Annoying things members do

[KayleePond]

Regarding dealing with people who are not tech savvy though, I do feel like if they're on MFC we can assume that they are at least AWARE of the internet and it is incredibly simple to Google your issue. I feel like especially those with a lack in knowledge should be extra aware of the awesome option to simply search for an answer. I get so annoyed when people decide to come to me for help with these things instead of simply searching for themselves! I understand if it's something specific to me but if it's a more general issue I think it is just downright rude to interrupt my show, to be honest.

When I was learning French, they taught us right away how to say "Comment dit-on..." which pretty much means "How do you say..." so even if we totally didn't know a word, we could still use French to learn it and wouldn't have to "give up" and turn to speaking English to ask our question.

Comment dit-on "lobotomy" en francais?

I feel like learning how to use the computer can be just like learning a new language and if someone doesn't know about computers or is uncomfortable or shaky with them they should be shown right away how to ask the questions that they might have. Like they can get SO far with Google and I feel that pretty much everyone knows by now that they can type in a question there and get some answers, you know? I guess I just feel like there's no excuse for people using us as tech support unless our specific product is causing the problem.

Though I suppose we ARE dealing with the sort of people who can't get the password to work because they also copy/pasted the word "Password:" so...

 

[JerryBoBerry]

I think for most people though there is a big generation gap. When I was at school we did IT and schools had plenty of computers. It was compulsory in most schools. Anyone in their early 20s should be pretty decent at working computers. People who are 40+ less so, obviously there are many people who are very good with computers who are that age or older, but I'm not entirely sure on this, but I don't think computers started being used/taught in classrooms until the 80s/90s, so most people born around then chances are will have grown up around them, and those born before probably used them more either out of interest or being made to use them for work.

It's interesting to think about what the generation being born today will be like. They've been raised with iphones, incredible graphics, modern computers and all sorts of technology that makes the stuff I was brought up around look medieval!

I use to think that today's kids (college age now) would be so much better at using computers because they grew up immersed in the technology, I was born in 70. But going back to college has really changed my mind on the subject.

This is a college that does not even accept applications from students who didn't score above the 90th percentile on the ACT test. Yet I've lost track of how many times I've encountered my 18 to 22 year old class mates who just do not have a freaking clue about computer stuff. I'm going to an ENGINEERING SCHOOL and I have yet to find one who knows how to use excel in detail, and almost all have to be taught how to add a column of numbers.

They can use the basic features of dropbox, but don't know about the sync software to use it that way on their home computers. The school gives us a gmail and an office 365 account that comes with 30GB and 25GB respectively of free cloud storage for as long as we're students. I have to constantly show students not only how to access Google Drive but how to upload files, share them with other students and even create the files in the first place.

I see students with iPads that don't know how to take notes using them, or have other apps designed for school installed. They don't use them for pdf files of their books. They don't even know how to find the pdf files in the first place. Most of the students I've talked to in the past who were graduating in the petroleum department never even knew there were books or that the Society of Petroleum Engineers ran a bookstore with discounts to students. They've never bothered to even google it evidently.

Basically the list of how ignorant they really are of technology is quite long. They may have grown up in this age but it seems all they've learned is how to facebook, email, text, and play games with all that tech. Actual productive uses of computers they are severely lacking. It's been one of the more shocking realizations I've encountered about the younger generation, it's made me rethink just how tech savvy I was presuming them to be as a whole.

Yes, i'm speaking in general terms, there are of course exceptions. Although I personally haven't met ONE other student at this college who comes close to using computers like I do.

 

[IsabellaSnow]

I think it is definitely true that some people my age aren't that great with computers, but then it's almost a given that most people my age will be able to manoeuvre around a computer quite happily and have at least semi decent typing skills. They probably won't be able to go much further than that. In schools you get taught the basic programmes, you don't tend to get taught anything more than that.

It does amaze me with some people just how slow they are at typing even when they spend ages on things like facebook and instant chat. They look shocked when they see how fast I type, but I just don't get it, they probably text super quickly, why haven't they picked up typing? I actually don't touch type in the way I'm supposed to, I can do it and used to do it, but I have unconsciously at some point just used my index fingers, but I type so fast and efficiently I don't really see any reason to change it.

Some people understand computers better than others. I think for those who aren't good with computers who are born in this generation if they were born in an earlier generation they probably would have avoided computers full stop.

Honestly back to the topic, I don't mind if someone doesn't understand technology. That's ok. What bothers me is when people are so certain they won't get it that they panic before even looking at the situation. It's pathetic behaviour. Most of the people who do this do understand technology, they're just being idiots and refusing to take in the information that's in front of them or finding their own information. They want their hand held and a step by step through everything.

