Luddite Needs Help!

[edger]

I'm useless on this iPad so please help.
Some of you guys are hilarious and I've been reacting with "likes" because I don't know how to do those yellow "Ha Ha"s with the face!
Also, if I hit "reply" by mistake, how do I delete it. I need to know this so I can practice with those hieroglyphics at the top of the bo without posting.
Thank you from a technologically challenged old bastard!

 

[Country Bladesmith]

On the like thing, you have to hold down the like button for a split second and the other options will come up.

 

[canucklehead]

My operative method for technology is the same as for women, if I push enough buttons it will eventually do the thing I want and then I can work backward from there/reverse engineer to figure out a repeatable solution.

 

[highwaycobbery]

Go to where you write, on the top push the little smiley face. Have fun.

 

[anotherbob]

you could always write out your responses. Like quote the comment then write ha ha ha or smiles or that makes me sad or angry heck you can even have more responses only limited by your vocab and imagination.

 

[anotherbob]

Go to where you write, on the top push the little smiley face. Have fun.

like that?

 

[Ahi Ka]

@edgar this would explain why you have been posting so many random selfies lately

 

[Chasing Embers]

I've never owned a computer, much less a tablet, and the only reason I own a smartphone is because my service provider stopped supporting flip phones.

 

[edger]

@edgar this would explain why you have been posting so many random selfies lately

Wha? I’m thick.

 

[mso489]

Luddite? Luddite? You rang? At least you're on an iPad. My flip phone is strictly low i.q. I'm on a Apple Mac desktop. I tried to contact Forums on my parchment with my quill pen, but I still haven't figured it out. I still use email, which is about as current as a FAX machine if you were born after 1968. Twitter and texting, foreign territory. I never made it to My Space. At work, I started out on a DecMate ... anyone ever heard of that? It worked pretty well when the dinosaurs weren't knocking over the phone poles. Those critters were huge!

 

[edger]

Luddite? Luddite? You rang? At least you're on an iPad. My flip phone is strictly low i.q. I'm on a Apple Mac desktop. I tried to contact Forums on my parchment with my quill pen, but I still haven't figured it out. I still use email, which is about as current as a FAX machine if you were born after 1968. Twitter and texting, foreign territory. I never made it to My Space. At work, I started out on a DecMate ... anyone ever heard of that? It worked pretty well when the dinosaurs weren't knocking over the phone poles. Those critters were huge!

E-mail? I still use pigeons. Just kidding, but I take a certain perverse pleasure in being unwoke technologically, except where it interferes with my use of this forum. You guys are dragging me in to the 20th century, the last century I can handle. I always enjoy the thoughtfulness of your posts, my friend.

 

[shanez]

I'm useless on this iPad so please help.
Some of you guys are hilarious and I've been reacting with "likes" because I don't know how to do those yellow "Ha Ha"s with the face!
Also, if I hit "reply" by mistake, how do I delete it. I need to know this so I can practice with those hieroglyphics at the top of the bo without posting.
Thank you from a technologically challenged old bastard!

Try holding down the like button and see if an emoticon (smiley face) menu (small window) pops up.

This is what I do depending on the device/operating system/web browser I'm using.

On one of them, the smiley face window opens up but so does another window asking if I want to open the link in a new tab. I just tap once anywhere but on either of the pop-up windows and I'm left with the emoticon window.

I do tend to use non-mainstream stuff.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Another take is to use only the like button. Saves time. There are also built in emojis in the middle of the compose bar. Such as:

 

[Ahi Ka]

Wha? I’m thick.

Just winding you up man. You’re all right. If I’m honest, I still struggle press the buttons to make the faces. It keeps see it for everything and asking if I want to copy it ?

 

[edger]

Just winding you up man. You’re all right. If I’m honest, I still struggle press the buttons to make the faces. It keeps see it for everything and asking if I want to copy it ?

Damn! I thought I was hitting the wrong buttons and posting myself in my not so clean underwear! Whew!!

 

[Ahi Ka]

Damn! I thought I was hitting the wrong buttons and posting myself in my not so clean underwear! Whew!!

I think it’s safe to say we are relieved this didn’t happen

 

[Ahi Ka]

congrats seems you got the laughing face working now!

 

[saltedplug]

I refuse Facebook, Twitter, Tweeter, and so forth and so on. I refuse to get a cell phone because a lan line was just fine, but even that had to go when I calculated I had paid some $19K for service for 23 years. I went to web-based Google Voice which is free. Why in the world would I want to carry around a phone everywhere I go and have to pay some ridiculous fee for the privilege when I can make calls at my convenience from home.

Plus, data brokers and Big Brother love to monitor cell phones. Can you imagine how much Facebook makes selling demographics and histories?

And remember, Facebook is Satan's best allay on Earth. that is if you overlook human stupidity.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I refuse Facebook, Twitter, Tweeter, and so forth and so on. I refuse to get a cell phone because a lan line was just fine, but even that had to go when I calculated I had paid some $19K for service for 23 years. I went to web-based Google Voice which is free. Why in the world would I want to carry around a phone everywhere I go and have to pay some ridiculous fee for the privilege when I can make calls at my convenience from home.

Plus, data brokers and Big Brother love to monitor cell phones. Can you imagine how much Facebook makes selling demographics and histories?

And remember, Facebook is Satan's best allay on Earth. that is if you overlook human stupidity.

Yes sir. I'm with you.

Don't you guys ever find it funny that we all complain about technology, while using the biggest technology man ever created?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Don't you guys ever find it funny that we all complain about technology, while using the biggest technology man ever created?

Not at all. I would consider the internet just an extension of telephone and television technology. This is about as electronic as I get.