Technology moves so quickly that it will eventually get ahead of us. Then we’re going to feel really bad for making fun of these folks for not keeping up with the times.
Then again, if we look at it as inevitable, we can just sit back and chuckle, ask a young person for help, and know we’re giving them great fodder for new memes and posts.
Do you think these 50 people are aware they’re Internet famous for their lack of tech-savvy?
At that point, you quietly give up.
So you need to give her points for trying.
Your words are all jumbled—or don’t seem to be words at all—since your lips and tongue don’t work correctly around all that food?
I really can’t come up with another explanation for this.
Copy and paste that? Sure. Write that out longhand? Not a chance.
Expect to start getting endless selfies.
Don’t believe it? Here’s the perfect example.
Thank goodness for old school tech like magnifying glasses that can make things a little more legible for you.
It’s better than watching the news!
But are they Australian? Do they live Down Under?
Seriously, how do you take a selfie when holding the phone upside down?
But hey, it has a screen. It has number buttons. It has all sorts of other confusing buttons.
Granny hasn’t quite caught on though.
She snaps a pic, somehow manages to get it printed and then snail mails it to you.
But she looks so proud of herself!
So he grabbed the blow dryer to help melt it.
We wonder how long THAT took.
To be fair, I think there are a lot of people that do this, although I’m not sure why.
Either way, lookin’ good, gran!
I’m going to guess mom has a good sense of humor.
He had an etch to scratch. pic.twitter.com/1DxiaeIN5P
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) November 6, 2014
If you’re old enough to have had a flip phone, you’ll know texting on them is nothing like what we have today.
So he writes a note, takes a pic and then sends an MMS message instead. Problem solved!
Mom was wondering why her computer was running so slow. I think having 11 toolbars open on your browser would do it.
When her grandchild came to the rescue, they saw this upside-down mouse.
That’ll do it.
Mom was trying to send a pic of Grandma’s diapers so a grandchild could pick them up.
But mom got frustrated because here phone wouldn’t send the pic, and she gave up.
Eventually, her child realized why. She made it her profile pic and doesn’t know.
The laughing emojis are clearly laughing, even if they have tears in their eyes.
Dad has been trying to master voice texts and seems to be having a bit of a problem.
This time in the Ring video doorbell.
He might be waiting a while.
At second glance you can see what the problem is. A call for help because she can find the spacebar on her keyboard.
And it would save everyone from having to explain things all the time.
Sure, it’s funny, but we think they’re on to something here.
This mom has been able to set her mom as her wallpaper image. Yay, mom!
This small cutting board looks a little odd, but it will do.
I hope those iPad covers can withstand the sharp blade of a knife!
Someone’s mom has managed to install something that adds ads to the lock screen.
Grandma clearly doesn’t spend a lot of time in stores like Best Buy. Her response is priceless.
Like when you bought grandma her first cordless phone and realize how she’s charging it.
An oldie but a goodie.
But instead of getting actual images printed, she’s getting screenshots of the image printed.
But how do you turn the darn things off?
Tell her to throw a few kisses in there next time too and she can avoid this problem!
Okay, so she’s got the phone backward, that’s clear. But I think she has it upside down as well.
She’d definitely be better off using earbuds.
Someone had to point out to their mom that what she had been using as a screen protector was the protective wrap that comes on new phones – you know, the stuff that you pull off and throw away.
Take this, for example.
Someone’s grandmother asked them to fix her phone because the time was always wrong.
Poor granny needed to have hers “grandma-ified” so she could use it. Personally, I think this is a marketable idea!
Someone told their dad they needed a new mouse, and dad pulled out this.
That thing just looks painful to use.
This is someone’s dad using the box as a case for his new phone since his new protective case hasn’t arrived.
I guess if you grew up somewhere where you needed to adjust an antenna to get better reception for your TV, this might make sense.
But it still wouldn’t work.
Imagine learning that your grandmother says please and thank you when doing a Google search.
How refreshing!
I hope someone stepped in to help the poor old guy out.
Maybe granny is finally getting around to setting up that computer you got her decades ago.
Now she’s asking you to help her “install the internet.”
Alas, she has yet to master the art of texting since she seems not to know that messages will already identify her.
She’s still signing her name to each one.
It appears that mom answers “no” to each of these questions.
But dang, that flash is bright and always ends up blinding me when I do this.
Camera must be broken.
Grandma here has a small TV. So she’s figured out a way around that so she can see.
If they’d rather speak in person, why not just come over to say hello?
We’re so confused.
Do you think she’s wondering why everyone does it all the time if they have to find a photocopier for it?
Don’t expect to have a conversation without it ever again.
But hey, it is fun.
We just hope she doesn’t decide to sing along to the radio.
Man’s mother likes to use the microphone function rather than typing to text while driving. from r/oldpeoplefacebook
50. We think he’s in a meeting
Ask him who else he’s texting with right now.
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