Who's the Most Computer Illiterate Person You Know?
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12:25 My father, who worked in IT, once told me that 90% of people only know how to use 10% of Word/PowerPoint/etc, and the people who know how to use 20% of those programs are revered as gods.
My dad wrote tools for excel in the 90s that I guess became normal integrated parts. I should ask him if he has any horror stories from the nuclear field.
Because I've worked in IT some people don't even try to figure things out by using Google, they call me. It's maddening because it's usually the simplest thing. My father calls me daily; sometimes I have to leave home to go to him. I always tell him to read the screen and it will tell you what to do. He doesn't of course because I am his personal computer tech.
I am somewhat knowledgeable with PCs and it's so irritating when I have to do everything in the house or for everyone whenever they don't feel like learning to do things on their own
Some of the slightly out dated websites I use often require you to hit search, if you just press enter they don't search correctly
I work in a video game store. People will call us and ask for help on their phone/tablet/laptop because they don't want to pay for proper I.T. help (their own admission) and get pissy when we won't waste our unpaid time to help them solve a problem we can't even SEE. You break your own shit then either figure out how to fix it or PAY the properly TRAINED people to do it for you, don't waste a stranger's time because "you know all that techno stuff, so you should just help!"
Once overheard an old man in a computer shop insisting that he needed more ram The man in the shop managed to figure out that he was meaning hard drive space
One of my mom's friends.
One time not too long ago, she tried CALLING IN her AMAZON order, just like how it was done with ordering things out of catalogs.
Another time, she needed help with FB and I tried working with her over the phone. It would've been more productive if I was there in person (she lives in another state).
What annoys me is when someone has a fake profile using their pictures pop up on Facebook and then starts adding their friends and they say that they've been "hacked". No, you have not been hacked. Someone has taken information from your VERY PUBLIC Facebook profile and used it to create a fake page. This was possible to do because you have no privacy settings enabled for your profile. I have every one I can possibly have enabled on my profile, and this has never happened to me, not any time that has gotten back to me anyway.
It also amazes me the number of people who are legitimately hacked due to phishing scams who have no idea what 2FA is or that it would prevent most, if not all of these situations from happening.
Growing up every time my mom couldn't figure out how to do something or the computer was running slow she'd blame me because obviously it was my fault as a young teen. Granted, my mom used a PC at work. But we had a Mac. And for some odd reason she couldn't figure out that the program had to be closed and not just the window. So she'd have like 15 things running eating up all the ram and then yell at me for having a few games because she couldn't get her email to open.
7:51 Whenever I have to do anything on my spouse's phone or tablet, I feel the need to put on multiple layers of gloves just so I don't have to touch their crusty device.
Babe, I only ever hear the bathroom sink running for less than 5 seconds. Stop getting upset with me when I don't wanna touch anything you do.
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8:33 Hells yeah! DuckDuckGo ftw!!!!
From the 90’s or around the turn of the millennium:
Tech Support: “What’s your modem speed?”
Customer: “Medium.”
I couldn't make it past 10mins in this video. some of these truely makes me wanna flip my desk.
My rule of thumb for files is if it isn't backed up in at least three separate places, it isn't backed up. And even then, it *is* possible to lose something.
My PC died years ago, as well as my MacBook. I’m poor, disabled, and I haven’t been able to afford a new one. Though I *DO* know how to do everything that I need to do online on mobile iOS. However, if I were to get a new Mac or PC, I cannot say that I would know my way around, so to speak.
Hopefully not so computer illiterate they can't find the "any" key or have to get the computer's broken "cup holder" fixed!
I've seen 240 tabs open on a chrome book...
9:18 this one really irritates me, I never type that in. I just type the website.
Some of these people act all snobbish because their 60-something family members don't know how to use an internet browser. Honestly, I'm fine with that. Generational differences are normal. Give the youngsters a cassette player, a rotary phone or an old film projector. They probably wouldn't be able to figure it out immediately, though there is always of course the option to just google how those things work, and yes, that seems to fly over older people's heads all the time (the inability to use google to gain knowledge on certain things).
