Comments | soleta_nf: It's only a flesh wound

soleta_nf

It's only a flesh wound

Sep 17, 2007 18:55

( Rant about the latest lj_biz post, conveniently cut )

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snapdragon76 September 17 2007, 23:16:38 UTC

I'm not tech savvy at all and people who think only those who are are the only ones on the Internet are the idiots. The Internet is used by practically everyone and it has become a lot more user friendly than in the past (Lordy, I remember being on Prodigy BB's).

Places such as these are used by the general public the majority of whom are either teenagers or in their 20's (there are a few notable exceptions). So it's very important to word any official notices and whatnot in plain English.

soleta_nf September 18 2007, 16:10:43 UTC

Agreed!

thefabone September 18 2007, 00:57:06 UTC

Recently my dad wanted to read his emails. None of his passwords worked, he tried to log into his account several times.
Then I told him that he's on the log-in page of a completely different email server than the one he's normally using. It didn't even remotely look like his log-in page (even with the log-in button on the other side), but he hadn't noticed.
So yeah, I can definitely agree - using the Internet is no sign of understanding it.

soleta_nf September 18 2007, 16:05:50 UTC

I completely agree.

chrryblssmninja September 18 2007, 05:51:15 UTC

Don't mean to sound so cheery, but thanks for the update!

soleta_nf September 18 2007, 10:58:43 UTC

No problem! Love the icon btw. :D

chrryblssmninja September 18 2007, 17:36:23 UTC

Thanks! Taken from thefunkyicon. It's so true.

soleta_nf September 18 2007, 19:25:29 UTC

I've seen the text before, I forget from where, and it looks GREAT as an icon. I'm going to snag. Thanks!

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redshoeson September 18 2007, 14:28:42 UTC

I was directed here - looks like we can opt out. ^^

soleta_nf September 18 2007, 16:05:21 UTC

Yup, I saw that in the original post and have done so. :)

redshoeson September 18 2007, 19:21:24 UTC

Snap! *high fives*

anonymous September 22 2007, 12:53:02 UTC

People saying that if you don't understand the technical speak in the original post, then you're an idiot.

just chiming in with, i could not agree with you more. my default response is always, no, i'm not an idiot, i'm a research biophysicist working in a particularly troublesome area in human immunology. i can understand very complex concepts. maybe this fairly simple concept is being badly explained to me.

abundantlyqueer,
anonymous now because i deleted my lj.

soleta_nf September 22 2007, 16:24:10 UTC

That's a great response! Good luck in your non-LJ endeavours.