Are your relatives computer literate?

I just had to type a letter up in Microsoft Word for my dad because he doesn't know how to work the computer, and it's rather frustrating to teach him for some reason I forgot.
My mom can use email and browse the web quite frequently but is still at the level where she is susceptible to pop-up ads and possibly dangerous files.

So my question is as the topic title states.

Do grandma or grandpa like to chat or go to msg boards?
Are your siblings oblivious to how to work that power button?

I'm curious to see who other than you is up to date with computers, and whether you are the most literate of your families (you're reading this so you must know how to use msg boards/search at the bare minimum).

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My immediate family is all relatively computer literate. That is, they all use it for typing and e-mail and solitaire, but they wouldn't be able to do anything beyond basic things like that. Once you start speaking about hardware or specs you've pretty much lost them. I think I'm the most computer literate person in my family, with the exception of my uncle.

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I am now the only person in my household with a working computer as of now due to viruses and spyware, my dad deleted his network adapters drivers... sigh

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My brother and I hare both very computer literate. My sister is not so much, but she's learning (though it's understandable, she is only 11).

My parents both don't know much, though my dad can at least turn the computer on, use the internet a small bit, and use Word well enough.

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No one in my family is even close to being as 'computer literate' as I am. I know my way around my PC and am proficient and knowledgable in its basic functions, but thats as far as it goes. I don't think I classify as anything beyond slightly computer literate.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I would have to say my entire immediate family is computer literate, and I tend to think that I'm more literate for online things. For example, from buying things online to getting around pop ups to downloading things.

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My mom can do internet and some Microsoft typing software things. But beyond that she's lost.

The last time my dad touched a computer, it was a green-text black-screened Apple. And it was new at the time.

He's never touched a mouse. A computer mouse.

My oldest brother is quite a whiz at Apples. He works for Apple for Christ's sake. I use Windows and have nothing of Apple origin on this computer. He's helpful at times but at other times, he's as lost as if not moreso than me.

My older brother is about as knowledgeable as I am. He is gray in several areas where I'm familiar. And he knows some spots of knowledge that I don't (typically pertaining to emulation!)

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I'm probably the most literate in my family, if you don't count my relatives (aunts and uncles). My sisters are pretty much as knowledgeable as your typical school girl. My brother knows how to program but less then me. My mom basically uses it only for Internet, email and msoffice but she really doesn't need to know more for what she does. Grandparents? they think the computer is the devil but my grandma spends most of her day infront of a television set

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Me and my sister are probably the most computer literate people in our family, even counting extended family. My mom can do things like check her e-mail, browse the internet, and play Scrabble, but that'a about it. My Grandma doesn't use computers at all. My aunts know how to do things with computers, but not as much as me and my sister do. My uncle doesn't even have a computer, and neither do my cousins. So yeah, that's the extent of my family's computer know how.

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If this thread had been posted a year ago, I would have been tempted to say that pretty much every single one of my relatives are downright awful when it comes to computers, but it seems the situation actually improved a bit lately!

My father's better than average, actually, he's been messing inside computers for a long time, before plug and play and the like existed, so he knows what he's doing most of the time. I think. What I'm not sure is if he's good when it comes to more "modern" threats such as spyware and other annoyances. I know he's smart enough not to fall for fake emails, especially the Nigerian scams; he's worked in Nigeria for 15 years and from what I've heard from him, he doesn't hold the locals in very high esteem, to say the least.

My sister is, well, she's pretty much your typical 14 years old, though she might spent more time on the computer than your average 14 years old. Unfortunately that doesn't means she knows much. I'd say she's average.

Until recently I would have classified my mother as a lost cause. While she's still far from being computer literate, she improved a bit, and actually uses her computer to do stuff such as pay bills online. Also, fortunately for me, she only browses a few, safe, websites and instantly deletes any email coming from someone she doesn't know. I also doubt she knows how to install anything, and usually calls me as soon as any dialog box she's never seen pops up. That pretty much keeps spyware out.

For the rest of my family, I have no idea.

