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pkScary

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Why do people feel the need to actually *touch* a screen to point something out?! I haven't cared so much before, but now that I have a 22 inch widescreen I think I should put a little museum-like sign up "No touching please" next to my monitor.
 
lol..I know what you mean. Happens to me all the time. The worst is when they touch it and go "oh look there" then after you say watch the screen don't touch, they still point but just stop short like half an inch, which still makes you think about them not touching the screen and not what they are actually trying to point out..:p
 
omg after whenever my friend comes over i have to rub windex on a rag vigerously all over my CRT

its fine with my lcd though.
 
Because when they were toddlers they used to point out things on the tv to their parents and they thought it was cute and never corrected them...at least that's my theory.:D
 
omfriggingod!!!

a chick touched my X60s last week and i got PIST!!! O k, naybe its cause im drunk now, but ya, I got ma.d. Its awful that people have the need to touch the damn screen. ugh.
 
yeah i dont do anything when people do it to their own screens but if anyone is even near my computer (which doesnt happen often) or maybe a computer that my parents own that i'm using i always slap the finger away......"dont do that"
 
lol same problem here when my mother uses the PC...I mean why do you have to point to something with your finger about a 1/4 inch away from the LCD...
 
this isn't a problem w/ me because I don't let any one get any where near my 24" Dell to have that problem.

case solved. :p
 
At my old job we had flat panels. We shared seats over shifts, and sat next to each other. I would frequently come in to find the person using my desk during the day musta thought they were using a touch screen or something. The one next to me, the girl constantly had her fingers all over her panel, the oil was a freakin mess. One time she pointed out something on my panel, the second her finger made contact with the TFT I gave her a wicked stare and requested she NEVER touch my panel again. She didn't understand my frustration at all.
 
SuperSubZero said:
At my old job we had flat panels. We shared seats over shifts, and sat next to each other. I would frequently come in to find the person using my desk during the day musta thought they were using a touch screen or something. The one next to me, the girl constantly had her fingers all over her panel, the oil was a freakin mess. One time she pointed out something on my panel, the second her finger made contact with the TFT I gave her a wicked stare and requested she NEVER touch my panel again. She didn't understand my frustration at all.
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lol! I'm glad I'm not alone. Anybody else have stories?

Also, why don't people understand? I don't want to have to clean up oil/dirt off my monitor, and I definitely don't want somebody to scratch it with their nails.
 
hehe, reading this posting, I feel like I am at an OCD Anonymous meeting. I too admit I have a problem, I don't like people touching my screen.

I dread the day I will have offspring, and they will start touching it, and breaking stuff.... Well maybe not dread, but not looking forward to it either...

Tho I suppose there are always wall mounts and protective glass casings! (think pope mobile, but with an LCD)
 
LOL! When i had my first flat 17" I didn't like anyone touching it. I would slap people's hand and tell them don't touch the screen. The flat screen last me 4 years then i gave it to my family. Now that i have my brand new 22" wfp the samething is going to happend here :)
 
It's even worse when you have a glossy screen and the finger prints show extra bad. Whenever I have people over I swear they just NEED to touch or poke the screen and leave fingerprints and grease all over it. I dunno what everyone's deal is with that. They're the outsiders, they just don't understand :p
 
One of my friends was pointing something out on my LCD, but not with his finger. No, he was pointing with a damn key! As soon as he got about 3 inches from making contact, I slapped that hand away as fast as I could.
 
Is there any way to run about 300 volts to the outside of the screen only?:D


edit- with a hidden switch to turn it off for cleanings of course.
 
LOL! I'm glad there are others that are as obsessive about this as I am.

I don't like fingers getting NEAR my monitor, and you're liable to lose that finger if you dare touch it! :eek: :mad:

I just don't get why some people have to touch the monitor to point something out!

randy5554 said:
One of my friends was pointing something out on my LCD, but not with his finger. No, he was pointing with a damn key! As soon as he got about 3 inches from making contact, I slapped that hand away as fast as I could.
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I've seen monitors where people were pointing things out on them with pens. Not only did they scratch the crap out of the monitor, they left ink on it as well!
 
darklight_tr said:
LOL! I'm glad there are others that are as obsessive about this as I am.

I don't like fingers getting NEAR my monitor, and you're liable to lose that finger if you dare touch it! :eek: :mad:

I just don't get why some people have to touch the monitor to point something out!



I've seen monitors where people were pointing things out on them with pens. Not only did they scratch the crap out of the monitor, they left ink on it as well!
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Out of about 30 monitors in the office where I work....I estimate roughly 20 of them either have fingerprints, ink scrawls from pens or both. Sometimes I weep for the intelligence of humanity.:(
 
Sorry to bring this two month old thread up, but didn't want to start a brand new one to rant. Just had relatives over who hadn't checked their email since Sunday so they felt the need to access the closest machine; turned out to be mine. The second I got up to let them at it, all I was worried about was 'would they touch my new-ish 24", $800 panel'.

