Your mom will always love you , and you ’ll always have it away your momma , but now that moms are comfortably geeky , maternal interaction can get weird and frustrating very quickly . How do we manage ? You need a plan — especially with Mother ’s day coming so soon . This is it .
Your mom wants to text you . Your mamma need to take care at your pictures . Your mom wants to involve you for cool new tunes . Your mamma want to bosom you through a information processing system — but that ’s out of the question , mom ! Your mom ’s computer and router and everything between will be caught in a inexorable rush of defective configuration and misapprehension . But she ’s your mama . We know you ’re interfering , but some stuff you ca n’t goldbrick . Be patient and be kind to her . Here ’s where you start :
Tech Support
Being force out of your mother ’s vaginal cavity entitles her to a life-time of technical backing , whenever she want it , forever . No elision . Sorry , it ’s just the way it is — and no c - section loophole either , I ’m afraid . She trucked you around for nine month , and now the least you may do is help her reset the router back home . But how ?
Never , ever , ever use the phone . No , never . We all know that fixing a data processor concern is tricky enough when you ’re baby-sit down at the computer . But over the telephone ? Forget about it . The process of a mom fathoming what ’s happening on her cover , putting that into non - mom term , and you then giving her mom - edible instructions in getting even is just too much . Think of the scene in which Samuel L. Jackson is trying to organize Laura Dern to flip the great power back on in Jurassic Park , only there are a hundred more raptorial bird , Laura Dern still ca n’t touch type , and Jurassic Park is a five year old Dell .
You need to give mom some visuals . If you ca n’t prepare her router / headphone / laptop / router again in individual , you should swap screenshots . Ask her to e-mail you photograph of what ’s bechance on her screen , then footnote the fixes with a programlike Skitchand send them back to her . Kaboom — no need to sample explain what an IP savoir-faire is to your mother , which would have resulted in her frustrated and you claw your hair out and weeping blood .
Oh , this is never easy . Pulling back your burqa of privateness to reveal a whole Facebook Timeline ’s Charles Frederick Worth of crass status update and intoxicated faces to the cleaning woman who pass about two decades endeavor to teach you better .
But this actually is n’t as tricky as it attend ! First , accept your mom ’s champion request , because it ’s truly benign . She just wants to find closer to you , and knows Facebook is her best dead reckoning . Give it to her . Why ?
You wo n’t have to be nagged about sending video . They ’re all on Facebook !
You wo n’t be asked “ what ever come about to so - and - so from middle school ? ” as much , because she can just haunt them on your paries .
You wo n’t get as many adorably annoying range of mountains emails and redundant links , because they can just go to the URL landfill of your rampart .
Etc . It ’s a timesaver . Your profile stand in for the real you . A buffer against smothering .
And if there ’s anything you do n’t want female parent to see , just make her a Facebook acquaintanceand parent - proof your visibility . Just because you love someone does n’t stand for you ca n’t cyberspace blacklist them .
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-pretend-to-be-someones-friend-on-facebook-5905800
Q: What computer should I get, sweetie?
A : Get your ma an iPad if you could afford it , or a Kindle Fire if you ca n’t . They ’re the simplest and most elegantly designed pill you’re able to get . That ’s it . Unless she ’s a vivid interior decorator , your mom does n’t need a laptop .
Q: What phone should I get, honey? What about a camera?
A : The Lumia 900 or HTC Titan II is the phone for your mum . The elephantine screens are perfect for legibility , looking at motion picture of you , and taking new one of her own . And the photographic camera are both damn good , meaning snapping and sharing are amalgamate , have in mind less troubleshooting over the phone for you . Above all , Windows Phone is dead dewy-eyed and wondrous easy on the eyes — and the lack of apps wo n’t matter as much to a basic user .
Sorry, mom. Voicemail is dead.
As smart as your mammy is , she belike has n’t picked up on the fact that voicemail is obsolete , barring bill aggregation and longsighted , complicated bad news . She ’ll give you voicemails you ’re loathe to take heed to , and peradventure you never will . This hurt her feelings , because she ’s waiting for a voicemail back , which is about as potential as a letter of the alphabet sent via pneumatic subway system .
Have a blunt conversation . mamma , voicemails are gone . I know you like the sound of my vocalism — I miss yours too ! But it ’s just not really something anyone does anymore .
As a compromise : Text her a lot . Text her until you break her of her twentieth hundred part message substance abuse , and you ’ll give up her wasted time and yourself filial guilt . Show your ma that texting can maybe even be more personal than a voice mail . ship her pictures of what you ’re doing , what you ’re find out , and where you are . Take fiddling videos now and then . mammy bonk that . You ’re doing both of you a favor .
But above all …
Call your mother
No excuses . It does n’t have to be often . It does n’t have to be foresighted . But just call your goddamned mom . There ’s no techie panacea to get you out of this one , ever . Just . Call . Your . mum . Sometimes .
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