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My dad built our computer, so I'll say he's the most computer-literate. All my grandparents know how to use the Internet and so on fairly well. My little sister is technologically challenged, she has to have me help her use the remote for the TV.

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I'm probably the only person in my family that knows more about computers than just turning them on, typing, and turning them off. I get called a lot to show people how to do stuff. The good thing is that they are willing to learn for themselves. However, sometimes they forget what they've learned.

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I believe I'm the only "true" computer-literate person in my family. But like almost everyone else; my dad knows how to operate a computer. But the second something decides to stop working he will call me (or tech support if I'm not around.)
My sister has her own laptop. So she at least knows how fragile a computer can be. But she'll still ask me to install stuff she isn't too confident about ._.
My mom, well. She just doesn't touch computers. but she knows how to use a DVR box .

I was speaking idiomatically.

My cousin, sister and I are the most computer literate in our family. My mom can browse and use the email but if I try to explain HTML or different file types to her or my father they get confused.

My maternal grandparents dont know a mac from a PC and my paternal grandparents only seem to use the computer for typing recipes and sending emails and even then they don't understand the finer details of PC use.

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The most computer literate in my family would be me and my brother...my parents really don't deal with computers or electronics in general (call them old-fashioned)...but yea my dad finger-types and my mom can type (but not in home row)....My brother is the only one who can type in home row but I type just as fast as he does....meh, I guess we're not a very computer savvy but we're still literate!

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My parents are not computer literate. I had to keep teaching my dad how to check his email and get on to Netscape. It's frustrating. Oh so very frustrating...

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My mum double clicks links on the internet.

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My mom is somewhat computer literate, but probably on the level of just knowing how to browse the internet, send email, real simple stuff. She went through training for a job and learned the whole Office Suite (Word, PP, Excel), but beyond that, I have no idea.

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My father and brother are able to operate a computer with no problems. My mother doesn't usually need a computer, so if she's ever on one, there are certain programs that she asks me about. Microsoft Word and checking email are the only two areas that my parents focus on.

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Nice thread. No my family is definitely not computer literate. My Mother and Grandmother think they are but they really have no idea what to do and run to me for help with every little thing.

Most computer questions can be answered by just reading the screen. People are quick to ask for help because they are too lazy to try to figure it out themselves. I feel bad when I don't help my family though, but how will they ever learn if they fix things for theirselves once in a while?

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Father is. Mom isn't. Two cousins on my father's side are, three cousins on my mother's side is not as much, especially the two boys.

I was speaking idiomatically.

My mom would rather use a typewriter and white-out than to learn the convenience of the 'backspace' on a computer keyboard. The only thing she knows is how to press the photocopy button on our printer and turn the thing off. For me, my dad, and my siblings, we can't live without technology. I can't say the same though for my grandmother. She too busy climbing mountains back in the farm.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

My mom has a degree in computers, don't know what exactly but she can do a lot in terms of actually working with a computer.

My brother does well enough but he tends to fail to realize that how certain things work at times and forgets to use the anti-virus and anti-spyware programs.


I don't know about my other relatives, but my aunt doesn't know how to do anything with a computer aside from turning it on.

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Father should be very computer literate, having used a computer from at least 1984 (a Spectrum, which was changed for a C64 a few months later, and then on to PCs and an iMac at work) but he's usually quite bewildered by technology. Sometimes when I tell him even just "Dad, save the attachments on the desktop..." he tells me "Er... save the attachments on the desktop... riiiight... how do you do that again?"
Me = ;_;.

I'm the most computer literate person in the house, and that means that every single PC problem gets dumped on me. Hell, I even found myself troubleshooting my friends' problems over MSN or the phone, and I hate it (not because I don't like helping people, but because usually nobody knows exactly what error messages they got and I have to try loads of different things to get to the root of the problem).

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Hrr, no. Only my sister and I literate in computer. But my sister only use PC as typing tool. I dont call myself literate though, I dont understand about programming, webdesign, PHP database, graphic-savvyand such on.

But at least I always fix my computer myself, without bringing them to service center.

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