Do You Feel Uncomfortable When Someone Else Uses Your Computer?

8:00AM December 17, 2008 | Sean Fallon

Your computer is your life. All of your important information is on there and you have the settings just the way you like. Now someone wants to use it. Does that make you uncomfortable?


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Comments

  • WolfDog

    December 17, 2008 at 12:05 PM

    I freak out when someone else uses my laptop, I think that they will change things and get viruses on there.

  • Alex

    December 17, 2008 at 1:45 PM

    i get scared cos i have lots of stuff on their, like pictures of LOLcats that may get harmed by my noob brother’s peering mouseclicking.

  • Nat

    December 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM

    They might see all the things I’ve publicly posted on websites… I think it’s mostly just an irrational fear they might find something I don’t want them to see…

  • whatiris

    December 17, 2008 at 7:53 PM

    I have a folder named “Porn.”

  • Rob C

    December 18, 2008 at 3:43 AM

    The only person I trust with my computer is my girlfriend. Anyone else, even the computer tech, just gives me the jitters. Not so much as I have anything they shouldn’t see, just what they might upload or install on it that I probably have no interest in.
    Plus, having them “mistakenly” log into my email doesn’t instill me with the greatest confidence that they might delete something I find important.
    It’s akin to having someone rifling through your office drawers or the glovebox in your car.

  • Sascha Grant

    December 18, 2008 at 11:16 AM

    I discovered recently that my (now ex) girlfriend was going throug my email while I was at work. She had figured out my password. She eventually admitted to reading personal and often intimate emails going back more than three years prior to the start of our relationship. It made me feel sick that she would betray my trust at such a fundamental level. She got the answers she wanted – and it cost her a relationship.

  • patricia

    February 4, 2009 at 1:18 PM

    i really dont care if someone goes through my computer cause i dont have anything to hide but of course it cant be a complete stranger……i dont want any viruses

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