Technology - love/hate relationship
Dang it! I'm trying to figure out how to attach a file to my blog. A word document, to be specific. I just sent a message to my nephew who always has all kinds of stuff attached to his blog. All I can find out for myself is going to a free site that will upload and embed it for me. I don't want my file floating around in virtual upload-land. Jakers-crakers. It's not fair that a generation is now growing up with all of this technology at their fingertips and I am struggling to learn it in my old age. Okay, relatively mid-old age. Just give me the easy to follow step-by-step instructions with clear, recognizable buttons to push. Don't make fun of me. Don't make it sound simple when it's not. Don't virtually turn away in computer savvy disgust. I love what computers can do for us. I hate that I cannot always figure out how to do what I want to do. Help me, Rhonda. Help, help me Rhonda. (If you are old enough to start singing this song, then you most likely did not grow up with a personal computer.) carry on.
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I hear you. I love computers but I hate too much tech stuff.
When my mother\'s family got their first electric refrigerator, there was a three-page manual describing how to change the light bulb.
I know it\'s confusing, but keep at it and you\'ll sort it out. I used to train people how to use their computers but I\'m finding it harder and harder to keep up so don\'t ask me.
It was interesting how some of my trainees over 40 had great difficulty and many were surely displaced from their jobs. However, a few over 80 soaked it up like a sponge. These were people who had run factories or insurance companies - math-heads.
I\'m not a math-head but I do ok. I sure stumble over the more technical stuff. They keep changing it all.
My nephew responded with something about e-mailing his brother (my other nephew) and he could copy it to a server and give me a link, and I just want it to be easy breezy lemon squeezy. I will figure it out. I just wish I could do it FASTER.
Half the time, okay more than half the time, I get something to work and don\'t know what I did to get it to work. Then, all of the sudden I\'ll find a file in a strange place and wonder how it got there. I just laugh at myself. What else can I do?