isnt it frustrating living with a computer illiterate family?

Isnt it frustrating living with a computer illiterate family? They always ask me to do something on the computer for them and never learn to do it themselves. They still dont know how to email after we got the internet like 10 years ago. Im sort of burned out on them asking me to do everything. Even if they offered me $100 to do something I have a hard time doing it for them. My cousins ex asked me to put his car on craigslist and he'll give me $100 bucks if it sells. I guess I'll do it if im in the mood. Plus I had to drive 10 miles just to tell my cousin that her blu-ray player doesnt have netflix.

My mom couldn't use a computer to save her life. :?

I enjoy it actually. I help my mom copy and paste something on facebook and she calls me a genious :P A boost for my ego is always nice.

No. The day my mum learnt how to show hidden folders was the day a little part of me died.jimmyjammer69

[QUOTE="jimmyjammer69"]No. The day my mum learnt how to show hidden folders was the day a little part of me died.Shadowhawk000

Or put a password on the file? :P

[QUOTE="jimmyjammer69"]No. The day my mum learnt how to show hidden folders was the day a little part of me died.Shadowhawk000

LOL can't train old dogs new tricks, I just said the other day.. Two old(75 yrold) couple nextdoor reading newspaper every norning. I said it's better get yourself a computer they can read news on the internet anytime they want. but they said no they don't know how to use computer. you can learn I said.. oh well, I should have known asking them that anyway.

I only find it annoying when it's something I know that they know how to do because they have done it many times in the past.

edit it's really only my dad though. My Mom knows most things and very very rarely needs my help and it's usually pretty advanced stuff which I actually find fun since I don't get the shot to try that stuff under most normal circumstances.

I don't live with anyone computer illiterate. Every once in a while my sister will email me about a problem she is having with her computer, but it isn't really annoying because she usually trys to fix it herself first (usually resulting in more harm than good, but hey, at least she tried :P). And she is my sister and we live thousands of miles away from each other, so I don't really mind.

But I did the mistake of fixing my neighbors computer once, and now every single time she has a computer "problem" she asks me to help (which happens way too often), and I'm kind of incapable of saying no. It does kind of annoy me that she doesn't even try to find the answer herself. Most of the time, if it isn't something simple, I just search google for the solution anyway.

How ironic, my mom is asking me to go and help her send an email at this very moment /eye roll.

To answer your question its incredibly frustrating. I can deal with helping someone but when they fail to learn anything each and everytime and instead just rely on me to do it for them... thats what bugs me

How ironic, my mom is asking me to go and help her send an email at this very moment /eye roll.

To answer your question its incredibly frustrating. I can deal with helping someone but when they fail to learn anything each and everytime and instead just rely on me to do it for them... thats what bugs me

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Yeah its a bit annoying, But my mum hasn't gotten better at it. My dad though has never even touched a pc before...

It annoys me that they're unwilling to try. I only learn by fiddling around...SolidSnake35

Not really. My mother was a old school computer science major from the 80's and 90's. CreasianDevaili

thank god my dad is a programer and has built computers. the rest of my family thou r hopless and always need help.

i would not know, my family is quite literate when it comes to computers, i finding it much more "frustrating" living with the illiterate society, but i guess the dumber they are the easier things are for me.... lack of competition and what not.

I've been the "computer guy" for family and kin since the mid-80's. So, not really. You get used to it. Some of them also know more than what they show. They just like me doing stuff for them.

oh god yes i hate it

I get spam from my grandma.

it's annoying that because i design computers for a living that makes me a tech support person... they'll be like "but you do this for a living" *facepalm*

Not so much my family, but more people in my office (since I'm the office technical help). They come to me at work with their home computer problems. One lady kept having BSODs on her home PC, and it took a few minutes of questions to find out that she was using a light switch to turn off the power to the PC every time.Engrish_Major

oh wow, that is an ID10T error if I've ever heard one!! I am also tech support, what surprises me more is what people do on their computers at work...some stuff is common sense not right...

my fam does bully me about computer stuff, but they're older, so what can you do?

my dad is pretty hip the jive of all that computer stuff. My mom, on the other hand, knows how to check her email, play a couple of games, and surf the web. I love getting the emails and phone calls asking what happened to her computer...like I can see it from a different city. :lol:

It is also annoying when your Dad is a computer programmer and he can easily find you internet history :|

my dad is pretty hip the jive of all that computer stuff. My mom, on the other hand, knows how to check her email, play a couple of games, and surf the web. I love getting the emails and phone calls asking what happened to her computer...like I can see it from a different city. :lol:

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