Are your relatives computer literate?

My mum worked in an airline office during my childhood years and I've used the keyboard and mouse for the first time there. The funny thing is, since migrating to Australia and giving up on the job, she never touched the computer again.

My sisters and I are computer literate but the problem with me is I never had the heart to learn touch typing. General internet routines for people our age (email, chat, browse, downloading, banking) are part of our lives and it's always great to find out new skills to improve our everyday usage (such as shortcut keys, custom configurations, remote access etc).

Technology have changed a lot and I was most impressed when mum tried out my Compaq keyboard one day with her master typing skills - she used to type with mechanical typewriters in the 70's :)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It's a sad sad sad truth.

But alas, they are not. None of them are. Not even my 13 year old brother. tsk tsk.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

My father knows how to boot the computer, log in to his profile, go on to internet exploder, and type something into the url bar to get the msn search bar to help him find what he wants.

My mother knows how to do all of the above except she actually knows how to google search with the google toolbar I installed and knows how to put URLs in the URL bar. she is capable of checking her email, downloading extensions from people she KNOWS, and working word processor software (OpenOffice FTW.)

pop ups and misc dangerous files are a non issue because I have automatic updates on their computer and told them to never click pop ups and download crap from places they don't trust, also they have antivirus/spyware software installed and they're behind a router, all of which I maintain with an iron fist.

My sister lives with her fiance who is a sysadmin, so needless to say, she's picked up on computers quite a bit and is more than literate enough even going so far as to play World of Warcraft

How ya doing, buddy?

my brother and sister I are all computer literate, though in different ways.

My sister is a graphic designer, my brother is a computer engineer and I'm an electrical technologist.

My mother is a fairly typical user, i.e. not all that literate. My father is not as literate as her, basically using the computer just to pay bills.

I have an aunt who is a computer tech at a local college and an uncle out of town who does some web design.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I tend towards being a computer god. Never went to anything beyond high school, at least for not very long, but I've always landed awesome tech jobs, so win.

The computer is my bitch. It does what I want, when I want it to, and no more than that. I'm better off with more than one computer, ya de da, self proclaimed genius.

As for the rest of my family....my brother knows enough to not bother me, but he's got such a beast it's lol. Everyone else, I swear I have to lockdown systems to avoid them from being messed up. I give up on trying to teach things. Lost causes all around.

FELIPE NO

In my entire family, I'm the most computer literate. In Fact, I'm the only computer guy in my family. Everyone else knows how to use a computer (Except for the Grandparents on my Fathers Side) and knows how to get around, but they don't know what to do when their computer comes up with an error.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

My mom uses computers all the time but my dad has no idea what to do with it. He's never really used one before.

Jam it back in, in the dark.