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ruffhandu:
I remember once when my elder brother claimed there wasn't enough salt in the soup we all ateate.
Without consulting any of the stakeholders, he added extra salt in the soup.

bigfrancis21:
I watched Nneka the pretty serpent as a child and the movie really scared the hell out of me, especially the part 2 where Nneka did a lot of sudden appearances and disappearances. I watched the movie recently and even as an adult I still shuddered each time Nneka displayed her witch prowess.

bigfrancis21:
Another hilarious comment by someone pulled out too.

Nigerian films scare me even in the daytime. There was a film Liz Benson was in where a group of boys dug up her grave and stole her jewelry. She came back to haunt them. That wasn’t the scary bit. What was scary was the powder she packed onto her face to show that she was a ghost. I could not sleep for days! Nigerian scary films made me think at a time that a witch was going to pop out of nowhere.

hydeka: very hillarious . Mods,Mynd44, take this to frontpage.

Augustbreak: Which kain Man go free come do that kain Job sef. Not in naija.

laivwire: Another one, I used one crazy anti malarial drug like that without eating. it was a nightmare. I just kept seeing scary things that vanished as soon as I tried to fight them. Terrible mehn

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vikel2104: There is an apparent discrepancy between older generations and younger generations when it comes to the use of new technology. Older people tend to be less proficient in their use of technology. It is usually difficult to teach the older people new manual tasks, such as operating DVD recorders , computers or iPods.

I'll use my older folks as examples. By older folks I mean parents, uncles/aunties and grandparents.

Between parents, my mum is way ahead of my dad in terms of using new technology. My dad who is in his late fifties does not know much about computers and he doesn't care to know! He's a civil servant but his job doesn't require the use of computers so I guess that even made him close his mind to learning it.

My mum on the other hand, has a laptop which she uses and even browses for information on the internet using her modem. She recently joined Facebook. She has a smart phone unlike my dad who prefers his good old Nokia torch! My mum isn't perfect in using these devices though. She sometimes forgets some functions and where to locate some things on her laptop and when a virus causes her to lose some files on her computer, she simply blames it on the last person who touched the computer even if all the person did was to press the 'on' button. I have tried to explain to her severally that viruses don't fly into people's computers just like that.
Back to my dad. When he buys a new appliance, he will insist on reading the manual to get all the functions instead of simply looking at the appliance and applying the knowledge of how similar appliances work to get the machine running.

As for my uncles, they are pretty good with new technology but we the younger generation are still better.

My grandmother, though in her eighties, knows how to use her phone. At least she can save and locate contacts on her phone. Boy, she can make calls! But that's all she knows. If you go on to explain other ‘complex’ functions to her, you will just be wasting your time.

Now over to you.

How are your older folks responding to new technology? How good are they with these new devices?

irejahmaigmail: what is the meaning of op and mod
dont gerrit

linked: op means operator and
mod means moderation..... my guess anyway

barika2011: so don't tell us people still go to those places wen u go with extra caution...