How Much Longer before we stop giving Old People a pass for being Computer Illiterate?

[UserNameless]

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiddddd there's a bunch of young people who are computer illiterate I'm talking bout 50 on down

humongous facts .

Another opportunity to make money

And these people on here wonder why they broke

 

[Hoshi_Toshi]

Nah the worst is the folks that see our marketing dept using MacBooks and ask if they can get one to open excel sheets and set up meetings for their boss.

the answer is hell no. Steep ass learning curve for a 60 year old admin assistant that’s been using windows 7 for the last 10 years. Plus I’ve wasted too much of my life troubleshooting issues with Microsoft products on macs

 

[ISO]

A lot of young people don’t know how to do shyt past accessing social media

 

[Meowth tote da Uzi]

Old people can't order from touch screens. As soon as they see a touch screen they spazz out and immediately go I dont know how to do this/dont want to do this. Which is cool with me however old ppl hypocrites for that type of behaviour.

 

[aXiom]

I can give older people a pass for now.. I think the bigger issue is having these same best before 1985, lifealert needing motherfukkers in congress pushing laws policing the same technology they hate because they don't understand it.. fukk all the way outta here

 

[Legal]

Man I'm 43, I know what lay-a-way is.

I'm saying you're taking your own personal experiences and making it seem like they were common for everyone.

Built a computer in 1993.

Was on the 'net in the military in 1988.

These are not common activities, at all, back then.

Like ol boy above pointed out only 35% of America owned a PC in 1997.

In 1990? 15%

So saying you built a PC in 1993....you were in the extreme minority.

No it isn't "no one" like people are saying but it damn sure wasn't common.

Fred.

Pure facts. I vividly remember my family getting a PC in '97. The shyt cost $2000. In '97 money. If we're being completely honest, back in the 90s, that was a LOT of money for a lot of households to spend.

People conflate PC usage becoming a mainstream cultural moment with the marketing blitz behind Windows 95 with PCs being an attainable purchase for the average family. There's a reason Gateway and Dell were still cooking heavy into the early 2000s. They made buying a PC cheaper and more accessible than some of their competitors.

Old people can't order from touch screens. As soon as they see a touch screen they spazz out and immediately go I dont know how to do this/dont want to do this. Which is cool with me however old ppl hypocrites for that type of behaviour.

That annoys me the most. Old folks will shut down at the immediate sight of a touch screen, or god forbid, something asking for a password, but will turn around and call everyone older than them idiots and pussies for not knowing something that modern technology and conveniences have either replaced or made easier. Can't expect people to learn from you if you're gonna be a dikk about having the knowledge in the first place, and if you're not going to exchange info by being willing to learn.

 

[Koli_Kat]

I'd say now is the time to learn since covid has us doing everything online.

No reason anyone below retirement age should be staring at a computer like it's a fukking time machine

 

[hex]

Pure facts. I vividly remember my family getting a PC in '97. The shyt cost $2000. In '97 money. If we're being completely honest, back in the 90s, that was a LOT of money for a lot of households to spend.

People conflate PC usage becoming a mainstream cultural moment with the marketing blitz behind Windows 95 with PCs being an attainable purchase for the average family. There's a reason Gateway and Dell were still cooking heavy into the early 2000s. They made buying a PC cheaper and more accessible than some of their competitors.

Only one person I knew had a computer around 1998. It was my homeboy's mom, who was a law clerk or some shyt.

I was on the internet in '99 solely because the Sega Dreamcast had that web browser. Which is when I joined SOHH.

It's funny you mention Gateway as I was the first person out of my clique with a computer, which was a Gateway. That was like 2001 or so.

Fred.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Just teach them..there was a time where someone had to teach you...

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[Deflatedhoopdreams]

This I gotta agree on, some of my students can't do basic shyt like attach a file to emails, like wtf u on them devices all day for

Pathetic

 

[Crayola Coyote]

This. They buy smartphones just for you to do all the simple shyt for them. Then they come back to ask you how to do xyz you just show them how to do. If you don’t do it they guilt trip you. Nah pack it up

 

[Crayola Coyote]

yall laughing now, but watch when social media becomes standard in business and tvs require vpn setups and social media profiles to setup, and various menus to do the same shyt you were doing a decade before.

your time is coming, believe that.

we get with the times. Them they chose to not learn how to use technology

 

[inndaskKy]

Call people out for being computer illiterate but have a FB account brehs...

 

[Pseudonym]

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiddddd there's a bunch of young people who are computer illiterate I'm talking bout 50 on down

that's me I stopped caring about the new shyt when I hit 25...hubs is in IT so he pretty much does everything for me,

"internet is down boo!"
"My CPU ain't working boo!"
"What's wrong with my phone boo!?"
"what's wrong with the TV boo?"

 

[Crayola Coyote]

I'll get on my rant on how if its not the latest app to communicate to your friends (ie modern age telephone), there's a lot of people, young and old, who are computer illiterate.

But I do have concerns about everything being automated. I have to take care of a lot of my mom's bills and such, because talking to a human is non-existent. And even I get tripped up trying to set and remember passwords, that each need to be changed every 12 minutes . I have to do this when I'm 65?

damn... you got a point