Is your mom "anti_Computer" ?

[Da1andonly]

Sometimes when my dad comes into my room, sees me playing ss, he thinks for himself that he'll shut that computer down right now!" So he attacks my monitor, presses the monitor button (so it shuts down), then he leaves my room laughing and with a big meanie smile, cause he thinks he shut down my computer.

I've never told him that the monitor on/off button does not turn off the whole computer...I'll let him have his fun :P

[NaiLed]

hahahah da1.

usually wehn i'm playing ss or something my dad wants me to go and do something and tells me to "pause it". i try to tell him it doesnt work like that but he doesnt listen

[Suzie-Q.]

my mum regularly types her email address into the google search bar (are home page with firefox) and then complaines to me when it doesnt work <_<

[Galleleo]

hrm.. my mom knows here way around a computer.

[Pandagirl!]

My mom is ok with computers, but only because my dad and both of my brothers are computer programmers. So, they forced her to at least know how to use the computer. However, she has no idea whatsoever how to work the DVD player. I told her to go put a DVD in for me so it could start loading. She couldn't figure it out. "Press the on button" Where's that? "Bottom left, big bitton that say power on it" Then what? "Put the DVD in" How? "Press the eject button" Do I put the shiny side up or down? "Just like a CD, mom" Which way is that? "Shiny side down." Do I close the tray? "Yes, mom."

Would have been faster to do it myself.

[Twerp]

I have a mom, she is as anti-computer as you could imagine....

My dad, my brothers and I always tease my mom about that. But here, we call it techno-idiot.

[dchao]

My parents think I quit SS a year ago. :innocent:

[Stabwound]

Don't get too high on your horses, in 40 years time it will be us as the "dumb" ones.

I don't agree with that. Most people that play this game were probably born with videogames/computers etc and will probably use them and keep up with them for the rest of their lives.

[Suzie-Q.]

disagree, technology will leave *most* of us behind. not all ofcourse but a fair share. even if they do have a technological life style.

ive only ever played this game, and only coz by brother and boyfriend got me in to it, oh and zelda


Link :wub:

[iNgeNfyRe]

I don't agree with that. Most people that play this game were probably born with videogames/computers etc and will probably use them and keep up with them for the rest of their lives.

agreed. you saved me from typing...oh wait. doh.

[Edify]

yeah actually my mom doesnt like it when im on the computer and it's annoying.

my mom doesn't like the computer either.

sometimes i use it too long and she threatens to toss it out the window. i have my startbar on auto-hide. she doesn't know how to use the computer at all.

[NaiLed]

grandma> sam, can you ring up the internet and tell them to order me a bread cutter

^ wtf?

[Subjugation]

disagree, technology will leave *most* of us behind. not all ofcourse but a fair share. even if they do have a technological life style.

ive only ever played this game, and only coz by brother and boyfriend got me in to it, oh and zelda


Link :wub:

I kind of agree with both Stab and Suz in the sense that technology will advance tremendously in our lifetime, but as long as we still retain our interest in technology when we get older, we won't turn into those tech-idiots that we're describing in this thread.

My pops is a total idiot when it comes to computers, but if he just set aside some time to learn about them, he would have no problem with it. His problem (and I'm guessing the problem with most people who are tech-idiots) is that in the 1980's and 1990's he only paid attention to stuff like his personal life and his career. He had no interest in keeping up with the advancement of technology. Now, he has to relearn every advancement in the last 20 years (which includes computer semantics) and I think he feels like he's learning to speak a foreign language and studying the history of an alien culture.

I think with most of us here in TW, we like computers and technology. It facinates many of us, so I have little doubt that with that kind of interest, we're going to be motivated to keep up with it over the next several decades.

Another thing, technology is a two-way street. It exists to make our lives easier, and as a capitalist vehicle. The designers want to create a product that is user friendly, because they stand to be more successful in selling more of them.

Basic technology will always have an interest in us, so as long as we maintain an interest in basic technology, I don't think it will pass us by.

[pv=nrt]

my mom thought she would stop my porn browsing by installing Norton anti virus. I give her credit though, it slowed me down for about an hour.

how did it slow you down?

[Squeezer]

how did it slow you down?

she installed the anti certain website thingy, and it took me like an hour to figure out her pw

also whoever said it above, rather than go into the URL box, my mom types hotmail.com into google, then clicks the link. Annoys the shit outta me.