#technological illiteracy

[autisticsupervillain]

People of Tumblr, what is the most egregious case of technological illiteracy you've ever seen?

[prime-tiktoks]

[merelygifted]

They had a really crummy app that screwed up the entire thing apparently, and now they're doing it old school with paper ballots.

Wolf Blitzer on the Iowa caucus "results," 4 Feb 2020

[levilie]

Dealing with someone who's technologically illiterate is a kind of torture i wouldn't wish on my worst enemy

[gyrrakavian]

It would seem my brother is as incompetent at internet safety as our parents are.

I'm going to have to take it in, and I'll be deleting his account once I get my poor compy back.

What makes this more annoying is the fact that he's great at repairing motherboards and circuitry. I suppose it's the difference between the pit mechanics and the racecar driver.

[ogradyfilm]

When you’re experimenting with the idea of a podcast and end up accidentally deleting twenty-three minutes of audio during the editing process thanks to the recording app’s extremely unintuitive user interface:

[thatsmysteez]

I was wondering if you maybe have a Kik or Snapchat i could have?😊

I am a caveman. I live in my cave and don’t adequately adopt the increasingly ADHD application-based technologies around me. I bang rocks together in futile attempts to make fire but nothing gives. I am still of the belief that the best phone I ever owned was a blackberry. I am a caveman. Give me an app that isn’t exclusively geared to gay men and I seize up, overwhelmed with the panic that the robots are taking over or something like that.

I hope that answers your question.

[charmillaria]

so i've been trying to collect all the papers i've written over the years, particularly by going through my email archives to find ones i sent to myself to print etc (before Google Drive was a thing), sad though because i have no way of accessing the papers i sent to myself on my bryn mawr email, and if i sent from my bryn mawr email to another email, surely they would have been permanently deleted by now, so i'm sad about losing all of those papers. like i wrote a long paper on beards as phallic symbols how can i no longer have that??

(i don't want to go through the trouble of contacting bryn mawr's tech services or anything because like this is a super minor thing but i guess if there's some cool tech thing to re-find emails deleted years ago i'd love the help?)