People keep poking my screen

[Trekkie]

one tactic that seems to work is to keep a cleaner handy and every time someone does it you interrupt everything to make a point of cleaning where they just touched while looking at them sarcastically like 'wtf you moron' that usually gets the point across without them loosing a digit.

If it keeps up, verbal comments work, and then depending on the environment a smack to the top of the hand catches their attention too.

 

[ZoomZoomZoom]

We're talking about this again because of the new iMac for Education. Having iMacs in schools brings up the question of whether the screens will survive or be poked to death by students before they learn not to.

My university has LCD screens and iMacs all over the place, and touching the screen doesn't seem to be a problem. In fact, I almost never see people touch or poke a screen. I think that most people have gotten technolocigally competant enough to realize that pointing is good enough.

 

[FleurDuMal]

one tactic that seems to work is to keep a cleaner handy and every time someone does it you interrupt everything to make a point of cleaning where they just touched while looking at them sarcastically like 'wtf you moron' that usually gets the point across without them loosing a digit.

If it keeps up, verbal comments work, and then depending on the environment a smack to the top of the hand catches their attention too.

Unfortunately, by doing that you run the risk of ending up with no friends.

Then again, how many friends have I spent £800 on...

 

[Doctor Q]

Unfortunately, by doing that you run the risk of ending up with no friends.

That's one way to keep people away from your screen; reduce your number of friends. Bad body odor, a hacking cough, and a tendency to snarl could help too!

 

[FleurDuMal]

That's one way to keep people away from your screen; reduce your number of friends. Bad body odor, a hacking cough, and a tendency to snarl could help too!

Telling people you have the Black Death or bird flu would also help.

 

[Cybergypsy]

I cringe when anyone points to the screen, i always think they will touch it....and no one touches my mac...

 

[Doctor Q]

I've trained everyone at the office to keep their fingers away from my LCD screen, but if I put up a solid color background I can see some spots, and there are small raised bumps. I touched the screen myself (verrrrry gently) to see if one would brush off, but it would not. It won't blow off with air either.

Does dust from the air collect that way, making tiny hard spots that need cleaning off now and then with a screen cleaner?

 

[jsw]

Does dust from the air collect that way, making tiny hard spots that need cleaning off now and then with a screen cleaner?

No, but sneezes, fizz from carbonated beverages, etc. can have that effect.

 

[Blue Velvet]

This is the first thread where I noticed the phenomenon that is Q...

...way back when.

No-one touches my screen; they wouldn't dare.

 

[Doctor Q]

No, but sneezes, fizz from carbonated beverages, etc. can have that effect.

My Dr Pepper must be the guilty party!

Thanks. I'll be more careful to open cans away from the screen.

 

[Boomer.au]

I always found having hedge clippers handy can nip that problem in the bud.

 

[BigPrince]

I hate absolutly hate that. My boss touches her screen and I tell her if I was her husband I would divorce her.

 

[nickweston]

don't touch my screen!

I'm a music producer and have artists coming through my studio all the time, and at some point most of them try to touch my screen to point out a vocal part, etc...

I just say "that's not supposed to be good for the screen" and they immediately get it without me having to say what I REALLY want to say!

 

[Quboid]

I hate that too. My GF has the habbit of doing it sometimes.

 

[phungy]

And this is why I bought a clear static screen protector that goes over the LCD

 

[Doctor Q]

And this is why I bought a clear static screen protector that goes over the LCD

Does it affect the clarity, brightness, or image quality?

 

[Zwhaler]

I am way more anal about people touching my screen than one of my friends, who owned a iMac G5 and he claims it doesn't get the screen dirty. My ass. After two years, his screen looked like crap and mine looked perfect. That is the difference between being careful and being careless.

 

[phungy]

Does it affect the clarity, brightness, or image quality?

Placed an order for it. I will updated once I receive it. Hopefully some pictures too.

 

[zephead]

Haha, this has been one of the things getting on my nerves lately, and here's a thread about it! When someone tries to touch my MacBook's screen, I just calmly explain not to do it since it'll leave smudges and such. I didn't mind when I had my Dell (which is my cousin's problem now ), but ever since I got this MacBook, the littlest things dirty on it (hair, specks, and such) get wiped/blown off.

 

[phungy]

Haha, this has been one of the things getting on my nerves lately, and here's a thread about it! When someone tries to touch my MacBook's screen, I just calmly explain not to do it since it'll leave smudges and such. I didn't mind when I had my Dell (which is my cousin's problem now ), but ever since I got this MacBook, the littlest things dirty on it (hair, specks, and such) get wiped/blown off.

Same here. I pulled the MB out of its sleeve with a glove to prevent any fingerprints on it. Before even turning it on, I applied invisible skin from BestSkinsEver on the outside as well as the palm rest, trackpad and click-button.

Still haven't powered the MB on yet, I install 2x1GB of RAM. Finally I turn it on with the iSkin for the keyboard. Whenever I go to sleep I place the included thin foam that goes between the LCD and keyboard because the iSkin has already made a small smudge on the screen.

Waiting on the clear screen protector ...

Call me obsessive compulsive but I try to keep all my technologies in pristine condition.

 

[McGarvels]

one tactic that seems to work is to keep a cleaner handy and every time someone does it you interrupt everything to make a point of cleaning where they just touched while looking at them sarcastically like 'wtf you moron' that usually gets the point across without them loosing a digit.

If it keeps up, verbal comments work, and then depending on the environment a smack to the top of the hand catches their attention too.

Heck, I'd keep the cleaner ready, but instead of spraying/cleaning my screen I would spray it repeatedly in their eyes until they fall on the floor writhing in pain and then repeatedly kick them. That will teach them to ever touch my screen again.

 

[Ish]

I always found having hedge clippers handy can nip that problem in the bud.

Secateurs are much quicker!

 

[michaelsaxon]

It's biology overcoming rationality. I blame evolution and our tactile natures.

 

[DigitalN.]

I just give them a little verbal warning, and if they do touch it, fair game.


"Touch my screen and I am going to touch your face, and its not going to be my finger"

 

[superninjagoat]

Since the last time I posted in the tread, I found a new, effective tool against screen-touchers.

I got an air horn.

Trust me. It works. I work at a newspaper, and reporters are notorious screen-touchers. Some of them even point with the business end of a pen, leaving marks on the screen. We got Apple Cinema displays last year, and the week I got it some asshat reporter touched my screen with a red pen. Fortunately I was able to rub it out. I got the horn the next day.

Nobody has touched my screen in months. tehehehe!

-s.n. goat