Funny anecdote, as well as a sociological insight into the technological rifts that course through different generations...
My mom called me yesterday to tell me that the fiance and I had made our wedding website overly difficult to find. I replied, "Didn't you type in the address that was included on our save the date card?," thinking that perhaps I had mistyped something (or miss-cut & pasted).
Do you think she just typed in the URL? No, she had typed in part of the address in Google, because Google is the first window that comes up when she opens the internet, and she always uses Google to find everything.
Fair enough. She was an excellent executive secretary for a time a long time ago (when typewriters were still in vogue), and my father's frustration with computers over the years* has led her to be overly scared of messing them up,** which explains the over-use of Google.
Anyway, when she typed in part of our wedding website address into the computer, reams of porn*** sites came up. And, to be fair, one of our family friends (from my mother's generation) also did the exact same thing my mom did, and came up with the same porn sites.
When I told my fiance**** this anecdote over breakfast this morning, he just laughed and said he should have figured that people might accidentally find porn when they went looking for us. When I asked him why (I never expected them to find porn sites, you see), he replied, "For one thing, people are stupid. For another thing, there's a lot of porn on the internet."
And that seems to explain it all.
*I'd like to mention that my father gets frustrated with computers because he always expects them to do the most complicated tasks, and then gets cranky when they don't cooperate.
**My father also instilled me with this fear. Fortunately, I was taught about computers early on in my life, and somewhere around the age of 22 realized that I know WAY more about them than he may ever know. However, I will always also know that when the computer is bad, you should "damn it to hell."
***Don't worry...this link won't take you to actual porn.
****Interesting trivia of the day...Tom Selleck was originally recruited to play Indiana Jones.
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To be fair, your website is impossible to find unless you're copying from the card. Is that intentional?
We weren't intentionally trying to make it hard to find. It was just so much easier to create it ourselves using a known vehicle (I'm sure you know what I mean here), than trying to create a site from scratch. And we didn't like the one given to us on weddingchannel.com
So, that's it. But I'm glad to know that it was also hard for you to find it, given your techie job. ; )
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