LOOK AWAY FROM MY SCREEN, YOU FOOLS.

Started by Ho-Oh November 9th, 2009 4:17 AM
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Ho-Oh

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Age 31
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Posted April 23rd, 2022
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17.5 Years
...lolsiggy.

How do you get people to look away from your computer screen when they are unwanted?

The only time when this really annoys me is... well, when Nan and Pop say "what are you doing?" and I say "getting music", and then they go away. However, when I was in high school, I'd have to pretend to be finding a difficult to find file on the computer. Although it's obviously a coverup, but it's an attempt. :D

donavannj

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Um... yeah... I just change windows and stop doing whatever I was doing, and, if I have to, I go to load up some really annoying YouTube video that I personally don't mind.
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Miz en Scène

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Posted August 30th, 2016
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I have this problem so I usually just lock the door to my room.

However, when desperate, I will not hesitate to pull out a long article on Wikipedia so the other person will just get bored and go away.
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I minimize whatever window I've got up and then close my laptop lid. Fortunately, this problem doesn't come up often. Random people in the student union aren't as nosy as family XD

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I minimise whatever I'm on and just sit there and wait for them to go away. XD Sometimes I can get away with opening a new tab and looking at random stuff on Google...

If it's my brother, then I simply play a song of mine that he hates. :D That makes him go away. <3
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Sammi

Age 33
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Posted November 8th, 2021
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18.3 Years
Either I open up a new tab, minimize my window, or just shut off my monitor. I haven't had to do any of these lately since my computer's in a room no one really visits. d("d)

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Nick

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Posted July 28th, 2021
17,572 posts
18.6 Years
I don't get people to look away. If I don't want anyone to see something, I'll lock my messenger (since I don't really care if people see what I'm browsing) but my family are starting to realize that windows randomly disappear when I press a few keys so... I must find another way.

Hiidoran

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Indiana
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Posted February 4th, 2022
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I usually just turn around and stare at them, staring at my screen. It becomes just as awkward a situation for them as for me, and they eventually turn face and mind their own business. This is assuming I don't want them to look at the screen, of course.

My roommate has a habit of looking over my shoulder, but it doesn't really bother me too much when he does it. I guess he must be really bored if he wants to stand there and watch me type. Poor guy.

Cherrim

Age 34
she / her
Toronto
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20.4 Years
I don't usually have that issue anymore but often times tabbing over or switching programs will work. I learnt early on that it was very suspicious to minimize everything to the desktop so for years I always made sure to have an arbitrary folder maximized behind my active window in case I needed to switch quickly. XD;

Now I rarely even bother doing anything. If I'm looking at something questionable, I'll just close the tab if I hear someone approaching and otherwise I just don't care what people see.


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X-626

Age 33
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Seen July 17th, 2012
Posted July 7th, 2012
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14.3 Years
For the most part, I don't bother anymore. If I have MSN or Skype open, I do mimize them quickly, as I hate when people read my conversations on there. My brother is especially bad at doing this. I'm getting to the point where I don't care if anyone knows I browse PC, so I just usually don't bother minimizing or switching tabs if all I have open is PC. If they try watching me while I type, that's a different story. I hate that, so I'll usually just stop what I was typing and switch to a different tab. I usually have two or three PC tabs open, so it's no big deal.
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For the PC in my room, I don't even need to care because I always lock the doors as long as I am in my room. There's only my brother inside the room except me, and I don't mind him at all.
When I'm away from my room for a while, I will just log off, and the account is password protected.

But for the other PC, I just had to do something. It's not needed anymore because things have changed, but in the past I normally kept another tab open - easy as that.
When I was even younger, I just was too good at these (not that I am not anymore), because then I would actually have the need for these.

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i hate when people look at my computer screen when im online
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i just say im doing something important or i ask for something xD

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Um, I usually don't care if they see what I am doing so I just keep doing it. xD;
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If it's PC, then I usually don't care if someone comes to look at my screen. Although, if it is something I'm working on or typing up that I just don't want anyone to see then I usually just switch to another program I have open, or I open up a next tab to another site such as my homepage, Google, or maybe just another tab to PC. Usually, this doesn't happen to me, but the most times it is to occur is when I'm on places such as my e-mail or Myspace. I just dislike it very much when people come snooping behind me to see what my friends and I are talking about. My sister has a habit of doing this to me and it gets annoying. I don't have anything to hide from anyone, it's just that I don't go snooping into someone else's business so why do they need to look into mines.

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Seen March 5th, 2014
Posted November 28th, 2012
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18.6 Years
Don't have that problem anymore because I live alone. :D But I do close everything if I need to go somewhere. But when I used to live with my parents, I didn't know about this place. That was a very long time ago. I wasn't into the internet back then. So my browsing was limited. So if they look of what I am doing it was fine. It wasn't a big deal.

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Depends where I am. Sometimes I look here real quick while I'm at university (like right now :x), so if someone is looking I either start doing my essay or go to a new tab. At home, most of the time I'm doing homework while looking here, so if my parents come I just start doing my homework real quick. XD
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