A silly poll

[sabotabby]

I don't know if this happens to you, but it happens to me a lot, because despite my general curmudgeonliness, I am perceived to be some sort of gadget geek, early adopter, phone asshole. (Note: I hate phones, I can't figure out what tablets are for and thus hate them, and I'm agnostic on e-readers.) Whenever friends or acquaintances get some sort of new device, they immediately hand it to me and unlock it. And then I'm super-awkward, because isn't that just like poking around on someone's computer? I don't want people poking around on my computer, or on my cell. But other people are always inviting me to dick with their cells.

Anyway, I never know what to do. I assume if there's a particularly interesting app, they would show it to me, but when they do this, they seem to want me to just randomly poke at apps. Is this what people do? I have a smart phone but the apps I actually use are minimal: I have one for the intertubes, several for my e-mail, FB, Tumblr, (not LJ, because LJ's mobile app sucks monkey balls), a calendar, a calculator, a contact list, and a map thing. I hear it can make phone calls too. At any rate, I really don't think anyone is interested in playing with these apps unless they happen to be me. I don't have any games, and when people hand me their gadgets, I never really know where to find the games or how to play them. The last time someone handed me a tablet, I found the camera function and started snapping pictures of random people until he finally took it back.

Basically, this is one of those situations where I completely fail at social interaction. When someone hands me a gadget they might as well hand me a baby. I just gape at it and say, "ooh shiny."

So what do you do?

[Poll #1817413]

Comments

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this has never happened to me. The only times ppl hand me their gadgets are a) with instructions to hold it for them while they do {whatever thing}, in which case I generally put it in my pocket or on the table I am sitting at or something, or b) with a specific request, like, "such-and-such a thing isn't working, fix it," in which case I just try to do that! Or I guess sometimes b/c I ask to look at their device b/c I want to check out something specific, and they let me. If someone ever did just hand me their device with no instructions, I would probably check out the GUI and apps and things like that, I guess.

[sabotabby]

They seem to have some sort of expectation that I'll do something beyond stare at it and say, "Oh! It has many apps."

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

obvsly you have special skillz and should know how to unlock the function that allows it to print money!