I once had to help the company accountant with a tech thing. She had written sticky notes to hit start, find Excel, go to file, go to open file, click payroll, click open file… Etc
She’d been doing that with the same software for 10 years, when I told her she could just click on the the file she freaked out and said I was going to confuse her
It took me a but to realize a detail you might’ve missed… She’d been there for 10 years, and the sticky notes were still sticky. I can’t imagine how many times she rewrote them
That’s what made me understand, some people are genuinely not good with computers. I always thought I was “good with computers” because I was brave enough to explore the menus and Google what I didn’t understand
Some people are genuinely incapable of understanding software, on a very fundamental level
Look at the modern internet and how it is shaping societies. Billions of people are actively contributing to that dumpster fire every day. I think it’s pretty safe to say that the vast majority of people is not good with computers.
My grandma at 78 years old is perfectly capable of using her smartphone and laptop to look up prices at local supermarkets and the newest episodes of her TV shows via voice search (she can’t type very well because of arthritis). It’s never too late to learn.
Notice that these are remotes for a TV and stuff, not computers. This should give you some insight into how people might remain not good at something ubiquitous!
Whenever I hear “I’m not good with computers,” I think “WTF have you been doing for the last quarter-century?”
I once had to help the company accountant with a tech thing. She had written sticky notes to hit start, find Excel, go to file, go to open file, click payroll, click open file… Etc
She’d been doing that with the same software for 10 years, when I told her she could just click on the the file she freaked out and said I was going to confuse her
It took me a but to realize a detail you might’ve missed… She’d been there for 10 years, and the sticky notes were still sticky. I can’t imagine how many times she rewrote them
That’s what made me understand, some people are genuinely not good with computers. I always thought I was “good with computers” because I was brave enough to explore the menus and Google what I didn’t understand
Some people are genuinely incapable of understanding software, on a very fundamental level
“I’m not good with computers” is a weird way of saying “I stopped living in the present time 25 years ago”.
Look at the modern internet and how it is shaping societies. Billions of people are actively contributing to that dumpster fire every day. I think it’s pretty safe to say that the vast majority of people is not good with computers.
My grandma at 78 years old is perfectly capable of using her smartphone and laptop to look up prices at local supermarkets and the newest episodes of her TV shows via voice search (she can’t type very well because of arthritis). It’s never too late to learn.
Notice that these are remotes for a TV and stuff, not computers. This should give you some insight into how people might remain not good at something ubiquitous!