What's the most computer illiterate thing you've seen?

[scottish]

I'm sure everyone's seen someone interacting with a computer and you've just severely judged them for some stupid shit.

Maybe more so for us that work in IT, but even those who don't I'm sure you've seen older people do something silly.

[Chris]

Not sure really. Umm my dad can't grasp the difference between a browser and a search engine but other than that he's pretty good.

[Meanies]

The first thing that comes to my mind was my boss last week. All of our card machines went down (because I knocked a plug out but didn't tell no one and pretended I knew nothing) but he sent an email to the people who deal with our tills and stuff. An hour or so later they came back into action and he tried to send them another email saying it was ok and all fine, but he had gone into the sent box and replied to the email he originally sent them, but it just came back into our inbox and he just couldn't grasp what he had done wrong even though i'd told him exactly what he did wrong

[FlyingJesus]

@Plebings;

[xxMATTGxx]

People who don't understand you need a working internet connection for your emails to work.

[Lucy]

People who don't understand that Google is a search engine and not just a browser.

[Futz]

one of my favourite memories is when my nan and grandad first got a computer, many years ago. They set it all up and he kept trying to search fish on the browser but nothing was coming up, we asked if they had internet and he didnt know what it was

MISS U GPA

[lawrawrrr]

The thing that annoys me the most is when people just call things the wrong thing, like "my email isnt working", no your INTERNET isn't working, or "the website's gone down" no you're connecting to the wrong site??

the worst computer illiterate thing is definitely the difference between search engines and browsers though. Google Chrome "doesn't work" on my Grandma's computer apparently because she's got to use the "Internet Explorer" with her wifi plan apparently...

[peteyt]

I remember trying to tell my grandad multiple times that catch up on set top boxes wouldn't work without an internet connection. And someone else I knew thought that if you started a download on your computer, you could continue downloading it on the computer even when the computer was turned off.

A lot of people think a browser is actually the internet, that mac's can't get viruses and that an antivirus will protect you from everything no matter what.

Also a small pet hate of mine is website hosting companies that advertise packages with unlimited disk space. It's more of a marketing gimmick than anything else. They can keep adding space, but there will always be a limit.

[RyRy]

Somebody getting frustrated that their computer wasn't working and that they had a black screen, so I told them to switch it on as they said it had an orange light on it.

They were switching off and on their monitor (lol) , it didn't occur to them the "big box next to the computer" was the computer... This was over the phone, so once I hung up I pretty much pissed myself.