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Nealithi wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:37 am

ProfessorDetective wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:06 pm

hammerofglass wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:10 pm I'm honestly kind of confused by how big a deal people still make about Facebook. It's been a ghost town for a few years now.

It's the main social media network for a lot of the developing world and a lot of barely tech-literate Americans (the older types who learn one way to do things and will NOT budge from it, eg Zoom, Yahoo Mail).

My issue with this comment is there is a mockery attached to learned skills. Keep adapting or some such nonsense. I can get to the programs I want to run with these three clicks. Now they are hidden behind obscure sounding names and take more steps to get the same results you had the day before. But the 'old' people are to blame. Why has the GUI for mailing been altered? Used to be Name, Company Name, Address. No no now it is a quiz. Give us the postal code. Oh we don't recognize that. Three more times then direct you to a person for what is supposed to be a simple online experience that Used to work. Guess what the new version forced down everyone's throats only accepts five numeric digits. No alphabet and no more than five. Great, but my Home postal code covers five towns and has three streets with the same name and numbers. You need the other four to actually get to MY house. And international shipping? Good luck.
It can't be the new and improved system can't handle it. The old one is still in place buried and works fine still. But if you raise a question on dumbing down things to uselessness. Or altering things because you can. Then get blown off because 'You are old and barely tech-literate'.
Explain why my mother is not allowed to have a simple folder labelled Christmas 2019. Where she put all her photos for that year. And a Windows update will wipe her shortcuts and move the folder somewhere else?

ProfessorDetective wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:49 pm

Nealithi wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:37 am

ProfessorDetective wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:06 pm

hammerofglass wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:10 pm I'm honestly kind of confused by how big a deal people still make about Facebook. It's been a ghost town for a few years now.

It's the main social media network for a lot of the developing world and a lot of barely tech-literate Americans (the older types who learn one way to do things and will NOT budge from it, eg Zoom, Yahoo Mail).

My issue with this comment is there is a mockery attached to learned skills. Keep adapting or some such nonsense. I can get to the programs I want to run with these three clicks. Now they are hidden behind obscure sounding names and take more steps to get the same results you had the day before. But the 'old' people are to blame. Why has the GUI for mailing been altered? Used to be Name, Company Name, Address. No no now it is a quiz. Give us the postal code. Oh we don't recognize that. Three more times then direct you to a person for what is supposed to be a simple online experience that Used to work. Guess what the new version forced down everyone's throats only accepts five numeric digits. No alphabet and no more than five. Great, but my Home postal code covers five towns and has three streets with the same name and numbers. You need the other four to actually get to MY house. And international shipping? Good luck.
It can't be the new and improved system can't handle it. The old one is still in place buried and works fine still. But if you raise a question on dumbing down things to uselessness. Or altering things because you can. Then get blown off because 'You are old and barely tech-literate'.
Explain why my mother is not allowed to have a simple folder labelled Christmas 2019. Where she put all her photos for that year. And a Windows update will wipe her shortcuts and move the folder somewhere else?

That's not a stubborn unwillingness to keep current, that's Microsoft trying to reinvent the wheel and hobbling the cart... Yet again. Everyone trips when they get the rug yanked out from underneath them.

I was referring to the folks who would balk at a straight, hitchless, upgrade just because it's got a new number next to it name. New/different is bad types. Get a lot of this with pop culture, too.

And as to your grandmother's photos, a USB flash drive may be a good solution. Windows is less likely to bork an external drive. Don't know about that... Shipping(?) program you're using.

hammerofglass wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 11:58 pm Shouldn't people who stick with what they learned way back be the ones who actively refuse to keep files on the desktop? That was something it was beat into our heads was always bad practice in the 90's.

Thebestoftherest wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:58 pm who seriously uses facebook now a days.