Comments on: Technology and Emotional Maturity

By: Tracee Sioux

Tracee Sioux — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:42:37 +0000

You’re welcome to comment Alan.

One question – how does it feel to rule the world?

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:17:41 +0000

Well, I’m a man and a geek so I’m not sure what I’m doing commenting here. But I have to tell you that I completely agree. There is plenty of frustration to go around even for geeks! We fall victim to programs and systems that we aren’t familiar with, although at a higher level than novices. I offer a few explanations for the state we’re in on this post:

http://www.socialdynamx.net/2005/03/24#a299

Though it talks about consumer devices the arguments can be made for software.

But I don’t let users completely off the hook:
http://www.socialdynamx.net/2003/09/12#a139

on a post titled:

Computers are hard to use but users need to help

By: that girl

that girl — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:46:37 +0000

I dated a tech freak once and I was the same way Violet.. he was a jerk, but the skills were so useful!

By: Violet

Violet — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:14:44 +0000

Which is why I rarely try to “learn” from my geeky husband. I’m just like, “You just do it for me” when he tries to explain.

By: Tracee Sioux

Tracee Sioux — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:04:19 +0000

yeah the help is written by Geeks for other Geeks who have all their background knowledge.

I need help files that go like this:

See that thingy in the right side bar below the first ad? That’s called the blah blah blah, click it and then enter your email address – we’ll take everything from there.

By: Tracee Sioux

Tracee Sioux — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:02:01 +0000

I was just thinking, while on my walk, that if I had to do it over again the best guy to hook up with and marry would be a computer geek.

By: Violet

Violet — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:50:20 +0000

I think we all have this frustration. I just live with my own personal IT guy which makes it a little easier.

By: Susanna

Susanna — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:02:31 +0000

Oops, that should say, “instructions aren’t just written for geeks…”

By: Susanna

Susanna — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:01:14 +0000

I’ve done plenty of cursing of technology this week myself. I ought to be competent at all this web stuff. Heck, it’s my job. And yet, moving my blog to a new domain took hours of frustration, cursing, and nearly accidentally destroying the whole thing. And if you go there now, you will see that it’s still kind of screwed up, but I don’t care, ’cause at least it’s *there*.

Instructions aren’t just not written for geeks, they’re written by people who know what they’re doing who don’t bother to proofread and assume everyone has the same knowledge they do.

Maybe I need to write my own how-to for moving a blog to a new domain.

By: that girl

that girl — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:42:23 +0000

You’re not alone., I HATE that stuff. It’s not my favorite part of the brain, and so I try to get by without properly mastering it..then I get super frustrated trying to do something that I KNOW I’ve done before and I KNOW would be simple if I had just taken the time to learn it properly before..

I HATE that stuff.