 

[Sevrin]

Some people learn as much as they need to in order to complete their courses and routine tasks at work.

We have a graphics department, which I has nothing to do with my work, and thanks to my years of having managed a porn collection, I'm usually the one people come to when they have problems opening a file. :lol:

 

[Shaun__]

I get irrationally irritated when people call me Jen. Like it's three letters and you figured out what it is, but you spell it wrong? Whyyy. It's the tiniest thing but I'm like ITS IN MY USERNAME

I know how that feels. I've been called Lilly maybe 12 or 15 times since I've started camming.
Mostly in tweets starting with @LilyMarieMFC, by the way.

I get my name misspelled on ACF, MFC, and real life. And I am not talking about leaving off the underscores either. When I went to buy my house, I had to explain why I had the alias Shawn on my credit report. I was like, "because people refuse to spell my name the way I enter it into forms, even electronic ones". One model always calls me Sean in PMs, and she has to be doing it on purpose.

 

[Sevrin]

I get irrationally irritated when people call me Jen. Like it's three letters and you figured out what it is, but you spell it wrong? Whyyy. It's the tiniest thing but I'm like ITS IN MY USERNAME

I know how that feels. I've been called Lilly maybe 12 or 15 times since I've started camming.
Mostly in tweets starting with @LilyMarieMFC, by the way.

I get my name misspelled on ACF, MFC, and real life. And I am not talking about leaving off the underscores either. When I went to buy my house, I had to explain why I had the alias Shawn on my credit report. I was like, "because people refuse to spell my name the way I enter it into forms, even electronic ones". One model always calls me Sean in PMs, and she has to be doing it on purpose.

Don't forget this one!

 

[Shaun__]

I get irrationally irritated when people call me Jen. Like it's three letters and you figured out what it is, but you spell it wrong? Whyyy. It's the tiniest thing but I'm like ITS IN MY USERNAME

I know how that feels. I've been called Lilly maybe 12 or 15 times since I've started camming.
Mostly in tweets starting with @LilyMarieMFC, by the way.

I get my name misspelled on ACF, MFC, and real life. And I am not talking about leaving off the underscores either. When I went to buy my house, I had to explain why I had the alias Shawn on my credit report. I was like, "because people refuse to spell my name the way I enter it into forms, even electronic ones". One model always calls me Sean in PMs, and she has to be doing it on purpose.

Don't forget this one!

That is the first time I have seen it spelled that way, but some of the women with that name are hot looking apparently.

 

[UncleThursday]

They can use the basic features of dropbox, but don't know about the sync software to use it that way on their home computers. The school gives us a gmail and an office 365 account that comes with 30GB and 25GB respectively of free cloud storage for as long as we're students. I have to constantly show students not only how to access Google Drive but how to upload files, share them with other students and even create the files in the first place.

:angry4: Skydrive and Google Drive syncing are the easiest things to use when installed, too! JUST MOVE THE FILE TO YOUR SKYDRIVE OR GOOGLE DOCS FOLDER AND HAVE AN INTERNET CONNECTION!

FFS, they literally made those programs so a monkey could use them.

Granted, they may not upload the fastest, but it's not like you have to constantly go to a website or anything to sync a file on your own computer to them.*

But, yes, I know people younger than myself (Say early to mid 20's I turn 40 this year) who know less about the web and/or computers than I do. And I'm proficient, but hardly like some computer guru or anything. But, damn, they know how to facebook and instagram and twitter, though.

*Using you/your as a generic term for everyone on the planet.

 

[DudeExtreme]

God all of this so much.

Little things like I'll pm someone a link and they'll be like "I closed the window can you resend?" or "can you send that in an mfc mail?" after I've sent it in pm. Pm records are so easy to find as a member! I just don't get how some of these guys have used the site for ages yet don't understand how it works!

You'll be getting this a LOT more now. MFC made changes a ways back. Links are stripped from our archives. So if they do close the PM window it is lost. It's not just them not knowing where archives are at, it's MFC being annoying.

I still have links in my archives...

Are you meaning they just aren't clickable anymore? Same as MFC mail as far as I can see.

Okay I just double checked on a dropbox link i got a couple nights ago. It still shows. But I have had some in the past i've noticed that disappeared. Not from mfc mail, just out of Private Message archives. I'm wondering if there's certain sites that are being stripped.

I noticed it around the same time many picture links in public chat stopped working too. Some, like postimg.org still will work and show a picture but many sites don't come through.

