This Exists: Elderly Couple Caught On Webcam Trying To Work A Computer

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by Frances Martel | 5:22 pm, September 17th, 2011

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Have you ever come home from a long day of work, or perhaps taken a detour to visit parents or grandparents, and found the two struggling hopelessly in front of a computer for hours, trying to find “the internet”? Now, you can have the experience of being that very same computer that, by virtue of being inanimate, has to sit there and watch these two struggle trying to make you function. This couple got caught on camera as they tried to take a photo of themselves, and the results are endearingly hilarious.

It appears the two were trying to take a picture of themselves and didn’t realize the webcam was on and recording them, so our intrepid duo was caught making faces, asking themselves repeatedly why the recording camera “won’t take a picture,” and wondering how they managed to get the darn thing to work a little while before in the first place.

“Why won’t it take a picture?” asks the lady, not realizing it’s actually taking a motion picture. “How did you do that?” asks her spouse as she pulls up a photo she seems to have taken before. The answer is predictable: “I don’t know!” Eventually, she finds a signal that says she should stop recording at some point. “I don’t know what I’m recording! Shucks.”

It is clear after a few seconds that neither of the two know that they are being recorded, though the gentleman is certainly enjoying making faces at the camera and being useless to his spouse, who is working hard trying to figure out this computer thingamajig. It is a delightfully fun, heartwarming video with which to end your Saturday media fix. Enjoy!

The couple has garnered something like viral fame thanks to the video, and were on Good Morning America this week to discuss their online escapades. That interview via ABC below:

candid camera, computers, old people, your parents, YouTube

http://usaintelreport.blogspot.com CIA JON

i saw a similar thing except it was nun
to bad i didn’t get it on tape
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

It’s fake you idiots!
Anonymous

Saw this a few days ago already.
Nature Freak

I know people in their Seventies and 80′s who can run circles around me in regards to working a computer.

The people who created and or worked with computers in the 1950′s and 1960′s tended to remain tech and computer savvy. And not only that, they have a concept how computers actually work. They understand the “guts” of the computer more than many youth.

I realize the biggest concentration of computer illiterate people can be found among senior citizens, but there are many major exceptions. And as computers become commonplace in the homes of 80 and 90 somethings, the tech gap will narrow a bit.

And think about it, who has more time on their hands to dabble and play with computers? Retirees!
Anonymous

This is my greatest fear.
Anonymous

Cute couple. I hope they can figure the computer out in time to find out about Rick Perry trying to take away their Social Security checks.
Brer_Orabbit

Translation:

Hi Barack:

Here is our message to you:

“,.!.., ,.!.., ,.!.., ,.!.. uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu’ amd thanks for the socialist enema.
The Real Royal Emperor

Well, at least we know what Cecelia looks like now.
Nature Freak

Cecelia with the cocktail glass avatar?

My fantasy has been ruined!

I was hoping she was a cute intellectual conservative curmudgeon of my age (early 40′s).

Damn!
Anonymous

What the hell was she chewing on….?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWUMDXSUYVXFOVKEDR7OG3SD7A John Doe

Social Security Bubble Gum.

PS:They look frightened by all the endless Obama and Democrats demagoguery with their favorite catchphrase: “Republicans want to END MEDICARE AS WE KNOW IT”
Anonymous

I’m yawning . I’m yawning some more , and………ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz .
Anonymous

Today’s senior citizens have lived long, for the most part productive, happy lives never knowing the first thing about a computer.

Today’s youth weigh 200lb at 12 years old, have their own cardiologist, psychiatrist and cannot walk to the bus stop without the aid of an Advair inhaler.

You do the math.
cdnhawk

Turn something like this into something political?…nice..don’t you Tea Partiers have anything better to do?
Anonymous

Your point?
Anonymous

Ah… the rhetoric. You mean the republicans love and support the Communist/Socialist programs Social Security & Medicare? Really? You support these socialist programs?…….Millionaires and Billionaires/”Pay Their Fair Share”–those Billionaires need all the support they can get during these hard times……”Big Business” -Making record profits.They need the biggest tax breaks.You need to watch an old movie “Meet john Doe” …………….. “There you are, Norton! The people! Try and lick that!”
Anonymous

You really need to invest in a good pair of elevator shoes because way too much goes right over your head.

I went back and spelled ‘ it ‘ out for you and the other libs. If you still don’t get it write me a note…I’ll do my best to help.
Anonymous

Totally unfunny and uninteresting. That looks like the King and his husband.
Anonymous

Totally unfunny and uninteresting. That looks like the King and his husband.
Anonymous

So many words to say nothing.
Anonymous

Yours is on top of your shoulders.
Anonymous

I don’t know if it is fake, but it sure is boring and insipid.
Anonymous

You are 40? You sound like you are 3.
Mandingo ate your baby

The computer was created so elderly folks could play solitaire with severe arthritis. Just kidding, my elderly aunt at 82 years of age was the first person I knew of to take computer lessons for her billing job at a utility company. That was 30 years ago and she remained as knowledgeable as most people I know until her death 9 years ago at age 103.

The couple in the video have only been married about four years and are both widows. The smart spouse evidently died.
Mandingo ate your baby

You know you’re right, they do act like Fox viewers.
Mandingo ate your baby

Dentures.
Michael T.

Nice touch Frances.

It would have been easy to mock this couple. But you treated their little computer 101 adventure with respect and good humor.

I was taken with how much this charming happy couple seems to genuinely like each other. Bravo for them. We should all be so fortunate to have someone special in our lives when we reach retirement age.
Anonymous

Why would a NORMAL person turn this into something political? They wouldn’t!