You once gave a friend computer advice and he still talks to you. You no longer mind being flamed. You know what a Dvorak is. That warm glow on your face is radiation burn. This means that you are not a beginner and not an expert, but we still have to call you something.
Newbies are much simpler to define.
Newbies are anybody so computer illiterate, so intellectually void, so emotionally desperate, that they would turn to someone like you for advice. But now that we know shift from enter , our world has changed. The growing masses of Newbies look to us as enlightened, all-knowing, and most importantly, free sources of information. You have now earned the right to act smug and impose your opinions into any conversation about computers. But before you launch into your dissertation on the Zen of mouse-cleaning, make sure that there is no one from the Advanced group nearby to laugh at you.