There is a group of people, including family members ....
They are somewhat computer literate. I've been asking these people to try instant messaging for years now. Situations keep coming up where it would be obviously useful.
And still they don't bother. They come up with harebrain ideas such as "everyone in the family call this one person that lives on the other side of the country in an emergency". They're so stuck in the mid-20th century, it's painful to watch. They have to be spoon-fed anything more complex than a push-button phone. It just doesn't click with them that there is another form of communication available, and that it's FREE.
I don't get it. How fucking hard is it to fill in a web form and run IM within a browser?! How much simpler can you make it?
I hate their mentality. It's a sort of "learn barely enough to get by" attitude. Idiots.
I have tried my best. I have been nice about it. They can stay technically illiterate for all I care. I simply won't talk to them about anything tech anymore.
Posted by anonymous at September 17, 2003 11:21 AM | TrackBack