Parents Just Don’t Understand, Tech Edition

Note to Self

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Uh, mom, the eggplant emoji is not about food. The crying-laughing emoji is not appropriate for funerals. And dad, just texting 'K' is super passive-aggressive. This week, a real live therapist tackles your intergenerational tech dilemmas. And we try to stop copping out of tough conversations with a text. Admit it, you do it too.

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0:00.0	Hey note yourself. My name is Hannah and I'm from Bethesda, Maryland. I tend to find
0:05.7	tech miscommunications between generations just hilarious.
0:09.0	My 87-year-old grandfather recently got a smart phone and the other day he wanted to check
0:14.8	the score of a Kansas City basketball game and he starts screaming into his phone.
0:20.8	Google! Google!
0:22.1	I got the honor to teach my mom exactly what happens when you send a group text because
0:28.5	she sent a picture of a sunset that said beautiful sunset. I wish you were here to all
0:35.9	four of her boyfriends at once.
0:38.3	That's bad. It's note to self. I'm a new summer ody this week. You just don't get it.
0:50.1	But we can communicate better on our phones, on text, on social, IRL. That's in real-life
0:57.1	mom. We have answers. We asked you dear listeners for some stories about your parents or your
1:04.4	kids and some of them really made us cringe like Tracy who you heard calling from Tallahassee.
1:10.4	The one whose mom sent a group text message to all four of her boyfriends at once.
1:16.7	She had two fields, all of the calls saying, who is this? Who is this? So she called me
1:24.7	in a panic and I got to explain them. When you send a group text everybody gets everybody's
1:29.9	phone number. Needless to say, she is not dating any of them anymore but she is happily
1:36.3	married and she knows how to group text.
1:42.5	Someone had a happy ending but communicating by text or email or social media you told
1:48.6	us so often results in misunderstandings, especially between different generations. Sometimes
1:56.7	those results are funny. But often the interactions are also kind of painful.
2:04.5	My neighbor Kay was really sick and my mom texted me one day and said Kay died today
2:11.5	and then she put the laughing so hard that you're crying emoji or tears of joy emoji and it
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