In Class Writing 8/30/11

I would say my family has about an average relationship with technology. We don't use excessive technology, but we don't use very little either. All six of us have cell phones, but no one in my family has an iPhone. Almost all of us have laptops. We use a computer at home as well, but it hasn't been updated in a couple of years. My dad just got his first Blackberry, and it took him about 2 full weeks to learn how to use it - probably much longer than it might have taken the average teenager in this generation.  We use our phones to call and text each other all the time, and our computers for schoolwork, email, facebook, music, and movies. My brother is probably the most 'technology driven' in that he plays a lot of video games and watches more than his fair share of sportscenter, and can be cranky when he doesn't get to. We do have Tivo, which probably leads us to watch more tv than we should, since we record a lot of shows. We have a 6 or 7 tvs in our house total, and only 3 real computers. I think my siblings and I have become expert multitaskers in recent years, but we're still teaching our parents how to do a lot of things on the computer. We all have Facebook, but my parents hardly check their accounts. We get along surprisingly well for not having all of the most up-to-date gadgets.