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* JBM: After the events of the "Friendface" episode,why is Jen still being portrayed as being completely computer illiterate? While she may not be the tech whizzes that Moss and Roy are,she still shows enough savvy to navigate web sites successfully and can operate her computer largely unassisted.
** This is pretty consistent with the rest of the series. Everyone else at Reynholm Industries is just as [[Buffy -Speak|un-savvy]] with computers as Jen is, but they can still use what they need to. See the episode where they're all convinced the internet is a little black box with a blinking red light, or the pilot with the infamous "Are you ''absolutely sure'' it's plugged in?" exchange. They can all use office programs, email and the internet, they just have no idea about any other aspects of computing. Which is an exaggeration, but something I've found to be fairly accurate in the real world.
** Very true. There are people who operate Facebook and use email and all of that jazz on a daily basis, but to whom even the most basic workings of a computer might as well be witchcraft. Anyone who hasn't met one should take a walk down their local shopping avenue and start asking people over 50 what a browser is.
*** This is [[Truth in Television]]; I do tech support for a living, and had a VP call to ask how to ''turn her computer on''. She had a secretary that had always turned it on for her and opened email and such before she came in, and she was on vacation, so the VP was completely helpless. And it's not just people over 50... 90% of the time, I ask what browser someone is using and get 'Google', 'Yahoo', 'Windows', etc.
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