Parents Just Don't Understand: 12/16

Do your parents not understand technology? Do they ask you stupid questions? Do they send you absurd text messages? Do they use words like “MyFace,”“SpaceBook,“or “The World Wide Web?“ 

If you’ve got an example of your Parents Just Don’t Understanding, submit it here! 

And thank God we’ll never be as dumb as they are!

My mom thinks my friend’s last name is legally changed since he changed it on Facebook.
Mariah Tess, UWO

My mom told me that one of her old friends had moved to to a farm and asked her to come visit. I wasn’t really interested until she said the invitation was on facebook and she had moved to a place called “Farmville.”
Emily C

My dad thought that online banking would make the computer into an ATM and cash would come out of the printer.
alison levine, Vanier college

My mom ends every Facebook conversation with the whole list of available emoticons.
Julián Péter, Slovak Technical University, Slovakia

I just talked to my dad on the phone and when I told him I was in the library, he started whispering. Oh dad.
sophie b

My mom just googled yahoo because she heard it was the best “web engine.”
Nick Smith

I was trying to walk my Mother through looking at my tuition bill online, after almost fifteen minutes she still could not get the homepage to load. I had her walk me through exactly what she did. She had been repeatedly typing www.gvsu.edu.com.
Melissa Ryall, Grand Valley State University

While spending spring break at my elderly aunt’s house, I was playing Sims 2 on my laptop. She asked what I was doing and I proceeded to show her the house I was building. She got really excited and told me she had a program on her computer that did that, and I should use hers. She opened MS Paint.
Beth Dent

My mom bought two mouses for our computer in case the first one ever “runs out.”
Ben M.

My mom asked me to buy a new computer for her, so I asked her what operating system she wanted. She replied, “I use Google.”
Mikkel Olesen

Submit yours here!