I've seen some of that myself. In my case, it was half the PM conversation was missing from one night. MFC has it's drawbacks at times.

Before I knew about the Archives section, I brought all the content in one model's room and kept asking her to resend it because I kept closing the PM window by accident. I'm so glad she was patient with me. I learned a lot that night.

 

[LadyLuna]

Per age:

I was born in 1985, which made 1991-92 my first grade school year. We had access to a computer lab. In third grade, there was a computer in the classroom, where we took turns doing a "learn to touch-type" game. After that, there was always one classroom computer, and/or a computer lab.

Nowadays, I think they assume everyone has a computer at home, because I haven't seen this emphasis on actually teaching how to use technology to the students anymore. So I think anyone who went to school in the 90's has a decent grasp of the basics of computers from their school. Anyone else, it will depend on if they had access to a computer at home, and if so, what they did with it.

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As per people just not getting it:

My sister put it this way: those of us with higher than average intelligence, our brains work differently than those who don't have that. (I'm putting 110+ for IQ, and I think just about everyone here fits that description). The people with below average intelligence just don't have the brain structure to understand how this all works. People within 10 points of average intelligence can understand it, but it takes a lot of effort, because again, their brain structure is different, their way of processing information is different.

Then you get the added problem with a lot of Americans born in the 90's (sorry, there are always exceptions, but this is true for a lot of those people) just don't give a damn about anything except their own pleasure, their own comfort, and their own entertainment. When they suddenly have to use their brains to get the comfort, pleasure, and/or entertainment, it's the "end of the world" to them. And God forbid they have to actually follow some sort of standard way of doing things!

What's that one song? "You're from the 70's, but I'm a 90's bitch"? The whole song is about her going crazy and not giving a crap what the world thinks. Wanton destruction of property is supposedly a good thing. I hate that song, but it really does capture the way a lot of people born in the early 90's look at the world. Especially the sorts of people who will actually have the money to get the internet and get on MFC.

 

[EraCute]

Completely different topic, but today I had a REALLY chatty room, like there was loads of convo going and it was super nice, but no one would tip. I only got 350 tokens in like two hours and my camscore went down 40 points. Maybe I was just off my game? I only got 40 viewers tops today, when usually I have 60-80 in my room. Eh. I guess what I'm trying to say is, thanks for being chatty, but tips are nice too xD

 

[JordanBlack]

I think I got used with a lot the past decade camming and most times I fail even to acknowledge stupid things. BUT I ABSOLUTELY HATE when:

- a member speaks about himself in the third person (it applies in real life too). It's even more awkward when it happens during dirty chat: "let Dan spank your arse, etc" to the point I have to ask if he has some alter-ego/ personality called Dan that would rather do naughty things to me instead of himself.
- asks for something, but instead of saying: "Can I see your boobs bb" he goes on to say "Can we see your boobs bb". Seriously if you're going to beg, at least own it and stop talking as you're representing the whole room.
- gets butt-hurt if I don't offer him enough attention and starts moaning in PM, that such and such member gets more attention than he is.
- starts making random chit-chat during a cumshow. "Where are you from bb? How old are you bb?"
- attempts to act as my room know-it all and starts answering questions for me. Or even worse, tries to call out everybody for not tipping (it only happened once, but oh-boy, I went bonkers).
- tells me to fuck my "UTERUS" harder :?

 

[NoelleBright]

I get irrationally irritated when people call me Jen. Like it's three letters and you figured out what it is, but you spell it wrong? Whyyy. It's the tiniest thing but I'm like ITS IN MY USERNAME

Ughhh, this bothers me too. People ALWAYS cut off the last le at the end of my name and spell it Noel.
I mean, I could conceivably be NoelLeBright, BUT THAT'S NOT HOW I SPELL IT.
NoelleBright-NoelLeBright
Learn how capital letters work plz.

 

[LilyMarie]

I mean, I could conceivably be NoelLeBright, BUT THAT'S NOT HOW I SPELL IT.

Also, you would be a boy.

 

[Brad]

I think for most people though there is a big generation gap. When I was at school we did IT and schools had plenty of computers. It was compulsory in most schools. Anyone in their early 20s should be pretty decent at working computers. People who are 40+ less so, obviously there are many people who are very good with computers who are that age or older, but I'm not entirely sure on this, but I don't think computers started being used/taught in classrooms until the 80s/90s, so most people born around then chances are will have grown up around them, and those born before probably used them more either out of interest or being made to use them for work.

