In-Class Writing Response 8-30-11

Most of my family is technology savvy.
My dad seems to be very good with technology. He is always on his blackberry working his email, and text messaging. I have recently taught him how to use 'bbm' instead of text messaging. He can use the DVR on the television as well. He is very good with computers, the basics anyway. He can install programs and fix the computer if there is a malfunction or virus. I have always been able to go to him with problems. What I have noticed with him is that with the new computers coming out with new and improved layouts, he does not know where to find certain tools anymore. Sometimes I know more about where things are located and how they work then he does. He has an iPod and now that he has mastered iTunes he is all about the digital music library. He has millions of CDs, and now he has put them all on iTunes, located on his computer. He spends hours in his home office 'working'. He is hooked on it. He has also figured out how to use his iPod to track his weekly runs. He is fascinated that he can synchronize his step to find his caloric deficit, mileage, time, etc.
I can see a little bit of a generation gap with my mom. She has 'mastered' how to text message, even though her texts sometimes are very funny and strange because of the abbreviations. She has an iPod shuffle, the simplest one and sometimes has problems with turning it off or changing the volume. She has gotten better though. She is very good with a computer though, she is an engineer, and she works with new computer programs and such all day long. She lives at a computer. She can email very well too. She does have a problem figuring out things on the TV. We have multiple flat screen TVs, which are just monitors, so we have to have a signal box as well. And then there is the Comcast cable box, so just to turn on the TV you have to work three different remote controls. Its very simple, to me anyway and the rest of our family, but it has taken her a while to figure it out. I sometimes have to help her. She can usually figure out how to DVR her favorite shows, but sometimes I have to help.
My brother is the most savvy. He is on Facebook, emails, has a Droid smartphone, and is always on his laptop. He has had countless laptops, usually because he breaks them with trying to alter them himself or loading too much on it. He is minoring in computer information or something like that at Boston College, and works on there on the side to help teachers with programing and such. If we ever had a major problem with computers at home that my dad couldn't figure out, he would be the go to person. He is very good with technology, but he also breaks a lot of devices.