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50 Old People Who Haven’t Got The Hang Of The Internet Blessed Us With Unintentional Comedy Gold
Technology changes at such a breakneck speed, that it can be hard to remember just how “slow” things used to be. Just fifteen years ago, the idea of everyone having a touchscreen phone was something out of Star Trek. The result is that some folks end up a little left behind, even if they don’t know it yet.
So we’ve gathered some amusing, chaotic and downright hilarious “old people online” moments from across the internet. If you’re a senior who is perfectly adept at using the ‘net, please take this in good humor, and perhaps leave a comment for others to know. Be sure to get comfortable as you scroll through and upvote the best ones.
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Upstaged75 2 months ago
Poor Kimberly just got publicly outed. Or maybe everyone except Mom knew?
Judes 2 months ago
I think the latter. It doesn't sound like Kimberly is being secretive. :)
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Michael Largey 2 months ago
I knew two woman who became roommates in college and stayed that way for years. I can attest that at least one of them was definitely not a lesbian.
KatSaidWhat 2 months ago
My sweetly naive boss thinking two old biddies were friends and lived together because their husbands had passed. Until I pointed out it's a one bed flat (amazing what you can find on the internet)
Rich Black 2 months ago
people should be allowed to keep their private lives private. stop the hate.
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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 months ago
Its a typical marriage bad joke, dunno whats funny about it tho. I'm hoping i get the privilege to have a long term relationship/marriage one day. If you don't like your partners please just leave. Idc if you have kids, 2 happy households are better than 1 miserable 1.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
Ejaculating vs Evacuating... he doesn't know if he's coming or going!
Tom Brincefield 2 months ago
No, it's just to keep you occupied while the storm tries to k**l you.
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Jude Corrigan 2 months ago
The weather has then so mixed up, they don't know whether they are coming or going.
Describing older people using technology and the internet has a tendency to become inadvertently comical, and comedy arises through both generational contrast, timing, and the quirkiness of online culture in itself. It's not ridicule that makes it compelling but the way it highlights the contrast between a life spent according to pre-digital norms and the fast, sometimes dizzying, pace of the digital realm.
One of the primary ways that these moments are funny is in the contrast between expectation and outcome. Later generations that are raised on the internet will breezily work their way through apps, gadgets, and social media with little thought. Watching an individual who approaches the same tools with an entirely different kind of thinking exposes little pockets of misconception that can have enormous, funny results.
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Karen Menard 2 months ago
be gone falsehood believers. This plant can get very tall and leave itself all over. In NE this is called a bush with white things on it...
BeesEelsAndPups 2 months ago
Sweets Pirate Roberts, since it's a Virginia sweetspire (I think, hard to tell)
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KatWitch57 2 months ago
40 something years ago I was teaching people to use computers, then some idiot invented microsoft .....
Still Going 2 months ago
So sweet! My Grammy's been gone for 36 years now, and I still miss her.
An elderly person could employ the use of a search bar in a way that is unnatural, just like one would talk or employ offline thinking on an online platform. The result is always unforeseen, and surprise is also part of the necessary components of humor. That being said, research suggests that in many places in the world, the majority of older folks do regularly use the internet.
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Marsha Hultberg 2 months ago
Norma... ☺️ That's a name I haven't heard since the '60s!
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chickpea me 2 months ago
Meanwhile we’re all dying to know who it was...and to see a photo of your son.
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We ride at dawn biatches 2 months ago (edited)
My friend did this to me. He named the group something like 'lonely loser' lol
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BeesEelsAndPups 2 months ago
I'm an arsenal fan, but given the opportunity, is sign up with Liverpool in a heartbeat. I know how much those guys make
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The internet is all about speed, even though it’s been around over forty years. Jokes, memes, and slang are born and die within days. To someone who doesn't know this rhythm, joining in on the conversation is like walking into a party halfway through. They will occasionally use an antiquated turn of phrase, respond way after the close of a thread, or misuse a meme format. To younger audiences, these errors feel cartoonish, but they also feel quaint because they show someone actually trying to be a part of something that wasn't built with them in mind. The humor is less a question of incompetence and more a question of clash of tempos: one charging along and the other dragging along at their own speed.
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Bananaramamama 2 months ago
It's a reality show in the UK. Essentially the premise is the groom picks the dress and makes all the arrangements without any input from the bride. Usually in each episode it involves a lot of the bride being unhappy with the outcome. The post is implying it's all staged.