It's interesting to think about what the generation being born today will be like. They've been raised with iphones, incredible graphics, modern computers and all sorts of technology that makes the stuff I was brought up around look medieval!

I use to think that today's kids (college age now) would be so much better at using computers because they grew up immersed in the technology, I was born in 70. But going back to college has really changed my mind on the subject.

This is a college that does not even accept applications from students who didn't score above the 90th percentile on the ACT test. Yet I've lost track of how many times I've encountered my 18 to 22 year old class mates who just do not have a freaking clue about computer stuff. I'm going to an ENGINEERING SCHOOL and I have yet to find one who knows how to use excel in detail, and almost all have to be taught how to add a column of numbers.

They can use the basic features of dropbox, but don't know about the sync software to use it that way on their home computers. The school gives us a gmail and an office 365 account that comes with 30GB and 25GB respectively of free cloud storage for as long as we're students. I have to constantly show students not only how to access Google Drive but how to upload files, share them with other students and even create the files in the first place.

I see students with iPads that don't know how to take notes using them, or have other apps designed for school installed. They don't use them for pdf files of their books. They don't even know how to find the pdf files in the first place. Most of the students I've talked to in the past who were graduating in the petroleum department never even knew there were books or that the Society of Petroleum Engineers ran a bookstore with discounts to students. They've never bothered to even google it evidently.

Basically the list of how ignorant they really are of technology is quite long. They may have grown up in this age but it seems all they've learned is how to facebook, email, text, and play games with all that tech. Actual productive uses of computers they are severely lacking. It's been one of the more shocking realizations I've encountered about the younger generation, it's made me rethink just how tech savvy I was presuming them to be as a whole.

Yes, i'm speaking in general terms, there are of course exceptions. Although I personally haven't met ONE other student at this college who comes close to using computers like I do.

I saw much of the same thing when I went back to school in the late 1990s. I was in my 30s and had no computer experience. I spent 3 Saturdays at school and taught myself how to use Windows and the CAD/CAM software for the class I was taking. (CNC programming) We went from over 20 students to 7 because they couldn't keep up with the teacher. I had no troubles once I put in the extra time and passed with an A. I even helped some of the other students. I am now 49 and often have friends/relatives ask me to help them or fix their computers. I am always told that it's because "you know computers" but that's only because I have taken the time to learn something whenever I need to. So in my opinion it's often just a case of laziness. Much easier to ask someone else to do it then learn it for yourself I guess.
:dontknow:

 

[Anarah]

Per age:

I was born in 1985, which made 1991-92 my first grade school year. We had access to a computer lab. In third grade, there was a computer in the classroom, where we took turns doing a "learn to touch-type" game. After that, there was always one classroom computer, and/or a computer lab.

Nowadays, I think they assume everyone has a computer at home, because I haven't seen this emphasis on actually teaching how to use technology to the students anymore. So I think anyone who went to school in the 90's has a decent grasp of the basics of computers from their school. Anyone else, it will depend on if they had access to a computer at home, and if so, what they did with it.

----

As per people just not getting it:

My sister put it this way: those of us with higher than average intelligence, our brains work differently than those who don't have that. (I'm putting 110+ for IQ, and I think just about everyone here fits that description). The people with below average intelligence just don't have the brain structure to understand how this all works. People within 10 points of average intelligence can understand it, but it takes a lot of effort, because again, their brain structure is different, their way of processing information is different.

Then you get the added problem with a lot of Americans born in the 90's (sorry, there are always exceptions, but this is true for a lot of those people) just don't give a damn about anything except their own pleasure, their own comfort, and their own entertainment. When they suddenly have to use their brains to get the comfort, pleasure, and/or entertainment, it's the "end of the world" to them. And God forbid they have to actually follow some sort of standard way of doing things!

What's that one song? "You're from the 70's, but I'm a 90's bitch"? The whole song is about her going crazy and not giving a crap what the world thinks. Wanton destruction of property is supposedly a good thing. I hate that song, but it really does capture the way a lot of people born in the early 90's look at the world. Especially the sorts of people who will actually have the money to get the internet and get on MFC.

I think you may be right about people born in the 90s, but I just have to point out that I don't think that is actually what that song is about, lol. I always interpreted it as a sort of break up song, not a "fuck the world" song.

