Some People Should Never use Computers

Hava — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:15:42 +0000

Luddites were a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed labour saving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment. Although not entirely correct in it’s current day use, it is accepted by most as a term to describe people who avoid or dislike using computers or electronic equipment.

But what about those who embrace the use of computers but are unable or unwilling to learn? Is there a descriptive term for them? They shall not be named, but they are the ones who are guilty of some or all of the following heinous acts :

Reading emails out load to everyone in the room as if looking for some inspiration on how to deal with them
Believing that they receive more spam than anyone else in the world
Typing website addresses into Google’s search bar instead of their browser’s address bar
Saying things like ‘it won’t let me do this or that’ as if ‘it’ has a personal vendetta against them
Clicking ‘OK’ to the restart prompt alert produced by some programme updates, then wondering why the computer is shutting down
Editing documents attached to emails without saving them to their hard drive and then accusing the computer of ‘losing all my changes’

You know the type.. oh I could go on and on all day… but I won’t. Instead, I would like to ask our readers to suggest a suitable title for this type of person, and we will publish it here, tweet it, facebook it and generally get people using it, translating it, enjoying it, and we will finally have a word to describe people who should never use computers.

Cup of Tea and a Biscuitluddite

Some People Should Never use Computers