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Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
"Recite for me the First Law of Comedy?" " Puzzled people don't laugh."
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Talis 2 months ago
When I stand on it, it's my lawn. So it doesn't matter that it's next to your house - get off my lawn!
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Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
Reminds me of the American in London yelling his Miranda rights were violated...
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Tyranamar Seuss 2 months ago
This would be the day grandson had to start looking for places to live.
Cultural references enter into it as well. People who lived the majority of their lives before the internet became a part of daily life have different reference points and touchstones. When they encounter online trends, they translate them in terms of the music, TV, or events of their formative years. This can result in laughable confusions between new and old contexts. For example, someone might decipher a web abbreviation from knowledge in a completely different field of study or view a viral clip in terms of a commercial from decades ago. These are the moments that reveal how technology is not so neutral but imbued with human memories and routines that it gets through them. The humor is due to the clash of two worlds: digital shorthand and analog experience.
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Upstaged75 2 months ago
🤣🤣 I had to teach that to my mom. Thankfully she wasn't searching anything weird, she just didn't understand.
chickpea me 2 months ago
When I tried to explain, to my Nan, what computers were capable of. I told her to ask it a question and it would be able to give the right answer. So Nan asked: Whatever happened to Sonja, that lovely girl, who brought you back from wondering off in the park when you were little. She only gave her first name. Is she married now? Good one Nan.
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Terry Filkohazi 2 months ago
Why not just go to Walmart website to find out instead of Google?? smh
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There is a physical element to the humor as well. Technology these days is constructed on assumptions of how humans use screens, buttons, and menus. A tap that was too long, a simulated swipe, or an accidental camera angle can yield results no one ever intended. Pieces of footage showing people holding a phone upside down while making a video call or punching single keys at a slow pace with one hand demonstrate how design choices affect real people in ways other than intended. It is entertaining not because of failure but rather because of how such small things break open the underlying learning curve that is involved with tools so many take for granted.
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DC 2 months ago (edited)
The Answer, my Friend - a BIowjob in the Wind ... the answer's a BIowjob in the Wind!
Load More Replies... ZombieMommy 1 month ago
I was milliseconds from taking a drink, thankfully i finished reading this before i spit dr pepper all over my desk and computer
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Clown fish 2 months ago
This isn't someone trying to use Google. Drüg dealers use address and then deal from cars near the address.
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Angela C 2 months ago (edited)
Back when i was in middle school (11-14 years old for any non-Americans, circa 2005) the rumor was going around that taurine was in fact actual bull semèn
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Kelly H. Wilder 2 months ago
Grandma knows all about it. Otherwise there'd be no granddaughter.
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
Seriously, people in their eighties now were young adults in the ‘60s
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago
I remember when sêx was an athletic adventure, too. Now it's just an adventure....
At its essence, all of these situations are amusing because they are revealing weaknesses. Technology has a sheen to it about being infallible, obvious, and streamlined. Having someone go at it without that assumption being in place strips away the glaze. It reminds everyone that beneath the flashy marketing and fluid interfaces, technology still must be translated into. That translation depends on age and experience, and the authenticity of those differences creates humor.
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Bill Richman 2 months ago
So either the basement is flooding or she needs to take a shower. Either way, she's quite happy to tell people about it.
Jenny 2 months ago
Or she lives in a block of flats and her downstairs neighbour has died 😬 -- I watch too many true crime programmes.
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Socrates 2 months ago
Let me be the first to ask why autocorrect would correct it to that..? Seeing as it corrects to commonly used words that you use…
ZombieMommy 1 month ago
mine is random words. it autocorrected "spelled" to "shirked" this morning. I have never typed that word to anyone lol
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Multa Nocte 2 months ago
🎶 We must blame them and cause a fuss. Before somebody thinks of blaming us! 🎶
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Science Nerd 2 months ago
I didn’t think Canada was talking to us anymore, not that I blame them.
Gingersnap In Iowa 2 months ago
Canada called me last week... well it was my cousin Sonja who lives in Canada.
Rosecrucian Roeth 2 months ago
Dam strait we r n this is only the beginning.............beware meta...........be vewy afraid!
This type of content also offers a mirror for younger audiences. It is easy to forget that the digital landscape is constantly changing. What feels natural today may be confusing tomorrow. Observing an older generation struggling with technology reminds one that nobody is too immune from ending up out of sync with the new platforms at some time. The humor is thus qualified by acknowledgment, a glimpse of how each of them may eventually look to future generations.
