Ok, so I acknowledge that I’ve been around and used computers a lot in the last 10-15 years of my life. So obviously I know a lot more than the average person and especially the average person above the age of 40, just because I’ve used them and been around them so much.

But that doesn’t make it any less annoying when people don’t know how to use computers, or more accurately, don’t CARE to LEARN. A lot of people use computers because they’re either trendy and cool, or because they use one for work, or because they’re forced to. THat’s all fine and good, but people, if you’re going to use, here’s some simple tips that you should engrain into your heads to make my life less stressful.

First, clicking things:

1. Don’t click things multiple times! Especially if you have an older computer, this will most likely cause whatever you clicked on to open 80 times and crash your computer, causing you to say asinine things like “C’mon you stupid computer, gosh it’s so slow!” That’s just ignorance, so get over it.
2. General rules:
   • Icons on a desk top need to be double clicked to open
   • Icons in programs usually only need to be clicked once. If that doesn’t work after 5-10 seconds, then try double clicking.
   • Anything, ANYTHING, in a web browser window only needs to be clicked once. ONLY ONCE. Never ever double click something in a browser window.
   • If you hover the mouse over something, and a little border appears around it that makes it look like a button, then it is a button. Buttons only need to be clicked ONCE.
   • Remember what you used (single or double-click) to open something so you don’t get them mixed up.
3. You can double-click files to open them. This saves time.
4. You can right-click icons and files to see what else you can do to them. (You can also do this with links in web browsers to, for example, open that link in another tab)

There’s probably more but after writing all that, I’m not as frustrated as I was before. Thanks, BLOG.

Tags: annoyances, computers, life, rant