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Originally Posted by J. Falcon
What bothers me is not that it's hard for certain people to understand how to use a computer. That is understandable, especially for older generations. That they make no real effort to try and learn on their own is what really frustrates me. It's like they need absolutely everything explained to them with great detail, over and over again.
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There is a lot of talk about "older generations" not being able to use computers, and I think this is incorrect.
My in-laws are great examples. Father in law is very old school, and spent the last fifteen years of his career as an artist drawing designs for t-shirts (ironically, side by side with people who did the same thing on computers). Mother in law worked worked for large medical groups running x-ray departments at dozens of hospitals and more or less always worked with computers. Dad can't figure out how to work his TV with multiple remotes, while mom manages multiple computers, laptops, tablets, and cell phones.
For myself, I grew up with computers. We had the old school top loading VCRs and the video cameras that required you to carry the recorder in one pack and another pack with the battery. I took computers in high school (which was mostly programming in basic to draw a picture of a house using six lines), and also had a computer at home (with a cassette player). After the military I remember taking courses on how to use Word and Excel; I found these to be really easy. When the home PC became common by the time of Windows 95 I was making web pages.