Sitting here, using my broken MacBook, I'm wondering why certain people aren't quite as resourceful as they can be. My backlight is broken on my screen and there is an entire step by step guide online on fixing it yourself. A whole website full of easy questions to narrow down your problem and large photos with big red arrows showing the part they are talking about. It even tells you the part and tools you need to fix it. Now I'm a bit guilty and letting my boyfriend figure this one out, but he is an engineer, he does this stuff for fun. But, I would do it if I had to, at least before I chose to head to the Apple store and have one of the many Geniuses tell me the cost of the repare is the soul of my firstborn child. Who on earth would give up their child's soul so easily? Obviously they would then tell me to buy a new laptop because it only costs me my right arm in addition to the child's soul.
In theory that sounds great, whipping my new laptop out and waving it around at the grocery store with my also new robotic arm (to replace my original one I sold to Apple, of course. It only costs 10 pints of blood.). All the while I'm kicking myself because I know if I just got that one part I could fix my old computer for the cost of those groceries I'm about to buy.
The point is with the internet anything is possible. You get lost, whip out your handy smart phone. You don't have a smart phone? Grab the person's next to you because you are the only person left without one. Can't figure out how to save that file as a .jpg in that program you're on? We have had easy access to computers for the last 15 years people. Use the help function in that program and the six ways to save a file will be listed in bullets. Want to impress your friends with your wealth of knowledge? Google those facts and look sweet....see the trend?
So lets all focus on using the wonderful world of technology, making us appear smarter and helping us all on our way.
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