At the moment I am wondering why it is that people feel comfortable telling complete strangers about their sexual activities.

I’m not referring to the plethora of online newsgroups, message boards and help-websites. These I can understand, you have a problem and want someone to help you without making eye contact. This is good, this is right, there are no problems here.

The type of situation I’m talking about seems significantly less appropriate to me. This is where person A, lets call him ‘Bob’ is having someone come over to set up his brand-spanking-new ( pun intended ) computer. Bob then explains to the poor computer technician, lets call him ‘Me’, that what he really uses the computer for is ‘The Sex Movies’, and that he doesn’t use his instant messenger software in case a message pops up when he’s watching one of the ‘Pretty Ladies’. He also complains that his 10gigabyte download limit a month is not sufficient, and he frequently downloads more than this.

Enough!!
Am I wrong in thinking that this is too much information to be giving to someone whom you’ve met 30 minutes earlier and who was using your mouse at the time of the conversation?

It’s bad enough showing people that their Internet Explorer browsing history is listed.
Or explaining that every website they go to gets cached on their hard drive by showing them a random .jpg from the list.
Or recovering photos for them from their camera memory card that they accidentally formatted and getting an eyeful of their fiancée.
Or simply being asked, Why is this streaming video such poor quality?

Do I really need to be told why they’re getting this stuff? Cant I just pretend I didn’t see any of it and move onto how to change their screensaver?

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