You're on a different road, I'm in the milky way
You want me down on earth, but I am up in space
You're so damn hard to please, we gotta kill this switch
You're from the 70's, but I'm a 90's bitch

I love it, I love it

I got this feeling on the summer day when you were gone
I crashed my car into the bridge, I watched, I let it burn
I threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairs
I crashed my car into the bridge

I don't care

That's pretty much all the lyrics, it's just repeated. It's a little bit of a nonsense song anyway, but to me it seems much more like "fuck you, I don't give a shit anymore" break up song than a big reflection on the attitude of 90s bitches in general or generally not giving a shit what the world thinks, lol. I took that line as a comparison between them, like the rest of that verse. The meaning seems to be pointing out how they are too different to work together.
I mean, the only thing in it that suggests the "Wanton destruction of property" is the "i crashed my car into the bridge and i dont care", and I mean... she's only destroying her OWN car.. Maybe it's making her feel better(if it was even on purpose, maybe she accidentally crashed it into a bridge and then was like "well fuck it then I don't even care"), who cares, that isn't good or bad for anyone or anything except maybe her own transportation xD Seems like that would actually make things HARDER on her, so if she's only seeking out her own comfort and what not(as you state is typical of 90s born Americans).. surely it would be someone ELSE'S car that she was crashing into a bridge, I would think. She's just being mildly self-destructive after going through a rough time and I can't say that I believe that is something exceptionally belonging to 90s born people.

Edit: On second thought I guess shoving someones shit into a bag and throwing it downstairs could be destructive as well, depending on what the shit is, haha. But from the tone of the song in general I kind of assumed that it was deserved anyway(and again, is this really something restricted to 90s born people? Nobody threw their ex's shit out the window during a bad breakup before this generation? I would find that hard to believe!)

 

[driverxtc]

When people posting gifs and smilies all the freaking time! I know this has been said severall times, but come on don't people have a clue it's annoying!

 

[Jessi]

I can totally relate to the name thing.
Jessie, Jesse, jessy....
uuuugggh Its all over the screen in like 3 different places right in front of you

 

[Greggory]

I can totally relate to the name thing.
Jessie, Jesse, jessy....
uuuugggh Its all over the screen in like 3 different places right in front of you

Not saying it is an excuse, but I would probably be guilty of spelling it Jessie. Not because I don't know it is Jessi, but rather when I type I naturally hit the next common letter. Which is why I would hit an e after i. It is very similar to why I write goggle, google or gogles so often

 

[JerryBoBerry]

This...

I wish they would stop this routine. It's really annoying to everyone, not just models.

 

[KayleePond]

 

[JerryBoBerry]

I like how you made sure that was an EXTRA large picture for added yelling effect. It came through loud and clear! :lol:

 

[lanaluxxe]

1- when members (especially non paying ones) tell me that i'm "their wife/girlfriend". i'm ok with the funny marriage proposals and the "can we date" but you telling me that i would date you is just disrespectful. i literally get that every time i go on cam. or from the members who tip a few tokens and think that they can dictate the way i run my room, or that i have to spend the whole time talking to them
2- when i see members insist upon comparing models to one another even if they see that it annoys them. whats even funnier is that they all think they are the first to say it when in reality most models get compared to another at least once every time they come on
3- when members want to role play in pm when i'm trying to run a room. like, i don't want to hear about your sexual fantasies just because you tipped me 25tks. i have my cell number/email up for sale, if you want to have in depth convos then cough up the tokens for texting or email privileges, don't be rude to me or other members by expecting me to sext with you for free while I'm trying to work.

 

[DuoShi]

I feel for that guy. Kaylee yells at me like that all the time.

 

[MintyFlowers]

I feel for that guy. Kaylee yells at me like that all the time.

Do you yell at her first? ;p

 

[KayleePond]

I feel for that guy. Kaylee yells at me like that all the time.

Do you yell at her first? ;p

We are pretty much just constantly yelling. RAAAWR!!

 

[DuoShi]

I feel for that guy. Kaylee yells at me like that all the time.

Do you yell at her first? ;p

NO WAY! I'M TOTALLY INNOCENT!

 

[hapa74]

I feel for that guy. Kaylee yells at me like that all the time.

Do you yell at her first? ;p

NO WAY! I'M TOTALLY INNOCENT!

Way to derail a topic...watch, now I'll get yelled at too (*psst Kaylee's a yeller)

 

[Kunra9]

The pissing contests that break out.

Seriously, how the hell do guys fight on these websites? I don't fucking get it.
And when these guys get into fights, they don't ever just let it go. They endlessly 1up eachother until they either get banned or the model just logs off.

 

[schlmoe]

Way to derail a topic...watch, now I'll get yelled at too (*psst Kaylee's a yeller)

Are you saying that in 20 or so years, she'll be...

:mrgreen: