When Digital Immigrants Get Together

I was on Facebook the other day hanging out with the other old folks when I came across this exchange. I have heard that babies nowadays will try to swipe a magazine page like it’s an iPad. Apparently we older GeekMoms have the same trouble keeping all the different kinds of technology available today straight. […]

I was on Facebook the other day hanging out with the other old folks when I came across this exchange. I have heard that babies nowadays will try to swipe a magazine page like it's an iPad. Apparently we older GeekMoms have the same trouble keeping all the different kinds of technology available today straight. Last names have been removed to protect the innocent:

Helen: Okay, so I discovered a problem with the awesome iPad Jim & Krista gave me: I just tried to reach up and scroll the screen on my laptop...

Jacki: I often press the unlock tab on my car key fob to unlock the entrance door to our townhouse

Amy: I'm always surprised when I misspell words while writing in my journal and they don't automatically correct themselves - or at least underline themselves with a red squiggly.

Laura: I can't understand why I can't hit some kind of rewind when I want to hear the last few minutes of a radio broadcast as I can with a podcast or dvr recording.

Jeanie: long ago, my first trip to Seattle, pre digital days, couldn't see buttons in elevator but saw a phone handset so picked it up and dialed the floor...

Krista: I keep trying to call people with my iPad too.

Marsha: I thought I was the only one who did stuff like that!

Linda: like walking away with your kitchen faucet running thinking it will turn itself off.

Louise: Is that anything like pressing the clutch on an automatic?

Linda: Oh I did that in my mom's 72 Chrysler station wagon, Sent my husband crumpled into the dash. Its funny now.

Ann: Linda, or worse...thinking the toilet will flush itself!

Linda: that can be embarrassing.

This ... and the fact that I still haven't figured out how to use G+ yet ... is the reason why I won't be leaving Facebook anytime soon!

[Thanks to Helen Hegener and her Facebook friends for having a good sense of humor!]