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Technologically challenged?

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grannyactivist Tue 05-Jul-16 23:58:57

I was reading on another thread about a problem playing a DVD on a TV without a DVD player and it brought home to me how technologically challenged I am these days.

I am far from being a Luddite; I have a laptop/iPad/p.c./iPhone/Kindle/digital camera and recently was bought a music system. I'm on Facebook and Twitter and use WhatsApp, Facetime and Skype. So it seems as if I'm fairly up to date, yes?

Well actually I have only the vaguest notion of what I'm doing with most of these things. It took me a day of frustration before my husband came home from work to show me how to insert a CD into into my new music player! blush I have a dock for my iPhone, but I don't know how to use it. I've downloaded a few recently bought albums onto my laptop, but have no idea how to get them onto my phone and still less how to make a 'playlist'. I'm not really sure what a soundbar is or does. I take photographs, but don't know how to turn them into paper copies. I think I have to take the memory card out and go to a shop that prints them, but I see the machines that (I think) do this stuff and go into a funk. I only use a very small number of the programmes/apps etc. on my various machines and struggle with some very basic features. [Sigh]

Then along comes one of my children and reveals a hitherto unknown bit of information (I can now switch off the annoying clicks on my iPhone when I'm pressing the keys - who knew?) or uploads a useful app for me - and I realise once again that there is a whole world at my fingertips if only I had the time, the patience and the know-how to access it.

Is it just me?

Auntieflo Sat 09-Jul-16 09:32:45

Not a digital thought, but, a long while ago, when our car battery needed charging, and OH was at work, I thought, I can do that. Got out the book and read up the whys and wherefores, BUT, what it didn't tell you, was how to open the bonnet! Had to swallow pride and ask a neighbour.

mialanka Tue 08-Nov-16 12:26:04

ask google for help with technology. It was a revelation when I first discovered this. You just need to type in to the browser what it is you want to do as concisely as possible eg change battery smartphone, find weather ipad, volume control ipad, take screenshot and you will get lots of answers.
Try it next time you get stuck.