Thursday, 30 April 2009

Net etiquette

I'm getting increasingly irritated by people who know even less about computers than I.

WHERE do I find that on here?

Sigh. If you click on the icon that says the exact thing you are looking for then you can find it there.

Oh yes. Thanks.

You're welcome IDIOT.

I know this ire is unfair. I also know how my brother feels when he has to talk to anyone but 12 year old nerds playing Halo about anything computer related. I never used to get this annoyed so I don't know why it's suddenly just started picking away at me. Maybe because the internet has been around FOREVER and people should just GET WITH THE PROGRAM ALREADY. I also figure, if I can do it, you can do it. There are a lot of things I cannot do; brain surgery, rocket science, mental arithmetic, telling the difference between my left and my right but the few things that I can do; using basic functions on the internet like Google for instance (see, what you do, is type the thing that you are looking for in the "search" "box" and then words appear in front of your eyes AND YOU READ THEM WITH YOUR EYES. Do you want me to make you a flow chart on this? JESUS) then you can too. I don't care who you are but I do know that if I can do it, you can do it. I know you might need someone to show you but what, where have you been the last gazillion years? We're not talking about learning how to program your robot butler when all you have to go on is instructions written in Swedish and you've been picked up in a time traveling phone box by two Californian stoners from the Elizabethan age, we're talking about typing words onto a screen. You know what words are don't you? You're heard of this mysterious force called 'words' right? All the cool kids down the youth centre have been talkin' 'bout this new thing called 'words' and you weren't sure what they were or who to ask about them because you didn't want to look totally uncool. Is that it? Did you just not want the cool kids to think you were uncool so couldn't ask anyone what 'words' were? That's it isn't it? Except, oh yeah, YOU USE A COMPUTER EVERYDAY IN YOUR JOB HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS SHIT ALREADY? I'm jus' sayin' is all.

But then I see things like this and I realise what people from a certain demographic have been dealing with in internets teachings and I feel bad.



I've got a real yearning for some Movies4Men soft porn action after that.

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