Step away from the phone, Granddad! Unintentionally hilarious messages from older people who haven’t quite got to grips with texting
Technology can be difficult to keep up with, even for the younger generation. So it’s no wonder that some older people have trouble with this.
People from all over the world have unintentionally shared hilarious texts from their parents and grandparents Yahoo! collected the best in a gallery.
This included a father who tried to use the speech-to-text dictation feature on his phone and ended up sending his child a rambling message, usually containing the word “delete.”
When another parent also tried to use speech to dictate text, her phone picked up Law & Order on the TV in the background, alarmingly dropping the word murder into her congratulatory text.
People from all over the world have been sharing unintentionally hilarious texts from their parents and grandparents, and Yahoo has collected the best of them into a gallery. Including a dad who tried to use the speech-to-text dictation feature in his phone, but it went horribly wrong
Elsewhere, a grandmother accidentally texted her grandchild, thinking it was Google, wondering how to get poop stains out of a rug
Elsewhere, a grandmother accidentally texted her grandchild, thinking she was using Google, revealing her quest to get poop stains out of a rug.
Meanwhile, another father coolly replied “K” to his son’s sweet birthday message.
Here, FEMAIL takes a look at some of the funniest text blunders made by older generations…
An adorable mother texted her child to let them know she had purchased Netflix, but gave the streaming service a new name
Sale of the century! Maurice went to the Facebook marketplace to ask if there were any items available for no reason
It’s the thought that counts! A woman from the US received this text message from her grandmother and probably wished she hadn’t
In any case, the message is clear! Elizabeth’s frustrated mother, from the US, desperately wanted her to answer the phone
One-way conversation! In another hilarious photo, a US mom got confused and replied to her own text message she sent to her daughter
Call 911! Things could have taken a sinister turn had Linda not quickly explained her blunder
That’s dope! A grandfather mistakenly told his granddaughter to “buy some good weed” instead of eating anything
While another dad hilariously replied ‘K’ to his son’s sweet happy birthday message
A woman shared that her aunt had given birth and decided to share a photo of the newborn with her grandfather, but received this disappointing response
An adorable grandmother tried her best to text her grandchild, but it didn’t go according to plan