Why are parents so insecure with computers?

[ndee]

The instructions are clearly on the monitor but they still have to ask before every click.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

don't want to break something?

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
don't want to break something?

that's my guess.

 

[prvteye2003]

they didn't grow up in the computer age? they are afraid? My mom is like this. She is running on old celeron 400 with cable internet. Her computer can't keep up with her internet so it still slow as sh!t. She gets bored with it because it's so slow. I keep telling her that I can build her anothe one that would be much faster for under $300 but she just won't go for it. I think alot of parents are like this though.

 

[moonshinemadness]

my mum doesnt even bother trying

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
don't want to break something?

Or launch missles against some foreign country, ala War Games?

Nate

 

[Spamela]

my mom's almost 70, but is secure with what she knows, mainly sending email & games.

anything else, guess who she calls?

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: moonshinemadness
my mum doesnt even bother trying

haha, exactly. "When I want to print, can I just click here on the print icon?"

 

[geno]

people fear what they don't understand. The timidness comes with a lack of confidence. Man, the only way I learned anything when I was a kid was to BREAK SH!T! Then fix it

 

[Tret]

Same here they never touch a computer.

 

[illusion88]

MY grandmother doesnt like computers. She is old.

That is all.

 

[RossGr]

Jeez, what a gross generalization! My mom does pretty well, even if she is using dialup AOL. I manage to keep her system going, she is about to inherit a 6GB HD to upgrade her 3GB!

Oh, did I mention that she is 75? Oh, did I mention that I am 50+ , my sons are both college grads (one CE the other CS) They do take some pride in the fact that their ol' man is a computer literate as any teenager, more then most!

I have owned and operated a personal computer since 1980, and that is before many of you were born.

 

[Lager]

Because you don't control the computer, the computer controls YOU.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: RossGr
Jeez, what a gross generalization! My mom does pretty well, even if she is using dialup AOL. I manage to keep her system going, she is about to inherit a 6GB HD to upgrade her 3GB!

Oh, did I mention that she is 75? Oh, did I mention that I am 50+ , my sons are both college grads (one CE the other CS) They do take some pride in the fact that their ol' man is a computer literate as any teenager, more then most!

I have owned and operated a personal computer since 1980, and that is before many of you were born.

I know guys who have worked in the computer business since the mid 70s and I think they're still stuck there

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: RossGr
Jeez, what a gross generalization! My mom does pretty well, even if she is using dialup AOL. I manage to keep her system going, she is about to inherit a 6GB HD to upgrade her 3GB!

Oh, did I mention that she is 75? Oh, did I mention that I am 50+ , my sons are both college grads (one CE the other CS) They do take some pride in the fact that their ol' man is a computer literate as any teenager, more then most!

I have owned and operated a personal computer since 1980, and that is before many of you were born.

I know guys who have worked in the computer business since the mid 70s and I think they're still stuck there

yah, they're all really impressed by how small the vacuum tubes are in today's computers.

 

[RossGr]

Sorry, you do not know many who OWNED a PC in the mid '70s. Yes there were lots of people on MAINFRAMES then, I myself fed a few cards to one of those monsters. There is a big difference between those and a PC. I liked the immediate feedback from my little Apple II+. Which, BTW, my oldest son still has.

 

[Supermercado]

I think it's because they didn't grow up with them like a lot of us did. They didn't have Nintendos and Segas and Ataris and all that stuff. My parents are kind of the opposite. My mom is pretty adept at the internet and email (and she just completed making a website, as well) and my dad went back to school a few years ago and got an associate's degree in something computer-related (not sure exactly what) and works in the IT department at the Univ. of South Carolina.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: PipBoy

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: RossGr
Jeez, what a gross generalization! My mom does pretty well, even if she is using dialup AOL. I manage to keep her system going, she is about to inherit a 6GB HD to upgrade her 3GB!

Oh, did I mention that she is 75? Oh, did I mention that I am 50+ , my sons are both college grads (one CE the other CS) They do take some pride in the fact that their ol' man is a computer literate as any teenager, more then most!

I have owned and operated a personal computer since 1980, and that is before many of you were born.

I know guys who have worked in the computer business since the mid 70s and I think they're still stuck there

yah, they're all really impressed by how small the vacuum tubes are in today's computers.

Heh.. that reminds me that a couple of years ago I had an old Mac NuBus ethernet card that had something resembling a vacuum tube on it...

 

[PoPPeR]

my parents dont' know how to turn on the computer. They don't care and don't want to know.

 

[pphysicsguy]

They're unfamiliar with the devices and afraid to try new things out of fear of breaking it. They never learn because they never try new things.

This also makes it more difficult for them to carry out routine tasks, as they're scared that they'll get something wrong and the computer will explode.

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: PipBoy

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: RossGr
Jeez, what a gross generalization! My mom does pretty well, even if she is using dialup AOL. I manage to keep her system going, she is about to inherit a 6GB HD to upgrade her 3GB!

Oh, did I mention that she is 75? Oh, did I mention that I am 50+ , my sons are both college grads (one CE the other CS) They do take some pride in the fact that their ol' man is a computer literate as any teenager, more then most!

I have owned and operated a personal computer since 1980, and that is before many of you were born.

I know guys who have worked in the computer business since the mid 70s and I think they're still stuck there

yah, they're all really impressed by how small the vacuum tubes are in today's computers.

are you one of those who made it out of the 70's and still stuck in the 80's? we don't use vacuum tubes anymore in our modern computers.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: kt

Originally posted by: PipBoy

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: RossGr
Jeez, what a gross generalization! My mom does pretty well, even if she is using dialup AOL. I manage to keep her system going, she is about to inherit a 6GB HD to upgrade her 3GB!

Oh, did I mention that she is 75? Oh, did I mention that I am 50+ , my sons are both college grads (one CE the other CS) They do take some pride in the fact that their ol' man is a computer literate as any teenager, more then most!

I have owned and operated a personal computer since 1980, and that is before many of you were born.

I know guys who have worked in the computer business since the mid 70s and I think they're still stuck there

yah, they're all really impressed by how small the vacuum tubes are in today's computers.

are you one of those who made it out of the 70's and still stuck in the 80's? we don't use vacuum tubes anymore in our modern computers.

omg really? when did that happen?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: ndee

I know guys who have worked in the computer business since the mid 70s and I think they're still stuck there

Huh? You'd think they'd be long laid-off. I mean really, your senior employees tend to know somthing and therefore require more of your money. Then again, they also tend to shut the fvck up and do their job so they're easy to forget about when it comes time to ship the herd overseas.