Top 10+ stories of technologically incompetent parents: 'My mother [uses] FB status as a search engine'

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

May 10, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

Trying to teach a technologically incompetent parent how to do something with their phone and/or computer can feel like a Sisyphean task.

Personally speaking, I would rather endure a day at the Department of Motor Vehicles. For me, the most upsetting part about watching my technologically incompetent family members try to do anything remotely tech-heavy is the way they behave when they can't get something to work. Everyone starts shouting at one another, or someone just starts pressing random buttons or tapping the screen excessively… as if that is going to do anything productive.

Here, we have parents who use their Facebook statuses as if it's a search engine tool. We've got a Mom who doesn't understand that a monitor does not store any data as well as one who thought buying a USB flash drive and a screen would amount to having a fully functional computer. I guess the only thing we can say to these ladies is Happy early Mother's Day and good luck.

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