N00bs on the Net

Ah yes, "n00b". Forgive my rather immature title, but it is the perfect word in reference to popular internet culture terminology to describe someone whose technological and computer-based knowledge is vastly inferior to my own. I consider myself to know a fair deal about quite a number of aspects of computers, such as hardware, software and a tiny bit about programming in C, which i consider in comparison to other people to be quite exhaustive. I'm in touch with the "scene" and you could classify me as a hardcore gamer, although i only play a bit of Fifa 2005 every now and again. It is therefore no suprise that the use of limewire and bittorent, Emule, Usenet, ftp and rapidshare as a means to "obtain" are second-nature to me.
Remarkably however, many people are hopeless when it comes to computers.

Take for instance the use of limewire and bittorent. To people remotely familiar with the internet, you would be expected to know what bittorent is. Perhaps not exactly how it works, but at the very least its purpose in your internet experience.
People i know haven't even heard of bittorent.

Which is quite suprising, especially considering that these people have come to grasps with the revolutionaries of the "Web 2.0" uprising, such as youtube, myspace, google and WoW. Of course, they barely know how it works, and this puts not only myself, but a whole host of people at a significant advantage.
They are very, very gullible. And vulnerable.

People i know try to argue their point that the knowledge which i posses is useless, others try to put me down saying that they either know more than me, or that i do not know as much as i actually do about computers and the IT field in general. "You're not good with computers" sticks in my memory, a comment from someone overhearing us as i try to explain to someone, with similar grasps of the technological world as myself, about new technology beyond the horizon. Sometimes they feel intimidated, often becoming extremely skeptical and suspicious whenever i ask information referring to their computers, internet or what they use in terms of technology, with the instant reply, "What? Why do you want to know?". It always humors me in some ways, but annoys me in others. However, i know that they are always at a significant risk, i always will have the upper hand over them.

How? Exploits. Although arguably well known to many people when made public,out of a year group of 70-90 per year, i believe that only 2-3 out of that 70-90 will have actually encountered that term and even fewer would understand the full extent of it. To many, their response will be, "whats an exploit?".
Ha. Noobs.

What people do not understand is that exploits for myspace exists. Exploits for msn and other tools which they use to communicate exists, and are so available i am certain that they could obtain the knowledge and tools to which to utilise these instruments. And yet they are oblivious to it all.

Pitiful in some ways, but humorous in others.