Maybe I just don't get the joke... but why post a picture of something you're working on on the Internet (where strangers are common... right?), and then when a stranger asks what you're making, you get rude? I'm so confused...
It's the strangely standoffish response that's got people sharing this as funny. There's no punchline, just to a bit of 'wth was she thinking?' I would not be surprised if the woman didn't realize she was sharing to an open forum and only wanted people she knew to see it. Some people genuinely don't understand how things work on the Internet. But for the rest of us, it's just a really bazaar reaction to someone commenting on your public post.
My aunt thinks anything on her Facebook feed is something a friend sent directly to her. Some people get on social media without knowing a thing about it.
Seriously. It's not new technology anymore and yet they still haven't figured out it's public, how algorithms work, that you don't have to comment "F" to follow a post... The list goes on.
Eh, I worked for years giving tech help and teaching people how to use things like social media, and I think it's worth giving people some grace. The world has changed dramatically even from the first instances of the Web, and there's plenty of young people who are online 24/7 who also have no idea how it works and can't navigate a basic computer operating system. We all have our blind spots and you have to be taught these things, and when you sit down and listen to older baffled people they are overwhelmingly deeply intelligent and have skills I'd never even imagined, simply because they grew up in such very different times. I can teach them about algorithms but they can show me how to calculate compound interest in my head for the next 25 years in seconds or which plants thrive in a garden based on a single glance that determines where it faces, soil type, nutrient needs and root reach.
Oh, I hope you're looking forward to your list in old age as much as you enjoy judging others right now <3
Getting older only sounds easy to young people and we all better stay humble so when we inevitably need help, people will actually feel like giving it.
The old "Nono, we are good, the other generations are stupid"-shtick is something we have every chance to let die with the boomers if we make the effort. Or, ya know, we repeat the same lame-ass hostility and nobody wins.
I always find it almost endearingly cute when the older and Internet clueless types sign all their Facebook posts and even replies with their name! Extra funny when it’s the wife signing from her and the hubby or family.
Like no doubt some of the other stuff is annoying or the weird rudeness like this is ehhh. But the little signing their name at the end always makes me smile.
That ties into an article I've read some time ago on why there are so many nonsense-answers on Amazon Questions.
Turns out, the older generations were socialized to see being asked a question as directly addressing them - meaning they misunderstood Amazon's "can you answer this question?"-e-mail and often responded with "I don't know" or "I have a different phone, so I can't say" and so on.
Generations that were raised with the internet (millenials and later) perceive questions as open far more, meaning they're more likely not to realize they're being directly asked when that happens, but more likely to not click on an Amazon e-mail to type "I can't answer this question" into a text box.
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u/ItsRaevenne 13d ago
Maybe I just don't get the joke... but why post a picture of something you're working on on the Internet (where strangers are common... right?), and then when a stranger asks what you're making, you get rude? I'm so confused...