Most of us surely remember helping our parents and grandparents solve technology related problems, because "you play on the computer all the time, so you must know everything about it".
Sometimes though they fail at technology so hilariously that you just can't resist sharing their mistakes with the "tech wise kids". Bored Panda collected such examples to remind that while our parents and grandparents may know much more than we, the younger generation do, when it comes to technology it's us that come to the rescue.
If you've captured someone older failing at technology be sure to add it to this list. And don't forget to upvote and comment your favorite fails as well!
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So Today My Nana Showed Me Some Of Her Favorite Websites
When My Grandma Googles Something She Puts "Please" And "Thank You"
My Nana Asked Me To Fix Her Phone Because "The Outside Clock Is Always Showing The Wrong Time"
My Grandmother Complained Her Remote Was Confusing, So I Grandma-Ified It For Her
Honestly, all the other buttons are kind of a waste unless you have on demand.
My Dad Doesn't Know How To Turn Off This Front Camera Heart Feature On His Phone And He Tried To Send Me A Pic Of His New Stove
My 90 Year Old Grandma From Japan, Showing Us How She Zooms In With An Iphone
My Grandma Is Getting Pretty High Tech These Days...
When Mom Uses Technology
Friend's Grandma Just Asked Whose Phone This Is
Grandma Sent Me This In The Mail. Slowest Picture Message Ever
I feel like the process of getting a picture off of your phone and printed is far more sophisticated.
I Told Him The Computer Was Frozen. He's Trying To Unfreeze It With A Blow Dryer
We've hijacked words and made them into something they don't understand, awww.
My Grandma Took Her First Selfie Today. She's Using The Front Camera To Take A Mirror Selfie
My Dad Said "Look, Those TV Models Are Pirates"
My Dad Doesn't Know How To Text On His Flip Phone, So He Always Sends Me Multimedia Messages
The best idea!! I need to talk with my dad, he has to do that!
Mom Asked Why The Computer Was So Slow. She Has Eleven Toolbars
My Grandma Called Me Over To Fix Her Computer Because "Everything Moves Backwards"
Mom Tries To Send Me A Pic Of Grandma's Diapers So I Can Get Some At The Store. Somehow "The Phone Doesn't Let Me Send Pictures!" Two Hours Later I Realize She Made It Her Profile Picture. Still Hasn't Noticed It
When Your Mom Spectacularly Misunderstands The Cry Laughing Emoji
I think its pretty clear, this person thought the emoji was crying, not laughing so hard it cried.
Good Job, Grandma (She's 82)
So My Dad Got His First Camera Phone Today...
My Grandma Got A New Phone, My Dad Receives This
Got My Mom An Ipad, Had It Engraved
I Opened My Moms Computer This Morning And Found My Hd Grandmom As Her Wallpaper
My Girlfriend's Grandma Thought The Ipad Was A Cutting Board
Thanksgiving Means Fixing Everyone's Computer Or Phone Problems. My Mom Is Only Person I Know That Can Get Ads On Her Lock Screen
So We Got Grandma A Tv...
Just Got My Grandma Her First Cordless Phone. Baby Steps
At least she put it back on the dock. My grandma loses them as often as the remote!
My Grandma Printed Some Photos From Her Phone
Dad Gets A New Phone For Xmas, Struggles With Voice Text
Hashtag Mom
When Grandma Can't Hear You On The Phone
This is why I'm thankful for the earphones that came with my iphone. I use those things religiously for conversations.
Traveling With My Mom. Saw Her Phone, And Investigated. Informed Her That She Used The Screen Protector's Throwaway Film Instead Of The Actual Screen Protector. She Literally Used Trash As A Screen Protector
Saw This Guy Working On His Computer In A Cafe
I Swear Every Mom Texts Like This
I can confirm this. My mom will use her left thumb and right index finger. No idea how she does it. I'm all thumbs.
Agreed. The keyboard on iOS isn't designed to handle multiple fingers at once. Then there's the HORRIBLE iPad Pro on-screen keyboard which is an absolute abomination of looks-over-functionality (as in, it looks like you should touch type, but it is impossible).
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I'm not that old and I text like this! I don't use my thumbs as they are too clumsy.
Same here. I find texting with my thumbs to feel really awkward, especially since I have a slightly too-large phone.
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I'm 24 and up until this moment I thought this was considered normal.
I've seen this a lot, but never once occur to me, this is 'old people' stuff ^_^
I do it like this too, just faster (and with swipe). It hurts much less than using a thumb.
text with your thumbs people it is faster unless you have arthritis
its not moms, if you dont have stumpy small fingers, then pointing at it is the only way
I text with my thumbs, and I enter passwords and play app games with my fingers. I have fat thumbs too but have never had a problem, lol.
I laughed along at this nodding my head because I can see my mum doing it when I closed my eyes, but then I looked down at my 2.5 year old and gasped - holy s**t! I AM A MUM! And I also use an index finger to type with. But I engage the use of other fingers too. Phew.
yep. My mom uses her middle finger and always complains that using her pointer is always more clumsy!
Told My Dad I Needed A New Mouse. He Pulled This
My Dad Got A New Phone And Doesn't Have A Case Yet. He Kept It In The Box
Went Home To Find My Mom's Computer Like This... She Said "I Thought I Would Get Better Internet"
Thanks
Grandma Sends Selfie
You Gonna Need A Bigger Screen
My Grandma Got A New Computer And Wanted Me To "Install" The Internet
My Mom Just Got A Phone For The First Time (Face Palm)
Mom, Lol, That's Not The Right Kind Of Screen Protector...
