mom 2.0

My mom has been trying to learn to internet for a while now.  She is improving...  she can load her own ipod now and use google, sure.  She figured out Skype while I was in Spain last time and called me rather regularly with it. 

Anyway, I am glad she is improving but she still makes me crazy.  Today, we were talking about browsers and she kept saying Godzilla instead of Firefox, which was hilarious.  She also finally called to cancel the dial-up (FINALLY because I installed DSL at her house months ago) and they managed to convince her to pay $20 a year to keep her MSN email address.  I pointed out that most sites have free email and she goes, "but theirs has spam-blocker stuff."

This was followed by her showing me some website that is basically a pyramind scheme to get your friends to sign up for accounts, for which you receive a micropayment for referring them.  I again pointed out that this does NOT qualify as 'working online' as they claim and steered her towards zooomr or flickr instead.  "But these guys say they have backups stored in granite vaults in the rocky mountains and also they have a digital developer that you can get if you work hard enough."  Digital developer, for the record, is a $20 card reader from best buy.

Oi.  It's no WONDER our parents can't trust the internet.  Everyone out there sees them as a target.  It will be like our grandmothers with telephone solicitation scams.

Bitches.