Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?

[Anonymous]

OP, what’s the update?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe I'm even joining this conversation, but my 80 year old mother is HOPELESS with technology. She can't open PDFs. She can't operate a gas pump credit card machine. She mails all her bills in by hand, and when she travels I have to do it for her.

Thankfully "turn it off and back on again" fixes her problems 80% of the time.

How is this possible? Computers have been commonplace for 40 years now.

The stereotypes here are ridiculous. My Mom is no longer living, but she would be 86 if she were still alive and she was an IT professional 40 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe I'm even joining this conversation, but my 80 year old mother is HOPELESS with technology. She can't open PDFs. She can't operate a gas pump credit card machine. She mails all her bills in by hand, and when she travels I have to do it for her.

Thankfully "turn it off and back on again" fixes her problems 80% of the time.

How is this possible? Computers have been commonplace for 40 years now.

The stereotypes here are ridiculous. My Mom is no longer living, but she would be 86 if she were still alive and she was an IT professional 40 years ago.

Right? My mom is 77 and spent her career in highly technical IT roles. The stereotypes are weird. I honestly think that a lot of younger people have no idea what the history of computing is, or that the system they’re using today was designed by some of those old people they dismiss as clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe I'm even joining this conversation, but my 80 year old mother is HOPELESS with technology. She can't open PDFs. She can't operate a gas pump credit card machine. She mails all her bills in by hand, and when she travels I have to do it for her.

Thankfully "turn it off and back on again" fixes her problems 80% of the time.

How is this possible? Computers have been commonplace for 40 years now.

The stereotypes here are ridiculous. My Mom is no longer living, but she would be 86 if she were still alive and she was an IT professional 40 years ago.

Right? My mom is 77 and spent her career in highly technical IT roles. The stereotypes are weird. I honestly think that a lot of younger people have no idea what the history of computing is, or that the system they’re using today was designed by some of those old people they dismiss as clueless.

Just because your moms knew computers doesn’t mean the rest of their generation does. My 73 year old MIL can barely text. I’ve never seen her on a computer. These aren’t stereotypes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe I'm even joining this conversation, but my 80 year old mother is HOPELESS with technology. She can't open PDFs. She can't operate a gas pump credit card machine. She mails all her bills in by hand, and when she travels I have to do it for her.

Thankfully "turn it off and back on again" fixes her problems 80% of the time.

How is this possible? Computers have been commonplace for 40 years now.

The stereotypes here are ridiculous. My Mom is no longer living, but she would be 86 if she were still alive and she was an IT professional 40 years ago.

Right? My mom is 77 and spent her career in highly technical IT roles. The stereotypes are weird. I honestly think that a lot of younger people have no idea what the history of computing is, or that the system they’re using today was designed by some of those old people they dismiss as clueless.

Just because your moms knew computers doesn’t mean the rest of their generation does. My 73 year old MIL can barely text. I’ve never seen her on a computer. These aren’t stereotypes.

Well yes, they are stereotypes. But as with all stereotypes, they will be true for some people and not true for other people. That’s how stereotypes work. Or don’t work, as it were.