Your Parents Options

[impala454]

i was just curious on this... i know my parents still friggin write paper checks for crap... they can get to a website but are pretty much oblivious on anything else.

[kcroxyoursox]

3 mom
she surfs, she emails, she shops and does a lot through ebay. any questions i have she usually googles them, or logs in to her online consumer reports account. she reads a lot, so she uses computers for information. can use all the microsoft suite programs, but doesn't have any interest in gaming or filesharing. she chats a lot and usually we communicate via email/aim unless it's something immediate. she was in charge of the company newsletter for conocophillips for years, so she does have some desktop publishing experience, knows how to use digital cameras and such. probably not as savvy on the hardware end, so i put her somewhere between noob and genius.


2 dad
dad has a computer. dad can do basic word processing, emailing, surfing. doesnt spend a lot of time on it because i dont think he knows enough to find it that stimulating. had a computer built for him with all this custom music software (hes an artist) but never used it, though i dont think it was because he didnt know how - just never got around to having the time, since he also works a regular job. just recently got introduced into filesharing because sometimes he wants to hear an old song to try to learn it on his guitar. i set him up with a p2p, my sister wanted to try to explain torrents, and that went over his head. so hes not a dumbfuq but hes nowhere near landing an it position.