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I am everything you hate about people on the internet. I am here to help.

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Blacklight · 12/02/2015 21:26

I am male, mid 20's and grew up with this technology.
Wondering what something means?
Wondering how to do something?
Wondering how your kids did something?
Wondering if you should let your kids do something?

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GiddyOnZackHunt · 15/02/2015 00:19

Oh hang on. Is Blacklight actually Kim Il Cheesy Ankles himself? Is he busy trying to figure out how to nuke MNHQ?
Whoops we may have wrought destruction upon an island east of Japan through our over sensitivity.

Oh well.

RessyMedHair · 15/02/2015 00:21

Yeh, that's funny. surely you can see how it's funny blacklight

do you think that your social and emotional intelligence hold you back on occasion? You should do a few on line quizzes and see if you learn anything. Perhaps you might want to stop coding for ten minutes and work on other skills.

smotheroffive · 15/02/2015 00:26

did you get that everyone?

OK Wheres that excellent pic, of man about to speak

preachy preachy logically (so perhaps none of us have been doing this thread logically?) - that'd be our periods muzzing up our silly little brains not being able to think rationally or logically

where the people you hate the most is YOU which is all over-sensitive and inocuous anyway apparently.

and of course, there's the marketing yourself as someone who knows better than their own parents what they should let their DC do? and you're 25?

but so far, shown no conscience about the way you've spoken, taken no responsibility for the reaction to that. Decided to go silent towards people's comments, and then used your dead mother as a sympathy vote.

mmmm #flying fuck, again

Lweji · 15/02/2015 00:28

Oh to be so young and so full of certainty.

Opopanax · 15/02/2015 00:32

I find it quite horrifying, frankly, that someone in their mid-twenties could be crass enough to assume maleness was a qualification for being good at the internet. Jesus. Six year olds of any gender can work the internet capably enough if you let them. Mine is a world expert in funny cat videos. And she's a girl!

Lweji · 15/02/2015 00:35

My DS started googling the word pocoyo since he was 3.

WereJamming · 15/02/2015 00:35

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EBearhug · 15/02/2015 00:39

OK, so lets look at this logically, where exactly have I said ANYTHING condescending about women? Could someone please show me?

I did actually laugh out loud at this, so thanks for that, Blacklight. I hope you are not quite so lacking in self-awareness in your daily life.

perhaps none of us have been doing this thread logically?
I can think logically. This is because I don't have enough female hormones. I know this because a male colleague told me so, so it must be a true fact.

Also my period (which I still have every month, despite not having enough female hormones), was last week, so I have failed to sync up with you all. Sorry for letting the side down.

smotheroffive · 15/02/2015 00:39

Opopanax he's showing off in his world

Opopanax · 15/02/2015 00:42

Good point, Jamming. If only someone who's been using the internet for less time than me with a penis was here to help! Because obv you need a penis to operate any kind of computer. Oh, wait. No. You only need a brain. OP's brain seems a little less capable than most.

smotheroffive · 15/02/2015 00:43

Ebear bloody technology huh! sync fail

and yes, says it all doesn't when the whole that ensued made it all clear to see none so blind

RessyMedHair · 15/02/2015 00:43

I know, it's a little bit depressing when you hope that each generation will be less sexist than the last but clearly that's not automatic. Along comes blacklight with an assumption that with 25 tender years under his belt he can help us by virtue of being ............. male, and young!

Lweji · 15/02/2015 00:44

I have a male brain.
I do science and I even read maps and think in 3D space better than most males.

Logically, I wouldn't dream of going to dadsnet and post saying that I am female and would they like to ask anything about child rearing.

Opopanax · 15/02/2015 00:45

Actually, you probably don't need that much of a brain. DD's is entirely taken up with funny cat videos and she seems to be doing OK.

EBearhug · 15/02/2015 00:45

Opopanax, I'm not so sure a brain is a necessity. For evidence, please see the interwebz.

RessyMedHair · 15/02/2015 00:47

I think I've got an androgynous brain. I can read maps but I can also learn languages and I've got emotional intelligence. I got an A in maths at school but it all went in to my short term memory as maths doesn't really set me alight. And that's allowed OP.

I've no interest in cracking whatever coded message Blacklight put in here as a test.

