Anonymous
Post 09/16/2022 15:07     Subject: Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
bump
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 17:16     Subject: Re:Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
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.




To add onto what others have stated, for much of that time, computer literacy has also been correlated with socioeconomic factors. Not all jobs need computers, and there's less incentive to learn and invest in a computer when those around you do not use them either. Not sure what the deal is with pp's mom specifically, but she's certainly not the only one.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 14:47     Subject: Re:Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
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.


Well I’m 40, and our family got our first computer when I was 8 and it was a novelty in our neighborhood. So, not really.

30 years, yes.


Same. I'm 46 and we were the only people in our neighborhood with a computer for years. When my dad got a new one, we sold our Apple IIE to a neighbor so there were two people in the neighborhood with a computer.


This! The entire neighborhood used to come over to play Oregon Trail at my house in the guest room/computer room. There was enough time to make and eat snacks downstairs while the computer warmed up. My kids don’t believe it when I describe 8 of us gathering around one computer for fun, never mind dust covers, floppy disks or the black-and-white display on Macs.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 10:23     Subject: Re:Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
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.


Well I’m 40, and our family got our first computer when I was 8 and it was a novelty in our neighborhood. So, not really.

30 years, yes.


Same. I'm 46 and we were the only people in our neighborhood with a computer for years. When my dad got a new one, we sold our Apple IIE to a neighbor so there were two people in the neighborhood with a computer.
we also had a computer in the 80s. It was a commodore Vic 20 with a tape deck. The whole thing was pretty useless until the internet became commonplace. I have no idea what my stepdad used the computer for, he was very much a blue collar Union worker.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 09:17     Subject: Re:Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
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.


Well I’m 40, and our family got our first computer when I was 8 and it was a novelty in our neighborhood. So, not really.

30 years, yes.


Same. I'm 46 and we were the only people in our neighborhood with a computer for years. When my dad got a new one, we sold our Apple IIE to a neighbor so there were two people in the neighborhood with a computer.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 09:09     Subject: Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
Would love an update.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2022 13:38     Subject: Re:Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
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.


Well I’m 40, and our family got our first computer when I was 8 and it was a novelty in our neighborhood. So, not really.

30 years, yes.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2022 13:14     Subject: Re:Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2022 13:13     Subject: Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
Anonymous wrote:This is fascinating. But I do have to point out that grandmas are not well known for their tech savy.



It's 2022. Grandmas grew up with the internet and computers.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2022 17:14     Subject: Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
Anonymous wrote:Op, where are youuuuuuu????
We neeed an update, even if you don’t know anything additional.


+1 !!!!
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2022 16:53     Subject: Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
Alexa is selling your....to you MIL.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2022 16:52     Subject: Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
Op, where are youuuuuuu????
We neeed an update, even if you don’t know anything additional.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2022 16:49     Subject: Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
Anonymous wrote:My mother (77) lives with us and she LOVES the ring cameras, and the Find My app. She knows where everyone is (my family and my sister’s) and everything going on in our neighborhood. She loves to tell me all about it. She would bug somebody in a heartbeat if she knew how.


This sounds like part of a good preteen mystery show. Like the kids will recruit granny to help with the case.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2022 16:46     Subject: Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
Anonymous wrote:I would say something provocative that you don't search or look at.

And then I would search or look at something else provocative.

Like: did you know my friend Larla (made up name) is going to transition to being a man?

Or, I would really like a xxx and search for it and see if she comes up with one. Like, I don't know, something you or DD would never want previously. Like, now I want to collect owls!


Okay wait, this is even more genius
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2022 16:44     Subject: Is my MIL highly intuitive or listening in somehow?
Anonymous wrote:Say something she can't resist responding to.

Like - I think we should run to Mexico. We can't tell dad.


Genius, do this.