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A Family Complaint
11 years ago
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Anyone else have to deal with family who never jumped on the internet band wagon? I mean constantly be bothered to get them stuff online because they can't find stuff at the brick and mortar stores?
Yea, my damn sibling wants me to get them more syfy movie crap online... you know the movies like robocroc, mega shark vs robo shark, sharkpussy....
What's worst is amazon thinks I'm into this kind of bullshit.
Don't get me started on my ungrateful father who I spent $700 on getting him a laptop and hardware that lets him use my internet. When trying to show him stuff, "You're going too fast!" "This shit is too complicated!" "Why can't they make things simple?!" "I want to take a sledge hammer to this thing!"
This is a guy who can build a house with his own two hands, who is a tool and die maker and yet computers are too hard for him. I'm still trying to grasp how someone so skilled at learning how to build things isn't so skillful at learning computers. You think I had anyone holding my hand when it came to learning on how to use computers? Hell moving from a school district which didn't require you to use them to one that did never scared me one bit... since well I would pretend I was G.I. Joe launching missiles at cobra!... *Cough* I'll shut up now.
Yea, my damn sibling wants me to get them more syfy movie crap online... you know the movies like robocroc, mega shark vs robo shark, sharkpussy....
What's worst is amazon thinks I'm into this kind of bullshit.
Don't get me started on my ungrateful father who I spent $700 on getting him a laptop and hardware that lets him use my internet. When trying to show him stuff, "You're going too fast!" "This shit is too complicated!" "Why can't they make things simple?!" "I want to take a sledge hammer to this thing!"
This is a guy who can build a house with his own two hands, who is a tool and die maker and yet computers are too hard for him. I'm still trying to grasp how someone so skilled at learning how to build things isn't so skillful at learning computers. You think I had anyone holding my hand when it came to learning on how to use computers? Hell moving from a school district which didn't require you to use them to one that did never scared me one bit... since well I would pretend I was G.I. Joe launching missiles at cobra!... *Cough* I'll shut up now.
Even my mom learned how to use a pc. Still kinda confused at times, but she knows how to eventually get to what she was looking for. I think its more a case of " Wanting " to learn.
The UI has become soooo easy to navigate over the years....
Interestingly, once they knew they couldn't ask me stuff, suddenly they all figured out how to do it.
My mom still doesn't know google exists... She uses Yahoo for everything.. I learned how to change my IP address faster than she learned how to find my school website.
Some stuff they get fairly well, like google and YouTube. But everything else I have to do to make sure they don't pull up a pop up to a virus site or something.
But all and all, it doesn't bother me too much. But my dad as the same attitude towards them and gets irritated with them in about five minutes if they don't take him to what he's looking for.
Shorty guu your an awesome guu keep being awesome guu!
And what was my reward? Having her like feminine hygiene products while logged on with my Facebook page. >_<
Though I figure its only a matter of time before she tries to write an email to her doctor and posts it as an FA journal. She still needs me to remind her what the URL bar is.