Funny Tech Stories

Funny Family-Tech Stories: My Mom Learns How to Make Happy Faces in IM

GeekSugar — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:55:16 -0800

Last night, I had the pleasure of chatting with my mom over IM, which is always a rare treat that's full of surprises.

After putting a smiley face emoticon at the end of a sentence, she was determined to get in on the smiley-face action, and create one herself. Her first-ever, smiley face emoticon was achieved. And thankfully, I had it all documented in our IM conversation. Great job, mom!

And don't even begin to ask me how she knows what OMG is!

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Funny Family-Tech Stories: The Case of "Wiffy"

GeekSugar — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:00:01 -0800

With most of us heading home for the holidays, it's inevitable that there are going to be those hilarious moments with parents and grandparents whenever the subject of computers or the Internet comes up. For instance, whenever my dad wants me to check his email (he's in phase two of checking his own email, I swear), he says "spin up my www." I'm sure we'll all have a lot of stories to share after the holidays, but to get the ball rolling here is a cute one from TeamSugar user GirlC.

The other day my dad called me. "I keep reading about something and I was hoping you could explain it to me," he said. "Let me get the article." I wait while I hear papers being shuffled around."Okay got it. What's wiffy?"
"Wiffy?"
"Yeah, Wiffy. They're talking about it and the Internet and my cellphone."
"Wiffy? Spell it for me," I asked. "W-i-f-i, and there's a dash between the first i and f." After I finished laughing (phone on mute), I let him know it's pronounced, "Why-Feye."

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Broken printer! Or is it actually broken....?

starofsorrow — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:45:22 -0700

Everybody has at least one family member that thinks they know more about computers than you do yourselves, right? It's the same with me and my father. I'll give a little background here!

My father has been using a computer since the early days of IBM, late 80s to early 90s, because he needs it for his jobs. I, on other hand, have been raised on computer useage. What that means, in my case, is that I learned how to keyboard without even looking at the keyboard when I was six. (I'm 23 now, almost 24.) I learned how to use a Mac when I was only six, and an PC when I was around nine or so. So, we've been using a computer for roughly the same amount of time.

He's pretty handy with a computer, but sometimes he just fustrates me when something goes wrong with his computer. It's invariably my fault BECAUSE I was the last person to use it in his world, even if I hadn't used it in over a week and he used it the day before.

One morning, my father left me a note on my own personal computer (I had a custom-built computer, whereas he had a standard issue computer.) written in all caps that I broke his printer. The tone of the message was extremly angry, and the thing that puzzled me the most was that I had NOT used the printer in the past three days, and Dad used it the day or two before. I went upstairs to the printer in his office, looked around on the computer. Turns out it was deactivated. He said I broke the printer becuase it wouldn't print out anything.

He eventually apolgized for blaming me, but trust me, it's not gonna be the last time he blames me for technology problems!

Geek Group Tell All: Funny Tech Stories

GeekSugar — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:00:54 -0700

Thanks to TeamSugar user Girl C for submitting a hilarious story to our Funny Tech Stories group. Her story reminds me that while it's often easier to just take over and help someone fix their computer problems, there are some people that aren't worth reasoning with. Girl C shares:

"I'll start by saying my boss is a tool, and not a useful one! He's the kind of guy that hears a phrase and latches on to it and then uses it over and over without knowing it's meaning. This past month he learned about defragmenting the computer. Someone told him about it and now he 'needs' it done all the time. Today he called me into his office and said 'Uhh C, did you defrag my computer today?' Me, 'Yes.' He's made it part of my duties to do it to his computer daily! 'Well, it's running slow. Do you think I need to defrag it again?' I peered at his screen and he had about 30 different programs open, including several instances of Internet Explorer. I could either explain he's probably maxing out memory or I could just say yes. So I said yes.

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"Should my loved one be placed in an Assisted Computing Facility?"

chlyn — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:49:23 -0800

"Loving Care...For the Technically Spare.

"For family members, it is often the most difficult and painful decision they will face: to accept that a loved one - a parent, a spouse, perhaps a sibling - is technologically impaired and should no longer be allowed to live independently, or come near a computer or electronic device without direct supervision. The time has come to place that loved one into the care of an Assisted Computing Facility.

WHAT EXACTLY IS AN 'ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY'?

"Most fully accredited ACFs, like Silicon Pines, are oases of hope and encouragement that allow residents to lead productive, technologically relevant lives without the fear and anxiety associated with actually having to understand or execute the technologies themselves."

Top 5 Signs of a Family Computer Deficiency

chlyn — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:28:51 -0800

There's nothing funny about my family members and computers - it's a total disaster. But I'll try to make it funny.

Top 5 Signs a Family Member Has a Computer Deficiency

5. You get an e-mail with the line "Send this to everyone you know, and also send it back to me"
4. You get a phone call: "The cup holder's broken."
3. You get a phone call: "What does it mean when the hard drive goes ga-thunk ga-thunk ga-thunk?"
2. You get a phone call: "How do I send an attachment?"
1. You get an e-mail and it's empty - blank - nada.

Family, you kind of have to be nice to 'em

Bonne — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:28:04 -0800

Dad called in stating that his computer wouldn't print. I walked him through the whole - is it on? does it have paper? Does it have ink? - type of deal until he brought it over. I let it sit for about a month before I actually got to looking at it. It turns out that he brought the wrong ink cartridge and tried to jam it in until it 'fit'

Ink is ink, eh?

Mom couldn't figure out the different between left click and right click - until I put those friendly left/right stickers on the mouse.

Grandpa, surprising is pretty good at the computer. But he uses a magnifying glass to actually read it. He didn't like any of the other programs to help him and prefer the manual method.

Finally, my sister is in her twenties and should know the basic of computer uses. I get that call in the middle of the night, the "my computer doesn't work" call that I would really want to hang up and go back to sleep but ignore the urge and try to help her. She was in the process of moving and ended up getting lost. She decided to stop on the side of the road, spend about 30 minutes attaching the PC/moniter/keyboard/mouse together and push the power button. Only to realize that the dang computer wouldn't turn on. She didn't realized that the computer needed to be plugged in to some type of power supply...

New geeksugar Group: Funny Family Tech Stories

GeekSugar — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:05:42 -0800

My dad still calls his e-mail his "www" and my sister calls me at least once a week in a terror because she can't seem to pick up a wireless connection. While some family tech stories are terribly annoying - others are downright funny.

Does your mom think net surfing is a type of sport and your grandma thinks a computer virus is an actual bug? Let us know all your geekilarious family tech stories so we can share experiences and get a good laugh! Click on Funny Family Tech Stories to submit your own memorable family tech tale!