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brin_bellway) wrote2019-11-24 04:54 pm
brin_bellway) wrote2019-11-24 04:54 pm
A museum guide said to me once that we have been cyborgs since we first wore clothes
A customer was struggling with our app today and handed the phone to me to set up.
It always weirds me out when strangers just casually hand me their smartphones (and annoys me when strangers think they can just casually handle *my* smartphone). It feels...*intimate*. Not a *sexual* intimacy--I have no problem with my mother's tablet--but intimate.
Your computers are like an extension of yourself, you know? *Especially* a computer you carry close to you almost all the time. It's a part of your body, a part of your mind. It seems that a lot of people don't feel that way, though. Or maybe they'd be just as casual about other forms of contact.
It always weirds me out when strangers just casually hand me their smartphones (and annoys me when strangers think they can just casually handle *my* smartphone). It feels...*intimate*. Not a *sexual* intimacy--I have no problem with my mother's tablet--but intimate.
Your computers are like an extension of yourself, you know? *Especially* a computer you carry close to you almost all the time. It's a part of your body, a part of your mind. It seems that a lot of people don't feel that way, though. Or maybe they'd be just as casual about other forms of contact.