two guys in their early forties don't know about computers???

I think it's more of a they're applying for an internship at Google and don't understand coding although have a lot of sales/people experience that helps them out in the end. It's more enjoyable by an older demographic although I found it hilarious considering I run into some of the same tech issues while talking to my co-workers about social media marketing. I saw the Unrated version which would be rated R versus the PG13 shown in theaters.

Three of my friends gained employment after they completed the internship program. It's insanely competitive and they're all genius level technoids that can literally code in their sleep and speak in at least three languages (one required is Chinese). The hack-a-thons as seen in The Social Network are an actual thing; the doing a shot for the end of every line of code in order to hack into something then partying hard after. Also within the internship program they will say you 'failed' at something just to see how you accept failure at something...Most actually fail that test by giving up or breaking down. Of those whom worked at Google there were two guys and one girl. All three quit after two years and moved on to other companies since Google is extremely high pressure although they have represented it correctly within the film.

I'm studying to become a Librarian and Information Technician. I'm currently mid-20s...I actually need to have some coding experience/understanding for my job as well as providing tech help for laptops/tablets/smartphones.

My dad, who's in his late 50s now, worked on computers when they were the size of a room and I played pool and Pac-Man on one of the first PCs available before they were available to anyone beyond technicians. Computers are now beyond his understanding of the technical components beyond basic names of parts.

Mom is not tech literate and considers all social media stupid and a waste of time.

My grandma is 85 and she used a computer up until this year...her mind's going now so we don't want her to accidentally order something on ebay by accident.

Umm, so many people that age has no idea on how to actually use a computer. That is a fact. If you can go back to college, you can see all the older people going back for some more education and they have no idea on anything about it. From young people to old. Since I was raised using a PC since the early 90s when I was 6, I felt like a God...

Not everyone is the same. HOpe you can understand that.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who never used a PC in their entire life.
I'm not talking about people in the early forties but much younger too.

ex: 3 years ago, at my university, the school had to do a class about how to use a PC because a lot of people didn't know how to use the E-plattform to just create an account and use the teachers documents. They had to start to explain how to turn on a pc, click the start button to find internet explorer.
I started to use pC around 1995 I was so amazed about that!!!!!!!

Last year, I'm talking about a professional photography school, people around 18-35 had so much problem just to add some file to an e-mail or to understand that jpg it's a type of file, compressed compare to RAW. When the teacher took the example about mp3, people were amazed to discover that was a compressed file.
We had 1 hour class, because people had problem to plug in a camera and copy some picture in the HARD disk: they didn't know how to use folders, create one or just copy one in a external HD.

Its' totally possible, trust me.

Well I'm 38 and I've been using computers since elementary school, back when we were programming in BASIC. But since I didn't study computer programming beyond college I'm pretty much limited to using the programs other people write. So I can find my way around the internet and sometime fix my computer when it's acting up, and I can learn any program I need to learn when I want to do something with it, but that's a far cry from knowing how to program or debug code. These guys were trying to bluff through programming code that takes people years to learn. Anyone would be lost. I'd be lost.

You must be very close minded, not get out much, or simply you aren't aware of people around you.

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for normal guys in the 40s most likely they know about computers, because first their job probably require to use computer, second they don't have much going in real life. but for guys like vince and owen, they probably really don't know computers much irl

i know they are movie characters, but it's understandable for middle aged man to not know about computers

My dad is 52 and a couple of years ago he had no clue how to use the computer. He bought himself a laptop and began bugging us to teach him, it felt quite annoying to tell him this is the Start button, this is how you shut it down, this is how you go online. Anyways, he began playing with it himself and he has found youtube, youtube is where he is always at now. He now has his own e-mail and facebook, so he is doing okay now.

My mom who is 48 has no clue how to use it, she does not even know how to turn it on or off. My aunt who is 50 slowly learned how to use it, I hear she is very gullible and a lot of times wants to give out her info to the Prince of Kenya to share his income with her -_-.

I'm 39, female and until illness struck me down worked as a systems data flow specialist at a global company analysing errors and creating ways to fix them. I've been using computers since I was about 8yrs old and have a degree in programming and systems development.

I have never skyped, don't know what the hell a hashtag is for even if I did use twitter, which I don't and have no interest in doing so and am generally uninterested in using any form of social media like Instagram. I can fix pretty much any problem with windows or unix platforms, but couldn't tell you how to send a twitter message. If I want to know what's going on with someone, I call them.

Your assumption that people of about 40 have to be computer experts is the unbelievable part of your comment. I have friends in the different parts of the IT industry that have been in it a lot longer then me and couldn't even build a computer if they had a gun to their heads. Try seeing the movie, it's pretty good for what it is.