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Saphyre Fyre 2 months ago
I frigging HATE those preset messages! NOT ONCE has someone who has used "hi; is this available?" EVER followed through!
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Bill Richman 2 months ago
This is right up there with the people who answer questions about businesses on Google Maps with, "I don't know - I've never been there." 🤦♂️
ZombieMommy 1 month ago
They probably get alerts for reviews. I get alerts to review places I have never been just because I drove passed them. Instead of ignoring it she just decided to be helpful lol
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BeesEelsAndPups 2 months ago
One is a computer virus and one is a terrible cup of coffee. If rather get the McCafe though.
Load More Replies... Finally, the reason why material on older adults and technology and internet usage is so frequently funny is due to its combination of surprise, clash of cultures, and genuine human interaction. It presents the disconnect between design and practice, respects curiosity, and reminds us to be aware that laughter can iron out the rough edges of technological upheaval. Far from being light entertainment, these examples emphasize the strength of people of all ages and show that humor is able to overcome generational boundaries even in the world of technology.
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Bewitched One 2 months ago
Me either. Poor thing was running from the runs after
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When your driving in to church and your stomach starts to lurch diarrhea! Diarrhea!
Bewitched One 2 months ago
Man I forgot all about that lol diarrhea song is nostalgic…. Interesting nostalgia
Load More Replies... chickpea me 2 months ago
That b*the again, she no good and you always let her run where she wanna go and it never up, mom!
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Stephanie Did It 2 months ago
Kimberly, aren't you and Megan supposed to be at Mom's for dinner?
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ZombieMommy 1 month ago
I did this with a guy I worked with. He was posting to FB so I thought he was out of jail. "Great to see you're out". He was not out. He had a contraband phone taking pictures in the jail
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chickpea me 2 months ago
That’s what some would call TMI or appetizers prolonged effect. Oh my, nothing to be scared of.
Adam Zad 2 months ago
My colon is just fine, but my semicolon is f[iretr]ucked up. I'm a man, so I don't have a period, but I may have to pound the streets and dash over to the hospital so they can slash me open at the right times. Plus I may have to brace myself and go into a medically induced comma to heal that semicolon. All else being equals, I'll work in a hyphen pun if you don't hit me with a pipe.
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Dragons Exist 2 months ago
There's never any "need" to swear, that's not gonna stop me from saying "fuck" if I want to
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sfgothgirl 2 months ago
I understand this reference. I also would like to share that I once got pulled over for a sobriety assessment by Officer E. Estrada of the CHP. At the end of the interaction when I was getting ready to drive off, I asked him if his first name was Erik, to which he begrudgingly admitted in the affirmative!
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nottheactualphoto 2 months ago
Won't you eat my sleazy pancakes, just for saintly Alfonzo?
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Cybele Spanjaard 2 months ago
Oh patient husband to model his wife's poncho just love his expression..
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HeavyMetalHeart 2 months ago
That’s Denise Welch, she’s a celebrity in the UK. (I’ve seen this before without the face blanked out)
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Panda Pops 2 months ago (edited)
Why has Denise Welch face been scribbled over?? 🤣🤣 She's literally a well known TV personality in the UK.. This is what made it funnier when it first started getting shared **edit for typos
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Multa Nocte 2 months ago
I feel bad for people who are trying to send horrible news and haven't mastered emoticons and emojis yet.
SGH 1 month ago
Perhaps dont use social.mwfia for this type of news... just a thought
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Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago
"I don't want anyone staring in disbelief at my willie suspension!" (Black Adder)
chickpea me 2 months ago
That’s concealed carrying!!! Did you ask him if he had a permit 🤣 🤣 🤣
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KatSaidWhat 2 months ago
This is what my mother used to do to me. Will never forget her impeccable timing during an argument with my brother about which parent was worse when we were young: "happy 40th for tomorrow - [sister] has a tumour the size of a grapefruit on her ovary" ... Reader, she did not.
#42
Stephanie Did It 2 months ago (edited)
Are they checking everyone's ears too, including their own?
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
I have four piercings and 3 tattoos. Two in each earlobe and a dot on my flanks and breastbone for radiation. But I guess that's only a technicality and she'd still call the cops.
