Do you consider yourself to be tech savvy?

pulse2

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How savvy are you? Do you have the latest gadgets or have you got some old mono phone still and happy with that? Do you text speak or do you write full sentances? Does PHP and HTML baffle you or do you know it back to front? How many apps do you have, do you even know what an app is?

How tech savvy are you on a scale of 1-10, 1 being not savvy at all and 10 being very savvy/

I like to think I'm quite savvy, although I avoid expensive things like the plague unless I NEED them, I know all the fancy things they do, I just don't feel the need to pointlessly splash money to keep up with the Joneses. I use basic coding and sometimes speak in text speak depending on who I'm talking to. So on the savvy scale, I'd give myself an 8.
 

SckizoBoy

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Nope, and here's why:

When I text, I use full sentences and check my grammar (apostrophes included). My phone is a lame piece of crap and I've never so much as handled a smartphone. I can barely do temporary hardware fixes on my PCs (granted, not so temporary, but still). I don't know any programming languages, HTML bores me to tears and using R pisses me the hell off.

Therefore: 3.
 

RagnarokHybrid

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Compared to everyone around me, I'm savvy but that's only really because I give shit a try and, through trial and error, can (usually) fix my devices. Everyone else I know is either too scared to attempt things for themselves or they give up at the slightest hint of complication.

I don't have too many gadgets, though, and I only spk lik dis wen deres a charactr limit 2 sav space.

I guess, based on those criteria: 5.5?
 

MercurySteam

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I take computers apart and put them together so maybe I qualify as an 8? To be perfectly honest, you don't need to know a lot to build computers but I'd like to think that I know more than the average computer builder.
 

Griffolion

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Yes I am. I text in full sentences, how does that have a bearing on tech savvyness? I know a bit of HTML, XML, C++, Java etc. I have one app, not amazing but it's still my app. I regularly give advice on how to build computers and diagnose problems as well as forecast what will happen in the tech industry, I'm rarely wrong.

Sooooo, maybe an 8? I think 9 & 10 should be reserved for those working at like Intel or something.
 

Plinglebob

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Hardware-wise, I'm pretty savvy though I don't always buy it and I've let my knowledge slip in the past few years. Software-wise, I'm pretty clueless. Overall, about a 6.
 

pulse2

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Griffolion said:
Yes I am. I text in full sentences, how does that have a bearing on tech savvyness? I know a bit of HTML, XML, C++, Java etc. I have one app, not amazing but it's still my app. I regularly give advice on how to build computers and diagnose problems as well as forecast what will happen in the tech industry, I'm rarely wrong.

Sooooo, maybe an 8? I think 9 & 10 should be reserved for those working at like Intel or something.
The text speak is more of whether or not you "could" use it if you wanted to and if you understand it. Not being able to understand it is understandable and it doesn't have a huge bearing on your savviness, but it does determine how up to date you are with the youth, even if you don't reply using it.
 

Griffolion

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pulse2 said:
Griffolion said:
Yes I am. I text in full sentences, how does that have a bearing on tech savvyness? I know a bit of HTML, XML, C++, Java etc. I have one app, not amazing but it's still my app. I regularly give advice on how to build computers and diagnose problems as well as forecast what will happen in the tech industry, I'm rarely wrong.

Sooooo, maybe an 8? I think 9 & 10 should be reserved for those working at like Intel or something.
The text speak is more of whether or not you "could" use it if you wanted to and if you understand it. Not being able to understand it is understandable and it doesn't have a huge bearing on your savviness, but it does determine how up to date you are with the youth, even if you don't reply using it.
Ah right. I can certainly read such things. And even new acronyms I'm unfamiliar with, I can take a fairly accurate stab at. But I never speak in such ways. But as you say, I do understand it.
 

Esotera

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I have a decent knowledge of C/C++, and I can work my way round Python, Javascript, HTML & CSS. Also I take computers apart quite a bit. So around a 6/7?
 

Cazza

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Savvy enough, I can. Remove virus/torgans etc, networking stuff, troubleshoot non working computers well, swap parts. I can code a little but not recently. I don't count having the lastest stuff to have anything to do with it really. I know how to use the newest stuff and I learn quickly when I don't. I'm well rounded.

So 6/7 It's really who you compare to.
 

albear

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Based on the average person nowadays who has a smart phone, downloads apps and surfs the internet with relevant ease (who id say was a 5) id rate myself at a 7 so a little bit more than your average bear