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

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

Nobody hands me their gizmos, probably because the first thing I'd do is load some sweet porn on it. Not that I've ever had the chance to do so, but they probably know me too well so they probably just don't even take that chance. or something.

I have to admit, my roomies and such are kinda all old school online peepz, but they aren't particularly techy, which I find funny, because I'm like -- well I'm not like Comp Sci, or Developer or IT, I'm still just a notch above most on the tech-geek scale, and I just feel weird when everyone else I know from online isn't all geeky like that.

That's ok though. I think it's more sane for you to do it how you do. I don't have a cellphone. It's just so fun to hear people think how weird I am for not having one. It's almost like a badge of honor or something at this point. I dunno.

[sabotabby]

I consider myself really low on the tech-geek scale compared to my friends, but ridiculously high (like maybe third in my workplace of around 90 people) at work. But I'm only interested in pretty specific tech things.

I didn't have a cellphone for years, and I still occasionally make like I don't have one. It's a portable e-mail device as far as I'm concerned. I get seriously irritated when people try to call me on it.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

When my cellphone rings, I automatically say, "Oh, shit." (Not into the phone, although I'd like to.)