The Pesonal Computre

I am a P.C.= Personal Computer or Politically Correct or Public Convenience ?

First thing to say is that I do love and respect my friends and I know that as a general rule they mean well .

I do have reservations about the nature and actuality of our personal Interactions when it comes to The personal computer and all things r tech.

Why do most of your friends take the position that your computer is a free internet café when they come round it is not all of them but it is the younger cyber savy members of my friendship community.

Now then.

When I go to see my friends I go to see them and spend time with them not to socially isolate my self on the commuter.

Similarly I don’t do the dreaded I must down load this for you its absolutely you you must see it.

An while I am at it, its so slow your P.C. I’ll down load this, I’ll change that, if you run in this mode it will be faster, you don’t need this, I’ll uninstantiated it for you.

They go home and your left with three weeks of sorting and turning your system back to something you can use that works the way you want it.

Your work and activity on the computer has been hung up in the mean time and your bills have ended up unpaid and you are incurring charges for late bill payments and when you see your fiend again its. Sorry pops! but I only did this.

Step away from the P.C or I will be forced to use the Kitchen knife to remove your hands at the wrist?

No But seriously.

I don’t go to my fiends houses to to move the furniture, change the curtains, cut their hair, change their cloths just because I feel like it. Unless of curs e that the nature of the relationship master and slave style.

I don’t rewire their house, knock a wall down move the raises. Unless we have made arrangements to work together on their DIY. .

So why is a Personal computer any different? Is thee no social etiquette or code of behaviour about use of a personal compute? Is there no respect of the personal nature of the computer or the lap top after all it by its nature tends to be close to the most sexually intimate part of our anatomy .

Is there no respect of the personal space ?

If there is none of my friends seem to observe it unless they are computer illiterate.

When I approach the subject they get all personally affronted about the my refusal to let them on my machine .

I don’t have this trouble in any other aspect of my life ! Friend don’t come round and borrow my clothes use my tooth brush, or help them selves to the contents of my fridge. The Personal Computer seems to be outside all that accepted code of behaviour . So much so that I am thinking of placing it in a locked room the inner sanctum where I will go to work with my P.C. And have my own personal relationship with my P.C.

There is another aspect of the PC. That gets me the number of gay guys and game girls who want to have Cyber sex over the web cam . Not a good idea in lounge really with house mates and neighbours and the kids around . Often the contact on the other end of the cyber link are shocked that I am sitting in the lounge and not in a private space like my bed room. What is that all about I have been a user of the internet now for the last 18 years and I still don’t under stand the culture ?