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?"

Your parents' Windows 7.

My mom called me to tell me she liked my Facebook status.
Colleen McAuliffe, Georgia Southern University

Today my I was watching the Vikings/Packers game when that NFL robot graphic came up on the screen and my mom asked, "How much do you think that guy gets paid to sit inside that robo-suit?"
tyler storrs

My dad thinks Google Earth is in real time.
Kaleigh F. O

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?"

Your parents' Safari.

My mom thinks I'm really popular because of how many people wished me Happy Birthday on Facebook.
Peter L, NCSU

Mom: "I loved the Twilight soundtrack! Even bought two copies so I didn't have to move it from car to house!!"
Roy Fahrenheit

My mom has called it "Michaelsoft" for years.
Flibbo B, WWU Muenster

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?"

Your parents' File Sharing.

I just walked into my mom's office as she tried to drag a picture from her desktop onto her facebook page. I asked her what she was doing and she replied, "I want to change my profile picture."
Tessa D

My mom put the same song on a playlist 15 times so it would keep repeating.
Greg Knowles, Manhattan College

My mom called me to tell me she can text.
Dan Ranges, SUNY Purchase

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?"

Your parents' artificial intelligence.

My mom, who is no stranger to checking emails, having accounts and the like decided to get a Facebook. When prompted to created a password she thought she had to fill the entire box, resulting in a complex 40+ character password that she forgot.
Andrew Fry

My dad has a bunch of photos he wants printed professionally. He doesn't know how to transfer them to a memory stick so I said I'd do it. He gave me a headphone jack two way splitter to put the images on.
Gabe N-H

My mom makes popcorn on the stove.
C. R.

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?"

Your parents' Google Doc.

My sister's school is paying a man $500 to give a one hour session on what twitter is so that "the parents can understand what their kids are doing with their time."
David Thomase

My mom texted me about getting a case for my Macbook, and she typed it as MAC. She thinks it's an acronym.
Rob Baumann, U of Maryland

My mom signs her tweets.
Melanie Hanson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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?"

Your parents' MP3.

My mom just joined Facebook, so I IMed her. She was typing for a long time before she finally called me and asked how to make it send what she wrote because she couldn't find the button. I told her to hit enter. This is the IM I got: "Are you IMing me on purpose or is this auto? I don't know how to use this thing. How do I send this? Can you see me typing? Help help help help ... Send send send send send send send send send send send send now send now send now finished SEND SEND Help send..."
Rebecca S., ASU

My girlfriend's dad typed a huge letter out on the computer. After he was done, he printed it and decided the font was too small, so he erased the whole thing, changed the font size, and retyped it.
Mike Williams

My mom just asked me if I have an email address.
Kyle Bourret

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?"

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Your parents' Star Wars Kid.

My dad and I were in the car on a long drive. I showed him my new GPS and pointed out that it calculated how long it would take to arrive. He turns to me and asks, "Does it take into account stopping for lunch?"
Jeff Poley, NC State

Whenever my Dad wants to turn my computer off he comes over and turns the bass on my speakers to zero, and turns off the monitor.
Johnny Osborne

My mother claimed she could not read my latest email because her printer was broken.
Jen Mach

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?"

Your parents' Nano.

My mom thinks her Cyberlink Youcam software is the same thing as Youtube and refuses to use it for fear of "broadcasting herself onto the internet."
Laura N.

My mom posted a link that didn't work on her Facebook page. Ten minutes later she commented "delete this" on it.
Katie Lehde, Portland State University

My mom sent an invite to gmail to my gmail address.
lauren pee

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?"

Your parents' Zune HD.

I just heard my mom tell my grandma, "Facebook is like a giant party line!"
Leah Cockrell

My aunt thinks mozilla firefox with aol.com set as the homepage is the new version of AOL.
Francesco P

The other day my Mom picked up my blue scientific calculator that I hadused for Chemistry in high school. After flipping it over and examiningit thoroughly for about a minute she asked, "Is this a blackberry?"
John M

My mom has a Jitterbug.
Steve Calvin, SFU

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?"

