https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-208473 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:32:29 +0000 mrs. bird 208473@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@marriedandlovingit: my MIL does that! I always feel like she's yelling MOM at me because she wants me to call her that, except she's not my mom, so I won't :D</p> <p>My dad is very tech savvy! My mom uses it, but would need help to send pictures or something like that. </p> <p>MIL writes me emails because I avoid speaking on the phone to her. They are fabulous in her own ESL way, she has her own version of LOL where she puts: (she laughs). She also will randomly start writing prayers in the middle of them- which drives me insane! FIL asks for things to be emailed to him, but never responds or initiates an email. He doesn't know how to put photos on the computer, he has brought photos albums to my dad and asked him to post them all to Facebook. They were all pictures of himself. He wants an entire fb album of himself... Yea, he's awesome like that </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-208449 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:13:00 +0000 calsmom 208449@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad and in-laws know enough to get by. My mom recently learned. I have no clue though why she capitalizes "MOM" at the end of every email. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-208448 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:12:21 +0000 mrsjyw 208448@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In-laws do, but my parents don't... they have their laptop they use to surf the internet, but they don't use e-mail at all </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-208440 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:10:33 +0000 Alivoo01 208440@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad is tech savvy so yes. My mom knows how to respond to already established email chains, but not start new email threads. My in laws don't know how to use email. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-207571 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:44:12 +0000 MrsH 207571@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom knows how to use hotmail only because i sat down and showed her for like two weeks and then finally made her right it down. (This was 10 years ago though so I'm guessing she doesn't still have to look at the page of notes). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-207549 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:53:28 +0000 heffalump 207549@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad isn't great at it. He's bad at typing so the spelling is bad and he rarely uses punctuation. And sometimes it doesn't get to you because he thinks the send later button is send letter.</p> <p>He also used to not know where the space bar is on his phone so texts would have words all running together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-207545 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:40:28 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 207545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep. My parents are computer savvy and so are my inlaws. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-207544 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:36:26 +0000 googly-eyes 207544@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha. Yeah even both DH and my grandparents use email!</p> <p>ETA Well two of three grandparents do, anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-207536 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:22:51 +0000 skibobrown 207536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My MIL is amazing with email and technology. My parents, not so much. They can send emails, but they don't really get how open or send attachments. FIL is a whole different story. He doesn't even have a computer or an email account. It's so annoying b/c we have to print out all of our baby pictures and send them to him via snail mail... like we have time to do that as new parents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-207485 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:21:23 +0000 prettylizy 207485@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, they all know how to e-mail. FIL is better than MIL, she doesn't do much but she can check and send a few things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-207482 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:20:02 +0000 autumnlove 207482@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, they know how to read email but saving pictures or attaching pictures is something they cannot grasp. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-parentsin-laws-know-how-to-use-email#post-207462 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:08:40 +0000 mediagirl 207462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are very computer savvy. My FIL and MIL on the other hand...they have an email account that they know how to open to see emails from us. When my MIL responds to emails, she responds under the original message. I have no idea how she does this since your cursor automatically goes to the top of the original message...it drives me BONKERS! lol </p>