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Subject: Does anyone else have parents that aren't so smart with computers?

'How do you google?'

Sitting on my Google homepage.

  • 06.19.2012 5:33 PM PDT
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My mom can't find the "on" button on our computers. Yet she "uses computers every day at work". Of course, they're basically terminals with fifteen year old programs on them that are never turned off.

Dad can use a computer, but has a habit of screwing things up, such as his email, work programs, and printer or scanner. He also doesn't know how to make folders, or add favourites to his browser. The desktop is filled with links to craigslist or kijiji ads.

He once uninstalled every scanner driver because he wanted to "clean up" his computer. Since it was an older scanner, my brother spent an hour just hunting for the driver disc.

But God forbid if you try to make things easier for him. He finds websites he visits a lot by clicking on the drop down list for the address bar and scrolling until he finds it. When I offered to add the websites to his favourites bar and wipe his browsing history, he flipped because he didn't want to lose some "important website" (Read: Some Craigslist ad).

  • 06.19.2012 5:54 PM PDT

My parents still use Internet Explorer, if that tells you anything.

  • 06.19.2012 5:56 PM PDT

I have no patience when it comes to helping my father do anything on a computer.

  • 06.19.2012 5:57 PM PDT

Most people who don't know a lot about computers think everything is a virus, from my experience :/

  • 06.19.2012 6:00 PM PDT

-I was here

My mom does not know how to use a computer worth a crap. She had -blam!- her laptop up so that it hardly worked, then blamed it on me for installing chrome so I wouldn't have to use IE, even though it was messed up long before that.

Also, if I had a dollar for every time she's come yelling at me to tell her how to type a smiley face, I'd be a very rich man.

  • 06.19.2012 6:00 PM PDT
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Sometimes starting back from square one does good...

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Not really, my mother used to do many things in late 80's ranging from databases to special effects and misc programs. My father around the same thing, but for more practical uses.

But when it comes to new things, I have most cards well played.

  • 06.19.2012 6:03 PM PDT

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