computers

[dakegra]

Came upstairs tonight to fined EB and his mates sat watching stuff on YouTube. Not really a problem, but made me wonder what sort of stuff they get up to online.

Maybe I should set him up a user account on XP? Microsoft do a parental control thing which I'm assumign I could put on *his* account but disable on mine...

thoughts? opinions? suggestions?

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[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I've also stumbled over some weird things - I'd hate for him to see some of that sort of stuff. That said, he seems quite happy watchin youtube vids of people skateboarding or doing mad things.

When I buy my mom a computer I'm going to want parental controls on that
HA! My mam won't go near computers, though her sisters all have them and use them all the time.

[boliviafang.livejournal.com]

(arg... hit Reply instead of Reply At Web Page... not sure what happened to first reply... somebody at LJ is probably reading it)

My mom is 65 and I seriously think one of the reasons she doesn't want to retire is that she will feel totally disconnected from the world. She's never been really gung-ho about having a personal computer, but when I cleverly said "we need to get you a computer so you and I can keep emailing all day after you retire" she was very interested. In fact, that's the first time I sensed that isolation might be one of the things she was worried about.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

hit Reply instead of Reply At Web Page

I've done that *so* many times.

My mam just doesn't seem remotely interested in having any sort of computer. She quite likes text messages, on the basis that she's more likely to get one of them from me more often than a phone call, but computers? No. The only thing which *might* tempt her would be to get access to the latest photos of The Beans, but an occasional packet of hard-copy photos every other month or so seems to keep her perfectly happy.

My dad, however, would have *adored* the internet and computers and stuff. He'd be on IM or Skype every night whilst we played something like Warcraft, or be teaching himself Ruby or java or something. Or be getting arrested for hacking into the Pentagon. I miss him.