I grew up around technology, and I even have grandparent-deemed classic photos of my grandpa holding me in his lap showing me how to use his Commodore 64 system when I was still a football shaped diaper baby. The point is I live and breathe technology by childhood instinct and as a result I end up helping A LOT of people out with their computer problems.

Up until recently I just helped them, showed them how to USE their computer to not get viruses and spyware, but sure enough 6 months would go by and their computer would be ridden with spyware and viruses yet again. It was so fun to fix the same problem every 6 months so I wanted to share that joy with the world.

On the contrar, every strength has a weakness and my weakness was with my family’s computers which would frequently break. My touch of life would turn into the touch of destruction I would end up leaving their computer worse off than it was when I began.

Just about a year ago I figured out that most people are just lazy as hell and I didn’t want to be the only one putting forth effort anymore. It isn’t that they don’t know what to do, they just don’t want to put any effort into figuring it out.

Now when someone asks me about a problem, I tell them the Google search string I would use to find the problem just as I would if I were to fix their computer. Computer freezes when loading a program?  Instructions would be to Google: “PowerDirector freezes at startup,” then find someone with a similar problem to you and read the comments.  Computer slow from all the free goat porn? Google: “Microsoft Security Essentials” and “Spybot: Search and Destroy.” Easy, and it works.

Although I don’t get paid for this advice, it actually does give a lot of people the start they need to figure out their problem. The best part though is its their turn to suffer and it feels soooooooo goooood.

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