a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by dingus
dingus  ·  3116 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How "normal" people use the internet, and how can we fix that behavior?

Computer hygene is something that will always be a problem, because the people who design the technologies do so in a way that purposely hides the way it works. Arguably this is what has made computers so useful for us. We no longer have to know how a computer works to use it, but it comes with a downside: without a good frame of reference to how they work, many people assume that computers are magic devices that do whatever you want them to do. So, you get people clogging email servers with "reply to all" and using virus-ridden pages, and they think that it will just work because the entire computer industry has it down that their products "just work".