Science Nerd 2 months ago
Are they checking for the butterfly on the butt with everyone they speak to?
Dominique Joseph 2 months ago
The they wonder why nobody is speaking to them and why they are lonely.
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The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago
Yes, thank you Facebook for your good couple of pictures. I will not be going back to look more though.
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Michael Largey 2 months ago
The background? Well he's worked there for a decade and a half, and things seem to have worked out for him. He has not achieved a permanent relationship yet, but he remains hopeful.
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Cybele Spanjaard 2 months ago
Oh dear, someone show her/him where to ask, or the p*o stains could last indefinitely, most grandmas know how I think
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Steve Kadner 2 months ago
She's adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of western Africa! Help Her!
Niki 2 months ago
I immediately thought the same thing, and was wondering how grandma got there. I also wanted to know what cell service she has because, wow!
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Bill Richman 2 months ago
His masculinity was threatened, but thinking about his manly trucks made him feel better?
Nikki Sevven 2 months ago
It's not about you, Randy. Also, you should never out someone to the entire fücking world.
The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago
I am also feeling disappointed in you Randy. You bag of Richards.
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Feathered Dinosaur 2 months ago
Then there's my dad who snuck into the hospital during Covid (it's was ok as long as he didn't enter a station) and my mum "smuggled" my newborn out of the maternity ward so could see and hold her for the first time 🥰
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Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago
Well, I like to stop my children dating stupid racist idiots. Is that prejudiced?
Talis 2 months ago
It is simply keeping the IQ of your offspring above a certain limit.
Load More Replies... Lorraine R 2 months ago (edited)
Too late. Actually, it's been too late for about 3,000 or 4,000 years, at least.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago
Yeah, just wanted to know if it was available, I didn't actually want it.
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Multa Nocte 2 months ago
Thanks for this. This is the second one I couldn't figure out right off due to the censoring madness.
Load More Replies... Bewitched One 2 months ago
Looks like the wife left after the accidental status. Don’t blame her
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Serena Myers 2 months ago
No such thing as too much cheese (unless you're lactose intolerant or just don't like cheese, of course)
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago (edited)
Yes, in fact I am. Because I'm allergic to cheese, and IT'S IN BLOODY EVERYTHING! Sorry, rant over...
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 months ago
nope. I love cheese. if you don't love cheese, maybe add less.
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Multa Nocte 2 months ago
🎶 Well, the weeks went by and - Spring turned to summer - And summer faded into fall - And it turns out he was a missing person - Who nobody missed at all 🎶
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What do you think ?
WubiDubi 2 months ago
This is going to happen to all of us. "Good morning. Please imagine your secret image to unlock your Neuralink 4."
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago (edited)
And how many dongs and b00bs will be imagined....?
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Janelle Collard 2 months ago
This is me now! I Google "how to do such-and-such" and it tells me: "Go to the XXX page and click on XXX" and I'm like, "How do I find the XXX page?" I feel sorry for the Geek Squad people - I'm sure after they hang up after talking with me they're laughing their faces off + telling their coworkers the whole conversation. My hubs and I (both 76) just got our 1st smartphones about 5 months ago + we're still googling how to do "such + such." We *have* mastered on + off! 😁
Auntriarch 2 months ago
You'll be fine. My mother got the hang of it and she's 89.
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nottheactualphoto 2 months ago
Depends on which internets we're talking about. Sir Tim's HTML came out when you were 10. TCP/IP, years before you were born.
Load More Replies... WubiDubi 2 months ago
This is going to happen to all of us. "Good morning. Please imagine your secret image to unlock your Neuralink 4."
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago (edited)
And how many dongs and b00bs will be imagined....?
Load More Replies... Janelle Collard 2 months ago
This is me now! I Google "how to do such-and-such" and it tells me: "Go to the XXX page and click on XXX" and I'm like, "How do I find the XXX page?" I feel sorry for the Geek Squad people - I'm sure after they hang up after talking with me they're laughing their faces off + telling their coworkers the whole conversation. My hubs and I (both 76) just got our 1st smartphones about 5 months ago + we're still googling how to do "such + such." We *have* mastered on + off! 😁
Auntriarch 2 months ago
You'll be fine. My mother got the hang of it and she's 89.
Load More Replies... nottheactualphoto 2 months ago
Depends on which internets we're talking about. Sir Tim's HTML came out when you were 10. TCP/IP, years before you were born.
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