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9/25/11 07:48 amI have got to figure out a way to get my mother more netsavvy.
She's perfectly fine when it comes to other media, television, newspapers. Don't believe everything you read/hear/question everything.
But the second somebody she barely knows posts something in all caps on their profile, she's coming to me going "THEY'RE GOING TO START CHARGING ME FOR FACEBOOK, TELL THEM I DON'T WANT THAT, HOW DO I STOP IT? THEY DON'T HAVE MY CREDIT CARD, DO THEY?"
Sigh.
She also got a notice from "Paypal" saying "WE'RE CHANGING YOUR ACCOUNT, PLEASE RESPOND IMMEDIATELY." It was of course a phishing scam, but she was all too content to ask me to go in and enter her info so she wouldn't lose access to her Paypal. I had to explain to her that it wasn't actually Paypal, and she says, no lie: "But the logo's right there at the top of the email!"
I'm going to take away her laptop until she understands that wizards aren't doing it.
She's perfectly fine when it comes to other media, television, newspapers. Don't believe everything you read/hear/question everything.
But the second somebody she barely knows posts something in all caps on their profile, she's coming to me going "THEY'RE GOING TO START CHARGING ME FOR FACEBOOK, TELL THEM I DON'T WANT THAT, HOW DO I STOP IT? THEY DON'T HAVE MY CREDIT CARD, DO THEY?"
Sigh.
She also got a notice from "Paypal" saying "WE'RE CHANGING YOUR ACCOUNT, PLEASE RESPOND IMMEDIATELY." It was of course a phishing scam, but she was all too content to ask me to go in and enter her info so she wouldn't lose access to her Paypal. I had to explain to her that it wasn't actually Paypal, and she says, no lie: "But the logo's right there at the top of the email!"
I'm going to take away her laptop until she understands that wizards aren't doing it.