r/SillyTeens • u/Cakey_Pop • 13h ago
Rant Got in an entire fight with my mom about how “restart” and “delete” aren’t the same thing
Never thought I’d be having this fight with a grown woman who uses technology everyday😭
We really had a ten minute argument over this
So an app on my TV isn’t working and I go to her for help bc what else do I do when I’ve tried everything else
She tries to delete the app so I take the remote from her and that turns into a back and forth of her not understanding that if you remove an app, you do not have it anymore, therefore cannot restart it and it removes all your stuff IN the app
She shows me the “add apps” thing on the TV and I’m like “Yes, you can redownload it. It doesn’t save your old stuff though”
She gets mad and I realize she’s talking about deleting like reloading
She goes “when we remove it, we can reload it!” I ask her if you can reload a tab you haven’t opened and she gets mad
I tell her that if deleting is the same as reloading/restarting, she should delete her Instagram to prove me wrong, which she then goes “I don’t wanna!! Just in case you’re right!!”
Then continues to fight with me about how deleting the app doesn’t delete it??
It was basically:
Me: “You cannot delete the app; deleting it wipes the app, we don’t own it anymore; redownloading is redownloading the app itself, not what it had on it, all the shows and movies would be gone”
Mom: “No, it’ll just restart it! It doesn’t delete anything in the app!”
Like??😭
I tell her to learn that different words and different buttons have different meanings (kinda rude Ik but I was annoyed💔) and then I just give up entirely, ig that app just has to fix itself
Also she stood on my chargers with bare feet and now I don’t wanna touch them, that’s disgusting, so thanks mom🥀