relate to the frozen-ness of the computer.

February 17, 2012

my dad gave me a free phone and got himself a droid. Every few days he gets mad and throws it because it take more than one button to make a phone call. Ive seen it hit the walls, concrete, etc. Girls in school have iPhones that dont last 1 day. They fall off a desk and explode. My dad tries to break his droid and it doesnt even get scratched. Suck on that Apple.

February 17, 2012

I was listening to dubstep (of all things) on my laptop and my grandmother walks in and asks me if the tape was sticking

February 17, 2012

My Dad thought that he could somehow "hack" into my laptop from his desktop, and control my cursor as well as watch my activity. He proudly stated that this was possible because "The desktop is hooked up to the router, which regulates your laptops internet flow". He was extremely disappointed when his theory failed to work.

February 17, 2012

When helping my Mom set up her first e-mail account, I was simply dictating from the couch across the room from the computer. I told her to go to Hotmail.com. Not having too much computer sense, my Mom looks up "Hotmale.com." I think you can imagine what kind of site that is.

February 17, 2012

I come from a very traditional foreign family. Expectedly, we( rather they..) make an exhuasting effort to abide by nonsensical social rules. Anyway, my mother and i are friends on facebook, through no choice of my own, but I figured out a way to block her from seeing anything that would insult her. We operate on the belief that she can see everything on my facebook but she... Read More » is too technology handicapped to see that she is under the strictest privacy control. On Valentines day, I shared a video called 'the inside view of a kiss - GROSS' without realising that the new facebook layout had quietly altered my previous privacy settings. I wake up the next morning, to find 30 missed calls on my phone, and countless facebook messages from my mother. She said I brought shame to her, and asked me how I could possibly think to look up "unsutable bad pictures". She then went on to claim that now that I study abroad, she reasoned that I had been abducted by and hypnotized by sinners and their 'tools'. The worst part about this is I have a ticket booked back home in a week.

February 17, 2012

I used to work for a chinese computer company that no longer exists; one Christmas Eve a man comes into the store right as we are closing and counting money and insists that we start up the Point of Sale system again and sell him the video card he reserved online. We tell him that the computers have been shut down and all the transactions of the day batched and sent to the... Read More » credit card vendor. He keeps telling us that it's already paid for etc. and we keep telling him we can't process any more transactions until the morning of Dec. 26th. He then takes out a revolver and makes us lay on the floor while he steals the cash drawers and takes off. Turns out he had in fact reserved the video card online and his full name, address and phone number were in the system along with his email address; i bet his New Year sucked.

February 16, 2012

I got my dad an ipod for christmas last year(2010). Last week he asked me how to put songs on it, he asked his students once(he's a teacher), but still didn't get it and was too embarrassed to ask again. He's been listening to the same 12 songs for a year.

February 16, 2012