Can You Take My Photo? Sure...
This Is How My Grandma Is Watching The Cricket Match On The TV. I Should Probably Get Her A Bigger One For Xmas
Laugh all you want, you'll be THAT grandparent one day and kids will laugh at you for not knowing how to use the holo-transporter.
Don't think so. I think we'll have to learn. Because our parents and grandparents still have friends to do activities with no major technology involved. We'll have to adapt to keep up with our more-tech-interested friends and younger family members.
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Honestly one of the best I've seen recently. I loughted so hard while reading, that my colleague next to me was giving me a strange look lol
The grandma of someone I know said some 15 years ago: "Does my tv also have that internet thing?" (Talking about those black pages with colourfull letters on it, don't know the english word....teletext?) Her younger family members all had a good laugh about that....silly grandma.....but who's laughing know?!?! She was a visionary!!!!
I'm 72 years old and this is the most I've laughed in four years! Of course I've been messing with computers for thirty some years.
You should all aspire to getting old. The alternative sucks. Hopefully you'll all get there.
My mom couldn't figure out how to set the time on her VCR back in the day. I countless times tried to teach her how, but ended up resetting it until I moved out. Years later I found out she still had never learned... She would just wait until 12:00, and unplug it/plug it back in. Honestly, I have to give her kudos for ingenuity.
I still don't understand twitter. I'm only 35. I'm going to be screwed in 10 years. Damn kids with their fancy future toys.
I'm pretty sure twitter is, like totally lame! Or, in normal speak, I too do not understand it, therefore it is a waste of time :-)
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I'm 32 years old, and i'm stuck at windows 7.. and i feel dumb when i use windows 10, i feel the same way the old people feels. this is life circle. there was a time for them, there was a time for us.. and now there's time for the new generations.
Broke my heart, actually.. I wish my dad was still around and asking me for help with his gadgets.. still keep his last flip phone.. don't laugh off your loved ones, help them and teach them how to use new technology.. remember, they are the ones that trained you on how to use a toilette..
well each time a Skype my parents I see their ceiling (sometimes part of their forehead or their eyes if I'm lucky) :P
who is the idiot calling floppy drives "flash drives from the 90's"? We didn't have flash drives in the 90's. Sometimes the younger ones are the idiots.
OK. Let's get even time....All you tech savvy kids out there: Survive for a year without the benefit of anything that was invented post 1950. Or even post 1960. I'd like to see how foolish you are, not to mention how hungry, how dirty, how sick, how lonesome, how frustrated!!
I didn't find anything funny in this. Now, maybe I've lost my sense of humor somewhere today, but this is just mocking people.
I got a Birthday card once from my closest friend and it said, "Remember when we used to laugh at old people what the hell was so funny?" Well I'm there now!
Laugh all you want, you'll be THAT grandparent one day and kids will laugh at you for not knowing how to use the holo-transporter.
Don't think so. I think we'll have to learn. Because our parents and grandparents still have friends to do activities with no major technology involved. We'll have to adapt to keep up with our more-tech-interested friends and younger family members.
Load More Replies... Honestly one of the best I've seen recently. I loughted so hard while reading, that my colleague next to me was giving me a strange look lol
The grandma of someone I know said some 15 years ago: "Does my tv also have that internet thing?" (Talking about those black pages with colourfull letters on it, don't know the english word....teletext?) Her younger family members all had a good laugh about that....silly grandma.....but who's laughing know?!?! She was a visionary!!!!
I'm 72 years old and this is the most I've laughed in four years! Of course I've been messing with computers for thirty some years.
You should all aspire to getting old. The alternative sucks. Hopefully you'll all get there.
My mom couldn't figure out how to set the time on her VCR back in the day. I countless times tried to teach her how, but ended up resetting it until I moved out. Years later I found out she still had never learned... She would just wait until 12:00, and unplug it/plug it back in. Honestly, I have to give her kudos for ingenuity.
I still don't understand twitter. I'm only 35. I'm going to be screwed in 10 years. Damn kids with their fancy future toys.
I'm pretty sure twitter is, like totally lame! Or, in normal speak, I too do not understand it, therefore it is a waste of time :-)
Load More Replies... I'm 32 years old, and i'm stuck at windows 7.. and i feel dumb when i use windows 10, i feel the same way the old people feels. this is life circle. there was a time for them, there was a time for us.. and now there's time for the new generations.
Broke my heart, actually.. I wish my dad was still around and asking me for help with his gadgets.. still keep his last flip phone.. don't laugh off your loved ones, help them and teach them how to use new technology.. remember, they are the ones that trained you on how to use a toilette..
well each time a Skype my parents I see their ceiling (sometimes part of their forehead or their eyes if I'm lucky) :P
who is the idiot calling floppy drives "flash drives from the 90's"? We didn't have flash drives in the 90's. Sometimes the younger ones are the idiots.
OK. Let's get even time....All you tech savvy kids out there: Survive for a year without the benefit of anything that was invented post 1950. Or even post 1960. I'd like to see how foolish you are, not to mention how hungry, how dirty, how sick, how lonesome, how frustrated!!
I didn't find anything funny in this. Now, maybe I've lost my sense of humor somewhere today, but this is just mocking people.
I got a Birthday card once from my closest friend and it said, "Remember when we used to laugh at old people what the hell was so funny?" Well I'm there now!