Yeah but when your 60 YO mom also teaches computer lessons at an LAUSD HS.... that is kinda embarrassing as an American.
Personal computers have been around for 40 years. 60 year olds have no excuse. They've had plenty of time to learn.
I’m not very computer savvy but the difference between me and a boomer is I know to look up the answer first
The old professors in my college would always ask me to help them fix the computer. They seem to think that because I’m a millennial, I must be a computer wizard.
Wow those are pretty shallow problems 😂
Heh .. I have the ultimate advantage regarding computers. As I was born in mid my parents both studying what is now called Informatics .. I literally sucked up my knowledge with my mothers breast milk. Is what I strongly believe. I always had an intuitive approach and rarely had to read manuals to get computers and related technology. But foremost - I'm open to that "stuff" while many of the older people have mental blocks or insist on doing things their old fashioned ways.
Btw I gave my mom a raspberry pi 4 for her internet surfing - she mostly checks the wheather online or visits some shop sites - to check on clothing - for actually buying things my mom insists on visiting their stores because she mistrusts clothing sizes and wants to check them on her body ^^. Advantage: that thing can run for months without any problems, doesnt generate astronomic electric bills and for her requirements its fully enough. Heck, I can even print over our network printer.
You can tell those are old by the fact they mention IE so much lol.
e.g?
@@oSamiSrzo Have you listened to/read the stories?
@@klocugh12 not really lol I just play them so I have noise to fall asleep to
My parents literally ask for help when they need to download a file or text a photo. 😓
People who just have like no awareness as to what's going on.
Okay now click the box right under your mouse
Where are you moving the mouse why are you moving it to the other side of the screen no don't click that box I was telling you to click the box your mouse was just hovering over. No not that box The one you were just over the one above it no not the one at the very top. Yes I see you somehow managed to open a weird error pop up no you don't need a click report Just click okay and close it and go back to the page we were on. Oh God and now you're on the website filling out a crash report and Oh great now you can't figure out how to close the website.
No that's not real that's an ad you do not have a virus. Yes I'm sure your web browser is not going to be scanning your computer for viruses. Yes I know what I'm talking about that's why you came to me for help
Starts internally screaming
Having to have these types of conversations with people is why I just don't offer tech advice to people anymore unless they demonstrated they at least get the general understanding of how to get around their device
my wife (77) refuses to learn.
Y-yo?
Yo!!!
the last one... "AOL online"? ummm
People have forgotten that “AOL” already stands for “America On-Line”, or ATM is “Automatic Teller Machine” - it happens all the time, and it happened already in the past (the sheriff is a shire-reeve, and the shepherd is a sheep-herd - just two examples from about 700 years ago).
@@Leofwine don't forget your pin number
😂 is that a AI generated Paint Drawing on the Thumbnail? At least I can't imagine a Human f***ing up a Eye that badly and that Comment comes from a absolutely horrible Artist🙃
What the hell is happening in that thumbnail??
Obviously a dino with his 3rd eye slightly outside its head is playing on a weird laptop.
Am I the only one that uses caps lock, I don't like holding shift
They said for a single letter.... are you using it for single letters? If so, it may get easier the more you type. I have hundreds of hours behind me so.
I've used the sticky keys setting for years. You press shift, then the key you wish to apply it to. Same with ctrl and alt.
I’m not tech savvy at all. And I’m not even 24.
There's a difference between "not tech savvy" and being totally illiterate. The fact that you found the RUclips comment section and figured out how to leave a comment tells me that you can at least use a computer.
@@michaelbujaki2462 I know some of the basics of using technology, but I’m in no position to give anyone tech advice.
@@michaelbujaki2462 I also mostly use an IPhone.
@@admiralinvertebrate5649being tech illiterate is the equivalent of not knowing how to breathe, if breathing was using a computer..
some of these honestly are not that bad, just a slightly slower way of getting the same results. complaining about them is just whining that someone does things another way, and you feel superior. so kinda A-hole complaints IMNSHO