I think this is more of a reflection of computer literacy.
When my computer does something wrong, I assume its my fault. When my parent’s computers do something wrong, they complain at it. Pretty uselessly.
I guess Clippy just makes people who don’t normally over-anthropomorphize computers over-anthropomorphize enough to get annoyed.
Well, you often are not doing anything at all wrong when Clippy gets in your face. Its annoying because it reliably fails, until I disable it.
True. Not only does Clippy not do what you want it to, it gets in the way of your doing things until you deal with it, and shows up at bad times.
I think this is more of a reflection of computer literacy.
When my computer does something wrong, I assume its my fault. When my parent’s computers do something wrong, they complain at it. Pretty uselessly.
I guess Clippy just makes people who don’t normally over-anthropomorphize computers over-anthropomorphize enough to get annoyed.
Well, you often are not doing anything at all wrong when Clippy gets in your face. Its annoying because it reliably fails, until I disable it.
True. Not only does Clippy not do what you want it to, it gets in the way of your doing things until you deal with it, and shows up at bad times.