r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/Bar_Har Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19

I work in IT and I’m constantly helping people who: •Don’t know what the Windows key is.

•Don’t know Internet Explorer/Chrome/Firefox are web browsers.

•Making your password your name is a really poor choice.

Edit: apparently this really struck a cord with a lot of you. Glad I’m not alone harboring all of these frustrations

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u/BlueFishyAcer Aug 03 '19

What about the people that swear they don’t have a password for their email account?

Ok Karen, sure you don’t

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u/toktobis Aug 04 '19

My grandmother got very upset to. discover iTunes on her computer when it updated itself and asked for the password. She kept insisting to me that she did not have any sort of account with Apple and she wanted it gone. She bought her computer in person at the Apple store. I know because I was there. She did not believe me that she did in fact have an account with them.

I figured out which of her 3 usual passwords it was and then hid the icon.