[Arkcon]

Raging Deadstar said:
"Is your sister unhappy at work and trying to waste the company printer ink?"

Ahhh. I dunno what to say -- my sister, she's just not the geek that I am. She hasn't heard of these sorts of things and its all new and magical for her. That's a nice way of putting it -- on some mild level you could say she's just not as computer literate as the average person you'll meet on these forums.

I sent her a link to a story on Fark, something about some high school in the midwest. It think it was directly connecting teacher pay to student test scores, or something, I can't even recall it.

Anyway, two weeks after I sent it, she responds, "Sorry, I don't care much for Britney Spears. Is that really your musical taste?" And I'm like, "Huh? Wha... jus ... What are you talking about?"

It appears she's missed the embedded HTML link and was just reading the advertisement Yahoo! Mail puts beneath it's sig. I just don't know what to say. I just assumed everyone knows about those ads on web pages, and ignores them. Somehow she gravitated towards it.

Another time, I'm at my friends house. I've emailed myself my bookmarks so I can access them from his computer. I fire up hotmail, and start browsing, and my friend points out the animated "Find a Mate" advert on the side. I say "I'm sorry, but on my computer its blocked, so I didn't even know it was there." "Oh, no, don't worry, go ahead and click, meet someone." He doesn't even get what I was doing, using my own email as a storage point for bookmarks.

He doesn't get it, I never pay attention to the rare advert that makes it past my cookie and image blockers. I didn't even notice it. I wouldn't buy anything that needs to be advertised that way. I mean, find a mate, by that method? It just doesn't occur to me.