I can do everything I want to do with 'computers'.

smotheroffive · 15/02/2015 00:47

and where was this dinosaur hatched that has managed thus far to elude the female of the species so well for 25 years as not to know anything about them furtling with things like computers that make you go blind

darkside29 · 15/02/2015 00:51

You assume people reading your thread 'hate' something about people on the internet. Why?

You speak as if being young and male is a qualification, or 'growing up with this technology' is something remarkable. You and countless others did that - so what?

Clue: if you really want to help, first look for people who are asking for help. Plenty of forums around with people asking questions. Find some and make yourself useful there.

No one will care if you're young, old, male, female, if you solve their problem for them.

EBearhug · 15/02/2015 00:52

I think reading maps and learning languages are a good combination. Both make travel a bit easier.

Actually, most people I know can read maps, and I think it's just a load of rubbish about women can't do it. (I wrote a story at school when I was about 7, about a magic map. I found it a few years ago; I am still proud of having spelled Ordnance Survey correctly at that age, a many adults still can't do that.)

Today's top tip - don't take compass bearings on "that sheep over there." They're not marked on the map, and they move.

smotheroffive · 15/02/2015 00:55

yes Darkside and there's always good old advertising too, once you've mastered the art of doing it without putting off all your potential customers.

WereJamming · 15/02/2015 01:01

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smotheroffive · 15/02/2015 01:01

i don't think we care whether he's 25 or male, or think he knows better. Its what he cares that he advertised, and lack of recognition of a comment that at 25 and being male, he knows better. I hope he's found out he doesn't?

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Blacklight · 15/02/2015 01:17

Well if we're trying to show off, how about we all do it. I left school with 9 Cs and 4 Ds at GCSE. How is comparing constructive? And I still don't see the link to sexism, besides, isn't what you are bullying me about ageism?

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BIWI · 15/02/2015 01:21

OK.

I am everything you hate about people on the internet. I am here to help. (598 Posts)

How lovely! So. Your first lesson. You are assuming that we, on Mumsnet, hate people on the internet. Why would that be? Why would you assume that? You know nothing about us here. For example, I am a 55 year old woman, who has been on the internet for the last 20 years. I do email, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram as well as blogging and various other forums.

^Add message | Report | Message poster Blacklight Thu 12-Feb-15 21:26:38
I am male, mid 20's and grew up with this technology.^

Well how lovely! You're not much older than my oldest son. Whether or not you grew up with this technology or whether or not like me I learnt about it as it was developing makes no odds.

Wondering what something means?

Not especially. I've always found that I have some kind of innate ability - let's call it intelligence - to work these things out along the way.

Wondering how to do something?

See above. You see, I'm actually quite clever. Once a technology is available to me, I sort of experiment with it. I learn how to use it. I don't really need to be shown or told much. It's amazing how much you can learn by just using it. Spreadsheets? Yay! Makes all my calculator stuff redundant.

Wondering how your kids did something?

No. Aged 55, I haven't had to ask my kids to show me how to do anything. Actually, I'm the one whose been showing them how to do stuff. I know! Remarkable, isn't it?!

Wondering if you should let your kids do something?

Well, obviously. We should always put stuff in place to make sure our children are safe on the internet. But - you know - as well as me telling them this, their teachers and their schools are pretty hot on this too.

So, Blacklight, I actually have no need of you and your misplaced attempt to teach me how to use the internet.

And, if you haven't already grasped it, your assumption that you could swan on to Mumsnet and teach us how to use the internet is totally unnecessary and, thus, patronising. You have assume that because you are

a) young
b) male

that we will all know less than you and will be in need of teaching.

You may very well be some kind of troll, here to create trouble. I shall for the moment assume that you have some kind of genuine interest in educating all of us on Mumsnet.

YOU ARE A VERY STUPID YOUNG MAN IF THIS IS WHAT YOU THINK WE ARE ON MUMSNET.

I will stop shouting.

But we are, for the very most part, intelligent and well qualified women, who are very well experienced with the ways of computers and the internet. We really, really don't need a shallow, callow youth like you who has the temerity to think that we are all stupid.

Is that clear enough for you?

You have been made an example of, across the internet, yet still you persist in wondering why. Perhaps this has made it clear?

If it really hasn't, then WHY DON'T YOU ASK YOUR MOTHER?

WereJamming · 15/02/2015 01:27

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