Technology N00b Parents

It's hilarious how n00by elder people (50+) are at computer shit. All of them! I just had to explain my mom for 10 minutes how to download a .rar file off mediafire and how to access its contents. She complains at me a lot that I'm always "wasting her time" because shit's too hard when I share files yet I'm trying to make it as easy as possible. 

She's using Internet Explorer and couldn't figure out which the "real" download button was since mediafire displays ads around it that all say "Download" and such. To help her better I used IE too and clicked the real download button but it didn't actually work. In Chrome it automatically starts the download but in IE it's kinda non-functional but it worked for my mom at least. Fine. She won't install another browser now since she has an engineer who does all the installations for her. "It's too risky and I don't want to do that. I don't even know if I can install something." What the fuck, never needed to install something in all those years?

My dad is a master of computer science and also uses IE because "he only likes to run Microsoft software". His overall knowledge about computers is superb and even better than mine but he refuses to switch away from certain Microsoft programs. He doesn't check tech sites or reviews for the best software for certain tasks and doesn't believe that individuals or little companies can produce a worthy piece of software (for free) so he rather uses junk from Microsoft with no doubt xD.

Fucking n00bs, I'm a far superior user than them. They've got 30+ years of computer user experience versus my mere 7 ones or so. Still no challenge. That's fucking embarrassing. 

My mom always complains about ads on websites and on YouTube, so I told her to download AdBlock Plus and gave her the link. Her response was "Yeah, I'll do it some other time." Well, then stop fucking complaining about the God damn ads! How hard is it to take 10 seconds out of your life to click the link I sent you and click "Add to Chrome". Then she tells everyone that she knows "Andrew found out this cool thing that blocks ads on the Internet. God, I don't know where he finds this cool stuff from. He's so smart." Thanks for saying I'm smart, mom, but anyone can find out this shit with Google.

I even get random people in my life asking me how to download movies for free. I tell them "With a program called uTorrent and a Torrent site such as Kick Ass Torrents". They claim it's too hard. So, I guide them through it by explaining and then they tell me "How do you add the Torrents into uTorrent?" Ahh... You fucking double click them like any other file. -_- They claim it's too hard, so they ask me to email games to them. Yeah, sure I can upload a 3+ GB file onto the email server's attachments feature and send it to you to have it magically appear on your desktop. Retards! "It's too hard. I think I'll use Netflix instead."

My mom and dad are about as useful as a toaster when it comes to anything involving computers and technology. My dad was formerly in the army so i don't understand why he doesn't know much about technology. My mom's a nurse, and i guess apparently they don't us technology there xd. One time when i told them i'm gonna install a private vpn on our router, they refused saying that "someones gonna hack us" -_-

It's not just parents either, one of my homies said he got ludacris's album for free and i figured he torrented it but i was curious so i asked him. He told me he downloaded it from utorrent and said it was a program when he opened it. So i'm guessing it was a .exe file. That's so fucking stupid, why would you download a .exe file when your tryna download music. That's like letting a 1337 skid fuck with your shit.

shitnbitch@BWH wrote:Thanks for saying I'm smart, mom, but anyone can find out this shit with Google.

"Little Andrew-boy is so smart, he can use a complex website like Google to find awesome stuff, I'm so proud of him. "
Too hilarious! All parents are the same kind of n00bs. 

In the meanwhile I feel dumb when I fail hacking shit with Kali Linux  

mine got the basics down of a computer luckly   my main problem is, they have "iphones"  so now for me its "how do i send a pic?" and random crap like that

my parents yesterday asked me if i was using my aunts phone i said no then they found the phone and said did i use the phone i said no i have phone to myself and there were trying to turn up the volume they asked me to help them when they didnt know were the volume was i swear they are noobs

@Whats Weed

It took me a while to figure out how to turn on my Android phone that I got for Christmas a couple years ago. I had to actually use Google to figure out how to turn it on. xD I stick to using flip phones because they're simple to use and they're no bullshit unlike the smartphones.

@Shitnbitch

I was rong, about my mom any way, She dousent know how to use google. Early on to day, she googled something, and she needed to look up images, she dint know about the google "img" tab.

Modder~Kid MoDz wrote:Early on to day, she googled something, and she needed to look up images, she dint know about the google "img" tab.

I knew that back then when I didn't have Internet yet but used a computer at school during a lesson we spent at the computers room. It was like 6 or 7 years ago xD

shitnbitch@BWH wrote:It took me a while to figure out how to turn on my Android phone that I got for Christmas a couple years ago. I had to actually use Google to figure out how to turn it on. xD

I got one today (!) and made it with the first try (the button on the right).

Bully@WiiPlaza wrote:

Modder~Kid MoDz wrote:Early on to day, she googled something, and she needed to look up images, she dint know about the google "img" tab.

I knew that back then when I didn't have Internet yet but used a computer at school during a lesson we spent at the computers room. It was like 6 or 7 years ago xD

the funny thing is, she was the one who taught me how to use a computer at first when i was real yong.