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Famliy Help Desk - Good or Bad?

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So... do you guys find it fun or annoying to help your less computer literate relatives (and/or friends) with their cpmputer-related issues?

 

Personally, I find it to be frustrating as hell... It took me 15 minutes for me to get my mum to understand how to open Control Panel in Windows 7... Yeah... The next 30 mins wasn't fun either...

Wit is educated insolence.

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I'm lucky, my mom us pretty Tech literate, she even had a Smartphone long before me.

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I kinda like it if they ask me for help and I'm actualy able to fix it.

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I'd rather they ask me instead of being charged ridiculous prices from companies that tend to do no more than reinstall the OS and claim that it was a viral problem to justify their lack of knowledge. 

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I look at it as a way of learning and gaining more experience while at the same time stress testing my patience levels.

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It's annoying, yet I care about my family, so I want to help them.  They use google all day long, yet when they have a computer problem, suddenly something switches off in their brain, and they don't think of using google to find a fix for their problem.  It's quite baffling.

 

I'm just worried that if something were to ever happen to me, they would be so screwed.  I mean, how could they even choose a computer without my input.  I could just see them buying a laptop with a crappy atom processor and then wondering why it's so slow.

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