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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
S/o IE: interwebs dumb
I use the internet everyday and for everyday things. I could live without it for a short period of time but not long. Do you know someone who is Internet dumb? For instance; they just don't know what to do and how to search for anything yet still have complete access to it.
This describes my MIL. She's a sweetheart but is completely interwebs dumb. She knows how to use Skype and only because we went through a two hour tutorial with her. Whenever she has a problem she goes to the library because some young man helps her there. She just emailed me to tell me that she can't find a non-stop flight for her daughter and her two kids. I went on and found it in two seconds. I sent her the info and told her we would help her further if she needed it this weekend via Skype. There are more stories but I'll keep it short. My mom is a little better but not too much. Her mishap was she just got an IPhone. When I was home in May I caught her using 411 to find the phone number for a restaurant. I told her to hang up and showed her how to properly use her IPhone and told her 411 is now obsolete to her.Please share your stories of someone interwebs dumb in your life? I need a good laugh.
This describes my MIL. She's a sweetheart but is completely interwebs dumb. She knows how to use Skype and only because we went through a two hour tutorial with her. Whenever she has a problem she goes to the library because some young man helps her there. She just emailed me to tell me that she can't find a non-stop flight for her daughter and her two kids. I went on and found it in two seconds. I sent her the info and told her we would help her further if she needed it this weekend via Skype. There are more stories but I'll keep it short. My mom is a little better but not too much. Her mishap was she just got an IPhone. When I was home in May I caught her using 411 to find the phone number for a restaurant. I told her to hang up and showed her how to properly use her IPhone and told her 411 is now obsolete to her.Please share your stories of someone interwebs dumb in your life? I need a good laugh.
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Re: S/o IE: interwebs dumb
Your description is pretty much my mil and mother to a 'T'. I find it ridiculously annoying, especially b/c they won't try to improve their computer/internet literacy, they just keep finding other people to do it for them.
For instance, a couple weekends ago my mil asked dh to look up some closet doors for her room. He just kind of looked at her and sighed and said 'you know the stores here that have them, start on their websites first. Worst case scenario, just google the door you want and see what comes up'. She just gave him a blank stare. But she knows very much how to use Farmville, Facebook and Skype....oh yeah, and dating sites lol.
Forget interwebs dumb. It's whole computer dumb. I can't say "open Skype." It's more like this.
"Do you see the square blue face down at the bottom of the screen?"
"You mean the music notes?"
"No. It's a face."
"I don't have a face."
"Look all the way to the left."
"Oh! A face!"
"Click on that."
"Nothing happened."
"A window didn't open up just now?"
"Yes, it did."
"Do you see where it says Applications in that window?"
"It doesn't say that."
"What does it say on the left side?"
"Macintosh HD? Desktop? Appli? oh."
"Click on that."
"I think I screwed up the computer."
"Why?"
"Everything in the window changed."
"Do you see Skype in that window now?"
"How would I know?"
"It would say the word Skype."
"Oh, then yes."
"Double click on that."
"I can't see you yet."
I've had that dialog with my mother pretty much every week for the past four years and she still asks how to do it. And heaven forbid she click on ANYTHING else while we're skyping or she'll get all I CAN'T SEE YOU WHAT DO I DO?!?!? She's totally convinced it's impossible to look at a website while skyping because then she'll never get to see me again.
Every month I send her a new desktop with pictures of the girls, and every month she has to ask my dad to set it for her. All you do is right click it and select "set as desktop." You'd think after the first 30 times or so she could remember that.