NOTE FROM KIM:

Microsoft has announced a new advertising campaign
targeting older workers who are finding that the
effects of aging are making using a computer “awkward.”

The Top 8 Signs You’re Too
Old to Use a Computer (Part I)

8> You keep looking for the crank to get it started.

7> The good news: You just found and downloaded the Paris Hilton video. The bad news: You don’t remember what to do now.

6> When you need technical help you ask your son, who asks his son, who asks his son, who asks his son, who asks his son.

5> You keep getting flirtatious e-mail from someone named AnnaNicole48DD.

4> You prefer to view your porn the old fashioned way: by looking at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

3> “And this thing with all the letters and numbers must be the abacus?”

2> Let’s just say that something is hanging down, completely covering the keyboard.

and the Number 1 Sign You’re Too Old to Use a Computer…

1> You can’t shake the feeling that the Kaiser is monitoring your e-mail.

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Credits:

Selected from 48 submissions from 17 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Bill Livingston, Decatur, AL — 1
Gideon Griebenow, Potchefstroom, South Africa — 2
Kobus Myburgh, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa — 3
Alan Bland, Boulder, CO — 4
Brandon Hunt, Braintree, MA — 5, Topic
Doug Crews, San Diego, CA — 6
Rabbi Crut, Bowling Green, OH — 7
RW Lipp, Lenexa, KS — 8
Kim Moser, New York, NY — Moderator