Only took 4 minutes from the sitdown for the first effing finger to land, which ended in a total of 5 or so swipes/pokes. Then came the photo session; why the hell did Dell put card readers on these things? To cut to the chase, people managed to 'point' out a quarter of a screen of photos. They just left, but my god, I feel like they've molested it. In 2 years of owning LCDs, I personally touched the screens twice (both trying to fix a stuck pixel within the return-period). Usually I slap people who get close, but they were old and I had to be courteous. Keep your gd hands off my monitor!

I'm not too worried about damage nor smudging, but the mere contact really pisses me off.
 
Demigod's Owner said:
hehe, reading this posting, I feel like I am at an OCD Anonymous meeting. I too admit I have a problem, I don't like people touching my screen.

I dread the day I will have offspring, and they will start touching it, and breaking stuff.... Well maybe not dread, but not looking forward to it either...

Tho I suppose there are always wall mounts and protective glass casings! (think pope mobile, but with an LCD)
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You've got it wrong...the people who think it's ok to touch the screen have a problem and should seek out a support group.;)
 
My cat jumped up onto my desk and peed on my dell 20". I nearly killed it when I punted it out of my room.
 
It broke my heart when I had a stuck pixel on my T42 laptop. Not entirely because of the stuck pixel itself, but because I found one of the few ways to help get rid of it was to massage it! :eek: The pixel became unstuck but I had my LCD wipes in hand as soon as it was all over. My poor baby. :(

My name is covertash, and I am a victim of LCD OCD.
 
covertash said:
It broke my heart when I had a stuck pixel on my T42 laptop. Not entirely because of the stuck pixel itself, but because I found one of the few ways to help get rid of it was to massage it! :eek: The pixel became unstuck but I had my LCD wipes in hand as soon as it was all over. My poor baby. :(

My name is covertash, and I am a victim of LCD OCD.
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umm...ahhh...err...it might be a good idea to use a microfiber cloth or even your lcd wipes for the massage next time. :p
 
I think I may take this to another level. I get annoyed when a screen has fingerprints or is dirty, but it annoys me to no end when someone has a screen that has fingerprints all over it, but the rest of their place is spotless!

Is your screen supposed to look forlorn among your $50 perfectly clean desk or something? If anything the opposite is far more appropriate. Taking better care of more valuable items over less valuable items.
 
covertash said:
It broke my heart when I had a stuck pixel on my T42 laptop. Not entirely because of the stuck pixel itself, but because I found one of the few ways to help get rid of it was to massage it! :eek: The pixel became unstuck but I had my LCD wipes in hand as soon as it was all over. My poor baby. :(

My name is covertash, and I am a victim of LCD OCD.
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I never once touched the screen of my first 17" LCD, and I moved it around a lot. When I sold it, everything was spotless. My current 24" had 1 stuck pixel and the only way I could even come close to touching, let alone rubbing and pressing hard on the screen was the return policy. Too bad it didn't work, but I did rub two pieces of dirt that were caked on and looked like dead pixels. Still, I used a microfibre cloth with most of the pushing an a 'surgically' washed hand beforehand.
 
I, on the other hand, could care less. As long as they dont push too hard and crack anything, I'm cool. I politely ask them to please not touch it, but it's no biggie.
 
Its nice when in your absence, someone sits down at your comp and opens a coke/beer or sneezes AAAALLLL over that mofo....

*reaches for LCD wipes*
 
I have always wondered why people *need* to touch the screen. They can't help themselves. One time a guy at my school kept touching the LCD we were on until he hit it so hard, the whole screen flashed white. I was like what the hell are you doing?

People in offices can't see oil covering their screens or notice a 60Hz refresh. It makes me feel like I must have superhuman sensitivity.
 
Pinipig523 said:
I, on the other hand, could care less. As long as they dont push too hard and crack anything, I'm cool. I politely ask them to please not touch it, but it's no biggie.
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Couldn't care less. Could not care less.

Anyways, I agree. I'd rather just wipe the screen off than make people who come to visit me feel like an ass with the hand slapping and yelling at them about touching my monitor? Who the hell cares? As long as they don't break anything it'll be alright.
 
FoxhoundOp said:
I'd rather just wipe the screen off than make people who come to visit me feel like an ass with the hand slapping and yelling at them about touching my monitor?
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That's one of the main problems--it's not worth driving home the point that you don't want them touching the screen, so you have to live with it happening, as well as the hassle of cleaning it back to perfection.
 
There was some trick to get CRTs to static zap anyone that touched the screen, too bad we can't do that with LCDs :)
 
zzz said:
That's one of the main problems--it's not worth driving home the point that you don't want them touching the screen, so you have to live with it happening, as well as the hassle of cleaning it back to perfection.
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Well, unless it's an every day occurrence it's not really that much of a hassle at all. I'd rather clean my monitor every now and then than to be the guy whose house no one wants to have a get-together at because I'm super-anal about my electronics. Not anything crazy like letting little kids play on my computer, but if I'm watching something on my LCD with relatives, I'm not gonna ready my rifle as soon as they go to point at something.j

That's just me though. If you're that anal about your stuff, more power to ya :cool:
 
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