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Five reasons to avoid giving friends and family tech support | ZDNet

i need to start doing that so i can stop getting asked

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Johner

Devilsbane wrote: »

Sad but true.

Why It's Better To Pretend You Don't Know Anything About Computers - The Oatmeal

Thanks for that. I just burned 2 1/2 hours of study time without even noticing.

jamesleecoleman

colemic wrote: »

I do believe that I would have told her that I was now declining to offer my services.

Yea, I'm going to tell her that I'm getting away from computers. It's kind of true....

Anonymouse

I actually don't mind fixing computers for friends and family. The only time it's bothered me was when I received a call like at 10pm on a work night last week from a female friend who just contacts me every few weeks or months when she needs some sort of help. Usually my friends think their computer problems would be pretty dumb for an IT guy like me to fix. Wrong! Compared to helldesk troubleshooting my friends always seem to give me fun computer problems to resolve as well as a convenient reason to hangout when my schedules and activities limit my social interaction nowadays.