Computer Stupidities

Have you ever done anything that you know is just outright dumb? Like, lock your keys in the car, while you are looking right at them laying in the seat? Or putting a disc in your computer upside down, and then wondering why it won't install. I have done some dumb things myself (not that I'm bragging, of course), we all have. Today's Family First site is about some dumb things that happen in the computer world. Reading through them, I am sure we will all be able to relate to them.

The site is called Computer Stupidities, and it is a large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users. It's a baffling phenomenon that in today's society an individual, who might in other circumstances be considered smart and wise, can sit down in front of a computer screen and instantly lose every last shred of common sense he ever possessed. Complicate this phenomenon with a case of "computerphobia," and you end up with tech support personnel having phone conversations that are funny in retrospect but seem like perfectly valid motives for wild machine gun shooting sprees at the time. There are stories in this file that will convince you that among the human race are human-shaped artichokes futilely attempting to break the highly regarded social convention that vegetables should not operate electronic equipment. And yet, amidst the vast, surging quantities of stupidity are perfectly excusable technological mishaps -- but that are amusing nonetheless. After all, even the best of us engages in a little brainless folly every once in a while.

Most of these stories are true. Some are considered urban legends, but even most of these are more likely to have happened in some form or another than not. Skeptics look at such stories and doubt their truth. But reason, common sense, and experience tell me that if you sit someone who isn't computer literate (even a smart someone) down in front of a computer, you're bound to accrue anecdotes no less outrageous than these. You'd be surprised.

http://rinkworks.com/stupid/

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