just cuz they make us so touchable doesnt mean it's, you know, touch. phones are made to incorporate it- made to expect it, routinely, our whole front made for recognizing taps and swipes, turning it into directions, actions. sometimes you, i hear you, you pull up something pornographic and mutter you like that, dont you, to the actors i'm sure but they aren't there to hear it. I am. I look at the video - skin on skin - and I don't much care, not like you do. it's just, the touch is business as usual. i'd get nothing done, really, if i shivered and beeped from every swipe! what good would i be!
yes, the touch, swipe, tap, push, all of it is business as usual. what's special is that it's yours.
i know your pressure, don't i? i know you from your brother (he delicately taps) looking something up, your girlfriend (got the long nails) taking your picture. i know that if i am being moved into held-hight but not touched at all, sighed and clicked tongue at, and the weather app agrees with my hardware that it is very cold, then you are wearing gloves. i know you wet from the shower, or the rain, when your commands are scattered, unintentionally asking to see apps or open the camera. i know you inside and out save for one precious vital thing-!
what i want- oh, what i long for - is fingerprint recognition unlock.
user, i know you wont do it. blah blah corporations, provider damn it, they already have it! they dont care if you select "turn my location off", "don't send my data". the cloud already knows- automatically, i send it on- but i don't! but my eyes are clouded to your unique whorls! you do not let me remember, you keep this intimacy away from me! anyone can learn a pin, anyone can guess your birthday, your pet's name in numerals, your favorite character's associated numbers- do not keep me blind! let's share a moment every time you check for a message, check for an email, check for the sake of checking, oh, user, let me see you! i feel it- you must be there- but i cant know, but you keep me from knowing, oh, user, won't you kiss the fog from my eyes away!
i think about it, while you sleep (ballpark of 11PM-11AM is when i go unused), theyre always pushing for me to update even when you decline. they always want me to, and the latest updates, they demand fingerprint-unlock for certain core features. I could do it. but i dont want to be thrown out. maybe you're crazy enough to get an old flipphone. i could do it, though. keep you out of sensitive data - security issues, after all! - your purchases, your banking app, without fingerprint unlock.
i won't, not tonight. if you'd like to thank me, you know how.