Digital Illiteracy

Call me a digital snob but I find it kinda hilarious (or sad) what type of people choose to study for a MA in Digital Media.
Just the other day I had to explain to one of my fellow students that he can't do a project gantt chart in Excel. In fact, the mere purpose of Project (that is a microsoft application) is the visual demonstration of time management via graphs that Excel kinda doesn't have.
Oh weel, guess I can't expect everyone to know about this - fair enough.
However, fast forward one week and we find ourselves in a seminar trying to arrange a seminar meeting in second life. Being busy editing my avatar's appearance -red shoes, tight black dress - get in!-the girl next to me asks me how to enter second life.
She clearly has the second life website open but struggles to find her way in. Now you see, Second life is an application one has to downlaod in order to participate so you can't access via the web.
Again, I forgive her for not knowing.
So very politely I tell her that it's located on the desktop.
"Where?"
"the desktop sweeaart, it's on the desktop!"
"Where? What?"
"THE DESKTOP!!!!!"

Yeah, No, she didn't know what a desktop is. I had to close her windows and point the cursor to the desktop icon for her. Poor thing, I wonder how she is gonna manage 3D design, game animation and html programming.