IdioTech: Meet Me at Facebook [Click for more]

My mom opened up her web browser. I recently set the homepage to Google. She exclaimed “Oh, we have Google now!”
- Anonymous 

Whenever my stepmom gets an error in a dialog box on her computer, she just turns off the monitor and says, “I’ll wait for your dad to get home and look at this.”
- Anonymous 

My dad told me to meet him at Facebook. He meant Starbucks.
- Anonymous 

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IdioTech: Oh, Right, The Colon Bracket Thingy

My mum just asked me what the “colon bracket thingy” meant.
- Anonymous

My mom sends texts using the voicemail.
- Anonymous

My sister and I convinced my mother, as a joke, that the internet was turned off on public holidays. She believed this for about three months before we realized she hadn’t got the joke.
- Anonymous 

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IdioTech: Where Do I Put the Money?

Welcome to Idiotech, the column where we shame your parents, teachers, and other old people for being dumb about technology.

My grandmother asked me where she was supposed to “place the money” in her computer, And when I asked her why, she said it was to buy that sweater off the website I showed her.
- Anonymous

Everytime my dad uses the internet, no matter the browser he will use a search engine and type the website’s url in there instead of the navigation bar.
- starlight-shadow 

My mom asked how long I’d be 18 years old the day before my birthday. It took her several minutes to realize what she had asked me.
- whorephanages 

I once texted my dad a link to a website and he asked how he could access the site on the computer instead of his phone…
- noestoyhechodecarne 

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But Why Are the Birds Angry?

Today I was playing Angry Birds on my iPod Touch when my mom asked what I was doing. I responded, “Angry Birds.” She asked, shocked, “Why are our birds angry?”
- Anonymous

Since my dad still uses Internet Explorer (and a really old version, at that), I tried to tell him about different browsers. He refuses to use them, because he “won’t be able to access Google with another Internet.”
- Anonymous

The other day my Dad stepped on my retainer and broke it, I notified him there 300$ to replace, my mom suggested my sister and I could share hers…
- Anonymous 

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IdioTech: Jesus, People Still Use AOL?

My parents still pay for AOL. My mom doesn’t know how to open internet explorer so if she wants to view a website she first logs on to AOL. - Anonymous 

My mom wanted me to trim my beard so she kept on asking me to manscape. After the 5th time I told her that manscaping didn’t mean the face. - Anonymous 

For Christmas, my parents got me an iPhone that was a downgrade from the iPhone I already had… - Anonymous 

I often work with a mother about 10 years older than me. I noticed she always has a problem starting PowerPoint presentations so I suggested that she press F5. She took me outside and started freaking out at me because I had “ordered” her. - Anonymous 

I work with a woman who is a mother and about 10 years older than me. One day she took the overhead projector remote and started pressing random buttons. I asked her what she was doing and she would only tell me she saw me do it one time. Aparently she was trying to fix the sound. After telling her it had to be a software problem and her ignoring me I unmuted the video player. - Anonymous - Continue reading

I have a hunch the last two people are one and the same. 

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The Internet Is For Cat Videos, Right?

My Dad was editing a video for his work which he was going to upload to YouTube, upon overhearing this my nan gave a laugh and asked why we’d upload it to YouTube. Why was she so surprised? She thought the website was ONLY for cat videos… - Anonymous 

My mother in law is worried about us sending her videos or pictures of our new baby from our iPhones because it will “use up our minutes.” - Anonymous 

Whenever my aunt sees something on the internet, shes says “the man in the computer told me”. I still don’t know if she’s kidding or not. - Anonymous 

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Idiotech: Prank Calls, Skype, & the Death of Google Reader [Click for more]

One time when my grandmother was visiting, she thought that
youtube videos had to be bought from a retail store. - norwegiantrash

My mom called me because she’d heard Google Reader was being shut down, and was worried that meant she wouldn’t be able to read any of the blogs she’d bookmarked in “her favorites.” - Anonymous

So I was helping my mum put some stuff on her pendrive and in the end she said to me “did you put it on my dingle dongle?” I was really confused until I realised she meant her pen drive. - xblowpopsx

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Idiotech: Black Ops, Starbucks, and That Face-Thing Site

Welcome back to Idiotech, the column where we shame your parents, teachers, and other old people for being dumb about technology. If you think your parents are even stupider than this, submit your story at the bottom of this page.

My dad just tried to mute the TV with my cellphone.
-Anonymous

My grandpa asked me if they sold Folgers or Maxwell House coffee at Starbucks.
-Anonymous

My father went to the store to buy me something for Christmas and told them it was cheaper on the internet, and he wanted the same price as advertised online. They refused to give him the same price so he went home and called “the internet” to complain.
-Anonymous

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