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> My grandma knows she doesn't know anything. She won't do anything she's unsure of, won't click any link or button without getting my advice first This is a b
by dkersten 8y ago
> My grandma knows she doesn't know anything. She won't do anything she's unsure of, won't click any link or button without getting my advice first
This is a blessing and a curse. A blessing for the reasons you mention, but a curse because people like that won't figure things out for themselves, since they're afraid to click on things. But if her asking for advice isn't a burden (and it shouldn't be unless it happens all the time), then this is definitely preferable to the people who screw things up and then you have to clean up after them :)
> Their devices are the digital equivalent to Typhoid Mary.
Someone asked me for some help with something once and I needed to use the browser, Internet Explorer of course. I'm not at all joking or exaggerating when I say that half of the vertical screen space was taken up with toolbars. How someone can have half the screen taken up and not realise something is wrong, I will never know, especially since it wasn't always like that.
- PaulHoule 8y agoIf you browse the web on a mobile device it seems "normal" for web pages to devote 1/3 of the space to telling you to switch to a mobile app which you know is worse than the web site, or to a mobile web site which either looks exactly the same or looks worse on a mobile device. Also there are the cookie popups, the GDPR popups, the advertising popups, the popups to pop up the pop ups, etc. So it is a clear "normalization of deviance" situation.
- dkersten 8y agoThis wasn't on a mobile device and it was some years ago before mobile web was quite as prevalent. I take your point though, I guess nowadays it may not seem so odd. I also learned that people seem to put up with these things (instead of just closing them). I was watching someone play a game on youtube, where every time they picked up an item it would show a popup at the bottom of the screen showing what it was. You had to press a button on they gamepad to close the popup and the person playing rarely did, causing them to stack up taking up a lot of the screen. My OCD would have made me close them immediately, but clearly some people seem to barely even see them. I guess its similar with toolbars/cookie popups...
- PaulHoule 8y agoI remember the toolbars being a big problem in the early 0's. It seemed like everybody and his brother wanted (and could) install a toolbar on IE. Some of them were actually cool, but when there are 100 people who want you to install a toolbar for every 1 that wants to install a toolbar that is way too many toolbars. Today we have Chrome, which is 100% a toolbar.