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Blindly Building MySpace

"The Simpsons" had it right on when it comes to showing how the younger generation helps old foggies over 30 navigate the Web.
Marge tries to find a little info about a family-oriented topic while Lisa and Bart peer impatiently over her shoulder and bark commands to their slow-surfing mother. She accidentally orders an appliance and gets no info.
Finally she relinquishes the mouse to Homer.
He finds the info with one click.
I've had shockingly similiar experiences with my daughter.

The twentysomething was helping me navigate MySpace on Christmas Eve.
"Click there! No, there!" she said.
I clicked in what appeared to be slow motion to her but was frantic and harried to me.
"OK, scroll over. Down more. More. OK, there. No, don't scroll down anymore. Go back."
Somehow even with a master's degree and years of experience in the professional world, my IQ had plummeted on MySpace.
"Gosh, I had to tell you everything," she said.
Luckily, she likes me because I'm her mom.
So she stuck out the grueling process of shifting my profile from sunflowers to an Andy Warhol daisy design with coding that allows me to do more things.
The change was crucial because I couldn't post an important picture of James Blunt on my page.
First, she had tutored me in RockYou.com, a photo-sharing site. So it's no surprise her patience hard worn a little thin.
But it was all worth it when I successfully posted the pic of Blunty, proof that even a mature woman can learn that newfangled computer stuff.

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