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(Government Technology)   Study finds 92 percent of people online use email and search. Soooo, WTF are the other 8 percent doing?   (govtech.com) divider line 132
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2011-08-10 12:15:33 PM
I'd guess using telnet and gopher?
 
2011-08-10 12:17:17 PM
My uncle bought my 87 year old grandmother a laptop.

I've tried teaching her to use it 5 or 6 times now.

It's a waste of time at this point.
 
2011-08-10 12:21:34 PM
porn
 
2011-08-10 12:27:06 PM
more porn
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2011-08-10 12:28:22 PM
WTF are the other 8 percent doing?

Real work
 
2011-08-10 12:28:50 PM
a veritable shiat-ton of porn
 
2011-08-10 12:29:00 PM
ya'll don't use search to find porn?
 
2011-08-10 12:29:19 PM
Filing for unemployment benefits.
 
2011-08-10 12:29:31 PM
archie and ftp?
 
2011-08-10 12:30:04 PM
Facebook?
 
2011-08-10 12:30:24 PM
veronica? wais?
 
2011-08-10 12:30:44 PM
jerkin it to subbys mom and sending mean tweets to the real house lizards of new york city is what we like to do over here.
 
2011-08-10 12:30:59 PM
We're on FARK of course.
 
2011-08-10 12:31:01 PM
Sticky Hands: ya'll don't use search to find porn?

I'm so good at internet porn I don't need to search. I just type a URL and it takes me to something I like.

/8%er
 
2011-08-10 12:31:37 PM
alt.nerd.obsessive

need know star RM pic
 
2011-08-10 12:31:40 PM
lennavan: porn

ArkAngel: more porn

rcantley: a veritable shiat-ton of porn

Sticky Hands: ya'll don't use search to find porn?

I think that sums up what basically everyone is doing on-line
 
2011-08-10 12:32:16 PM
xnxx.com set homepage,no need to search.
 
2011-08-10 12:32:22 PM
www.tampabay.com
Asking their mom?
 
2011-08-10 12:32:45 PM
Sticky Hands: ya'll don't use search to find porn?

Some "people" that I know don't use search engines. They just go to a tube site such as X Hamster or Tube Galore and browse the categories. Much less risky that way.
 
2011-08-10 12:32:51 PM
only 8% are porning?
 
2011-08-10 12:33:02 PM
I just got some lunch, and the (older) woman seated nearby had an iPhone, yet I could clearly tell she called directory assistance to give her the phone number for a local restaurant.
 
2011-08-10 12:33:11 PM
Ever use search and email offline only. Its overrated.
 
2011-08-10 12:33:28 PM
lennavan: porn

Aaaand we're done here...
 
2011-08-10 12:34:04 PM
Electric_Banana: Sticky Hands: ya'll don't use search to find porn?

Some "people" that I know don't use search engines. They just go to a tube site such as X Hamster or Tube Galore and browse the categories. Much less risky that way.


Less risky? Of stumbling into some scary ass shiat?
 
2011-08-10 12:34:15 PM
Bunnyhat: My uncle bought my 87 year old grandmother a laptop.

I've tried teaching her to use it 5 or 6 times now.

It's a waste of time at this point.


My grandmother insisted she wanted computer around that age. She got one, but I don't think she ever did anything more than look at it. She still doesn't really understand email and how we can send pictures and stuff.
I also watched a friend try to teach his grandmother to use a computer. She couldn't understand how to double-click - she would click once...and then twice.
 
2011-08-10 12:34:22 PM
Bunnyhat: My uncle bought my 87 year old grandmother a laptop.

I've tried teaching her to use it 5 or 6 times now.

It's a waste of time at this point.


What'll really chap your ass is grandma believing age has everything to do with the ability to fix her computer. I have 15 year of IT employment under my belt, grandma wont let me near it. My 50 year old uncle, a construction worker, gets the call instead. Nothing ever gets fixed, she keeps calling him, I give up.

Of course this is coming from the woman that believed my Nintendo was going to break her TV.
 
2011-08-10 12:34:26 PM
planking?

Let us find and smite them.
 
2011-08-10 12:34:41 PM
They're using email XOR search, duh.
 
2011-08-10 12:34:44 PM
posting spider pictures in fark threads.
 
2011-08-10 12:34:46 PM
Actually, that 8% are busy trying to close an unending series of pop-up windows every time their unpatched WIN XP computer boots up.
 
2011-08-10 12:35:32 PM
AOL and Prodigy?
 
2011-08-10 12:35:41 PM
/b/
 
2011-08-10 12:35:48 PM
THIS (new window)
 
2011-08-10 12:36:08 PM
aevert: Sticky Hands: ya'll don't use search to find porn?

I'm so good at internet porn I don't need to search. I just type a URL and it takes me to something I like.

/8%er


One of the ways I used to joke around on internet forums was making up porn sounding URLs like www.yourmomsucksballs.com. Turned out a lot of them were real and it got me banninated many a times. =-X

/I checked that one before clicking add comment
 
2011-08-10 12:36:20 PM
lennavan: porn

No, that doesn't explain it. You have to search for "three way teen elderly anal fisting HD video."
 
2011-08-10 12:38:32 PM
The other 8% are polling.

I said POLLing, not PORNing.
 
2011-08-10 12:38:47 PM
Err, you know, the interesting part of doing studies is to have found out what percentage of people do stuff and if not, why. Maybe they should have asked the other 8% of participants.
 
2011-08-10 12:39:45 PM
CitizenTed: Actually, that 8% are busy trying to close an unending series of pop-up windows every time their unpatched WIN XP computer boots up.

Sounds like they need to visit cleanmypc.com. I used cleanmypc and now my computer is running faster than ever! No more popups or spyware! Now, I can browse aol.com - you know, the internet - safely and quickly.
 
2011-08-10 12:40:24 PM
They're screaming at farking noobs, while they pwn your face!
 
2011-08-10 12:42:52 PM
I happen to be vacuuming databases, starting and stopping data streams, and FARKing.

Mostly FARK.

I hate Postgresql.
 
2011-08-10 12:43:31 PM
My brother plays Medal of Honor and World of Warcraft, and never, ever does anything else on the internet. If we want to email him something we have to send it to his wife.
 
2011-08-10 12:43:40 PM
I know a guy who only uses facebook and youtube.
 
2011-08-10 12:44:33 PM
Wangiss: They're using email XOR search, duh.

I use search in email. Your boolean logic is invalid.
 
2011-08-10 12:44:56 PM
CitizenTed: Actually, that 8% are busy trying to close an unending series of pop-up windows every time their unpatched WIN XP computer boots up.

Win XP? I wish. My grandfather was still using Windows ME a year ago. I tried to fix a problem involving patching his virus scanner, downloading patches and documentation over a dial-up connection. I finally just told him to get a new computer. Seriously.
 
2011-08-10 12:46:15 PM
battling Skynet, preventing Judgement Day.
 
2011-08-10 12:46:20 PM
Marge N. Overah?
 
2011-08-10 12:48:12 PM
The same things, they just don't have any understanding of what they're doing.
 
2011-08-10 12:48:35 PM
Is it too hard to imagine Farkers spending 8 percent of their time drinking? That's what they're doing.
 
2011-08-10 12:50:00 PM
Linoleum_Blownapart: My brother plays Medal of Honor and World of Warcraft, and never, ever does anything else on the internet. If we want to email him something we have to send it to his wife.

I call bullshiat...
 
2011-08-10 12:50:17 PM
Scerpes: Less risky? Of stumbling into some scary ass shiat?

I realized yesterday that I have not seen any transsexual midget porn.

Link anyone?
 
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