Your parents' Zwinky.

My mom thought rumble strips in roads were for blind people so that they know when to slow down and stop.
Jaran Hea, Western Illinois Univeristy

I just taught my mom how to highlight text.
Erika , UWO

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?"

Your parents' StumbleUpon.

My mother once tried to confiscate my laptop because she found what she thought was "(P)or(n)o(g)raphy." It was an image of a star saved as a .png file.
David Goosey

My stepmom got a new blackberry and needed to log on to check her email. She started taking the case off of her blackberry, and when my dad asked what what she was doing, she said, "The log-in screen says that it's case sensitive."
Brooke Goldstein

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?"

Your parents' Beatles Rock Band.

My grandmother recently got a laptop so she would stop having to ask us to look things up for her. Today she yelled at me because I said I couldn't change the Windows menu button from saying "start" to saying "turn off." Apparently, the laptop is trying to trick her and I'm just as bad for not being able to fix it.
Patty F.

My grandma just bought a new VCR.
Jim d, PSU

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?"

Your parents' MacBook.

The other day I watched a DVD and forgot to set the TV back to cable mode. I found my mom sitting in front of a blank TV screen and when I asked her what she was doing, she said, "Waiting for the channels to load."
Sarah Chalek

The other day my mom was watching the news on a regular channel. When I asked why she wasn't watching it on an HD channel since we pay for them she replied, "Well, what time do the HD channels start?"
Andrew H, University of Calgary

My mom recently joined Facebook, and sent me a Facebook chat asking me how to use Facebook chat.
Kimberly Otter, Truman State

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?"

Your parents' Ask.com

My dad asked me if my laptop had some sort of back-up that allowed it to run even when the power was out. He then declared he should get something similar for the family desktop.
Holly Hood

My mom bought an iPhone, but returned it because, "every time you touch the screen, it does something."
Pete T, Purdue

My mom got really frustrated when she typed louisianaemployment.com into the Firefox address bar and it came up with "Page Not Found." I hesitantly offered that it wasn't the address and maybe she should Google it. She screamed, "I thought that's what I was doing!"
Christine S

Your parents' broadband.

My dad was stuck on the computer one day looking for an "any key." The website he was on said press any key to continue.
Joe H, Ole Miss

My dad makes the subject for all of his emails "Hi, It's Mitch."
Brian Landes

I used to work in my school library and one afternoon this guy comes up to the front desk and asks for help saying "The computer just started typing in latin, I can't understand it." I go to see what he's talking about and it turns out he was just typing in italics.
Mari Gilfoil

My mom sent me an email with the subject as my cell phone number. The email said "Is this a text?"
Hannah L

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?"

Your parents' Bing.

I recently installed a wireless router for my parents. After everything was up and running my mom asked me if she still needed to hit the button on the front of the computer. Confused, I asked what she was talking about. She pointed to the power button. Yeah mom, you still have to turn on the computer.
mike smith

My Grandpa forgot his email password, so he canceled his internet
JD Ellis

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?"

Your parents' Facebook.

My dad wears two sets of headphones when on the computer... one earpiece is from the heaphones connected to the computer so he can hear "when he has mail" (AOL) and the other earpiece is connected to his "music player" (iPod) so he can have music in the background while on the computer.
Jungle Juice

My mom deleted friends off Facebook in an attempt to free up her hard drive space.
Jake Shimell

Your parents' Pandora.

Stephanie Peterson, Kennesaw State University

The other day my mom asked if youtube videos "expire" because one video she was watching didn't load all the way.

k Funk

From the other room I just heard my mother shout out in frustration, "I so suck at clip art!"

Bryan S, F&M

This is my aunt's Facebook status right now: Okay. I will call U. Stephanie Peterson, Kennesaw State University

The other day my mom asked if youtube videos "expire" because one video she was watching didn't load all the way.k Funk From the other room I just heard my mother shout out in frustration, "I so suck at clip art!" Bryan S, F&M