What was simple now incredibly complicated?

[Babs Johnson]

Practically anything related to Disney. They were always experts in making simple things convoluted and complicated, even in the old days.

 

[Babs Johnson]

I'd be willing to take my chances. And the fact that passwords now need to be so convoluted is a major pain. I had to set up an account to run a new app yesterday and this was their protocol: Minimum 10 letters with at least two uppercase and at least two numbers and at least 1 special character and no two letters/numbers/characters repeated in a row (such as aa, 22 or ##).

I was in a Famous Footwear shoe store and at the register the cashier asked me to sign up for their Rewards Program. Sure, no problem, right?

The wanted some ridiculous long password, like 12 characters, with requirements and restrictions like you posted. For a rewards program???!!! If someone is smart enough to hack into my account they can HAVE my reward points.

I said I'd sign up at home but never did.

 

[porschegrl]

Legos?

 

[nw6675]

Pretty much anything and everything, particularly involving human interaction these days.

Pharmacy - I take a monthly Vitamin D pill, filled 3 months at a time so 3 pills in the bottle. EVERY time I try to refill it I go round and round with them because they act like they gave me 12. Even the bottle says 3, not 12. And they talk to me like I am stupid. I finally said - you realize this is a VITAMIN?! I hardly think I would go to any length to scam for extra!! (Whew, just had to get that off my chest lol)

Refunds - not sure if this pandemic related or what, but I have had to fight for several different types of refunds lately. Even after the business confirmed they owed it. I have never in my 46 years had to do credit card disputes, but have done 3 in past 6 months.

 

[Wendy31]

And, maybe I’m just starting to realize this (especially as my parents age), but how are the older generations managing with all these more complicated systems?

I started thinking about it during the height of the pandemic when most of us pivoted to an online life & began, if we weren’t already, ordering everything online & using services like Doordash & Instacart.

My parents don’t have a Smart TV or anything like Netflix. They don’t want to order things like their groceries online. They barely know how to work their smart phones & don’t use them for anything other than telephone calls. They don’t download apps. They didn’t like “remote visits” w/ their doctors. Some of it, admittedly, is their own stubbornness & resistance to change, but a good bit of it is just not knowing how or understanding the new systems. My mom has Parkinson’s so has a tremor in one hand which makes things like texting or anything online difficult. My dad is hard-of-hearing which makes things like Zoom meetings or remote visits w/ his doctors harder.

I feel like, in ways never before, the older generations have been completely left behind… from everything to the more complicated TVs to how you need a smart phone and/or an app for everything.

 

[MillauFr]

Logging into a lot of accounts online. Now almost all of them have to send a code to phone or email, etc. Also frequently resetting passwords. I appreciate the extra security, but lots more time consuming.

Plus they don't let me use my standard password of 1234 anymore...

 

[momz]

taxes?

 

[leebee]

And, maybe I’m just starting to realize this (especially as my parents age), but how are the older generations managing with all these more complicated systems?

I started thinking about it during the height of the pandemic when most of us pivoted to an online life & began, if we weren’t already, ordering everything online & using services like Doordash & Instacart.

My parents don’t have a Smart TV or anything like Netflix. They don’t want to order things like their groceries online. They barely know how to work their smart phones & don’t use them for anything other than telephone calls. They don’t download apps. They didn’t like “remote visits” w/ their doctors. Some of it, admittedly, is their own stubbornness & resistance to change, but a good bit of it is just not knowing how or understanding the new systems. My mom has Parkinson’s so has a tremor in one hand which makes things like texting or anything online difficult. My dad is hard-of-hearing which makes things like Zoom meetings or remote visits w/ his doctors harder.

I feel like, in ways never before, the older generations have been completely left behind… from everything to the more complicated TVs to how you need a smart phone and/or an app for everything.

I agree with the needing a smart phone and app for almost everything. I am not that old (65) but I did not grow up with electronics or video games or anything like that, so the technology end of things is always mystifying to me. I don't think that way. Heck, I don't even have a smart phone- I really can't afford one- and the phone I do have is from work, and it's a flip phone. I don't even text, so using an app for everything is just frustrating.

 

[Gracedis1]

Going to the DMV. You have to schedule an online appointment but none are available for months. You can try to get a same day appointment but have to arrive at 3 am! Then triple check to make sure you have all the required documents because they really seem to want to send you away. Just went through this with my daughter. Seriously the hardest thing to get done ever. Lots of teens here are delayed in getting a driver's license due to this craziness.