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Growing up, I had to share our only computer with two sisters, a brother, and our dad (mom, mercifully, didn't know squat about PCs - nor did she wish to learn -).
Dad taught us how to set up different accounts within the same XP build to have some semblance of privacy - or at least the illusion of -, but it was really awkward and inconvenient.
My older sister and I both had MSN Messenger accounts and were big on the whole thing, so we often logged on even outside of our own XP users, which caused us to bicker endlessly and to bombard each other with big words such as "invasion of privacy" and "disrespect", like either of us even knew what that shit meant!
My younger sister wanted to download everything under the sun and was always destroying the PC from the inside like an enemy spy through a variety of shady sites, while my brother just wanted to watch YouTube until his eyes bled.
Dad had to play mediator so much and so often that I don't think he even thought about it after a while — it was just something he had to do, like paying taxes.
But, yeah, it was really awkward and stressful... especially when files just "disappeared" without explanation and we went right back at it (in reality, we ran a VERY aggressive version of CCleaner that didn't fuck around, but we weren't about understanding how computers worked! xD).
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Dad taught us how to set up different accounts within the same XP build to have some semblance of privacy - or at least the illusion of -, but it was really awkward and inconvenient.
My older sister and I both had MSN Messenger accounts and were big on the whole thing, so we often logged on even outside of our own XP users, which caused us to bicker endlessly and to bombard each other with big words such as "invasion of privacy" and "disrespect", like either of us even knew what that shit meant!
My younger sister wanted to download everything under the sun and was always destroying the PC from the inside like an enemy spy through a variety of shady sites, while my brother just wanted to watch YouTube until his eyes bled.
Dad had to play mediator so much and so often that I don't think he even thought about it after a while — it was just something he had to do, like paying taxes.
But, yeah, it was really awkward and stressful... especially when files just "disappeared" without explanation and we went right back at it (in reality, we ran a VERY aggressive version of CCleaner that didn't fuck around, but we weren't about understanding how computers worked! xD).
You?
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