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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?
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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]
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On a side note, my partner got me an ereader for Christmas and - while I thought I would be meh - I am in love. The facility to carry many, many heavy books in a little light thing has saved my ass and shoulders on loads of trips and made public transport bearable again, and the screen actually reads like a book (not backlit) so no silly eyestrain. Utterly adore. That said, I don't now have less love for regular books, I have even MORE book love than before. It's awesome. I am reading so much more these days.
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Still, if someone gives me one, I don't know what to do with it. Read their books? Most people who show me their e-readers have shitty taste in books.
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