the good people at honor reached out to sponsor a piece featuring their new
honor 6X smartphone so they send it over
and I'm sitting there bored at a family function putting the gears to the
phone's dual ends camera Kiren 665
octacore CPU 4 gigs of RAM and 3340 mAh
battery I'm at my in-law's house right and an argument breaks out at the
Scrabble table and meanwhile I'm kind of sitting there
going why don't you just Google it but
it's not all bad thanks to my entire evening of eye rolling face palming and
full body cringing we all get to
experience this fantastic video eight of
the worst ways the older generation makes my head
explode brought to you by the honor 6x
number one my dad seems
completely unable to wrap his head
around the fact that making phone calls
ain't what it used to be he still it is
2017 he still tries to crank call me
crank call me like I'll answer my phone
and he'll start pretending to order a pizza or I'll call him and he'll answer
with some goofy accent trying to convince me that I got the wrong number
dude I know it's you I've had caller ID
on my phone since I was in high school and I know I didn't Mis dial your number
nobody dials numbers anymore number two
I needed to get to my grandma's new place so I even proactively like I'm
ready for this I proactively structure the question like so hey can you give me
your new address Gran and to my dismay
she like every other old person on the
planet proceeds to launch into this
elaborate play byplay of the rote go go
past the Giant Tiger then uh left at the
spoon shaped Rock and you'll see this really friendly young man watering the
grass well well that's Chester the neighbor's sonin-law and he works at the
co-op and okay this is not a quest
grandma I'm not retaining any of this
I'm not listening please For the Love of All that is good tell me the address so
I can open my maps app and key it in
number three thanks to simple interfaces
like honors emotion UI smartphones are getting easier and easier to use but
just because an older person learns to use the internet doesn't mean they
really get how to internet and we've all
suffered the consequences of this one so here's a few etiquette tips if I don't
copy paste your status update you posted
it doesn't mean I'm not your true friend
that funny Chain Letter well if the
memes have e-bombs world watermarks
they're probably a little dated and
auntie thank you so much for the Urgent
cyber security advisory telling me to beware of people calling and pretending
they work for Microsoft I know your heart's in the
right place but please just oh
please number four why is it that every
time I go somewhere with my dad he's
always trying to get me to memorize what section of the parking garage we're in
so that we don't lose the car okay
what's the color orange okay what's the
number shoot I forget let's go back look I'm way ahead of you Dad just take a
picture and move on it doesn't consume
film anymore and we don't have to wait for it to get
developed number five you convinced your
mother-in-law to get a cell phone but she refuses to get cellular data because
it's expensive and Lisa needs braces
well you know what I have to say to that data plan it's like $10 a month Less on
Ting and you know what else is expensive getting lost two blocks from your
grandson's birthday party and spending 15 minutes on the phone with me trying
to figure out where the heck you are which way is west and which Auto Wrecker
to drive towards to get back on the right path you aren't even supposed to
be on the phone when you're driving
number six my dad knows how to text me
he even sends instant messages and pictures over Hangouts but he doesn't
seem to grasp the added utility that
these modern mediums have over snail mail so every 3 to 5 days he sends me an
epic wall of text with where he's staying the recent weather best wishes
for the kids and then he signs his name at the bottom and I'm like pops it's
instant messaging I can reply right away
you can reply right away and we can have a conversation do your relatives ever
send you snail mail and then text you to tell you to expect it why did you number
seven my auntie still brings her digital
point and shoot that runs on ablea batteries to family functions even
though the camera on her phone is way better way easier to use and easy to to
share pictures with it just seems like it's hard for some older people to
internalize just how many single use devices modern phones have replaced I
mean what's next a calculator at the restaurant to split the belt damn it
Vern there is an app for that and finally number eight right next to the
landline phone at my grandparents house
is a wall power adapter for the cell phone that lives in the wall with the
phone next to it plugged in 100% of the
time when they're at home sometimes I
even see them stand there while they're talking on it do you realize that modern
phones like this one can last for like 2
days before they die why not just plug it in when you go to bed well that way I
always know where it is you don't go
anywhere Lynn just keep it in your pocket and that way you'll know where it
is and you'll actually be safer in the
event of a nasty fall or a freak accident with a knitting needle or
whatever so thanks to honor for
sponsoring this list of ways that people are bound to misuse their awesome
technology you can check out the link to where to buy the honor 6X in the video
description and while you're down there drop your favorite my family sucks at
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