No Good Deed Goes Unpunished...

I am among the quarter BILLION people who use Facebook. I have found it to be a fun way to catch up with people I haven't seen in years, or to keep up with the latest gossip and goings-on at work. I originally was on MySpace, but that website seems to have run its course and is on the way out. Plus, it just felt so.....middle schoolish. At least FB never allowed users to customize their profile pages with all those garish themes.

At Facebook, there are many pages that have been created to help users solve some of the many problems that surface while using the website. One of the features in place is a kind of forum where users can help other users by answering questions posted on those forums. I made the mistake of volunteering my help to other users by answering some of the questions dealing with issues I have previously dealt with, or knew I could answer because...well...I'm just a smart kind of guy. Based on some of the questions I have answered and the responses I have seen on the forums, I have come to one undisputable conclusion: There are many people out there in cyber land who are literally too stupid to be using computers. One question I answered dealt with some basic security/blocking settings, and the solution to the problem was very cut and dried. Check a box, click the 'Save' button, and the problem was solved. The original person who posted the query responded back by saying that the solution worked, thank you very much and all was good. I was floored to see that three or four other people responded afterwards saying "I am having the same problem...can you help me fix it?"

Huh?

Read the freaking answer I posted and it will work FOR YOU TOO!

It took all the restraint I could muster not to post back something to the effect of "You need to box up your computer and all its accessories and return it to the store where you got it, and tell the salesperson the reason for return is 'I am too stupid to be using this'".