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Greenlighter
i find myself getting peeved at times when i'm at peoples' houses and they're channel surfing. not that there's anything wrong with channel surfing as a whole, but their style of it... sometimes it just gets to me.
i have many different way's i'll go through the process.
if i have no clue what might be on and i just turned the tv on... sometimes i'll just hit the channel up (or down for that matter) button repeatedly, only long enough to focus the general mood that's on the channel and maybe glance at a familiar face or two.
sometimes, i'll give each interesting channel a chance, watch until the next commercial break, then i'll change it again to find something new to watch, hence watching an hour of maybe 5 or six different shows, but feeling that i've truly gotten to know what they were trying to accomplish.
sometimes, i'll just skim my favorite channels first... then if there's nothing good on those, i'll do the first method of aimlessly flipping through stopping randomly then making a decision after the fact.
there's many more ways that i can't remember at the moment, but i find every style of channel surfing to be unique in it's own way. it shows patience, memory recall, etc. it's weird.
my friend will scroll through the 93940+ channels he's got and read almost everything guide thing... that is way too slow. i'll occasionally mention a show that passes and they won't stop, they'll keep on scrolling then reading another terrible show... then stopping on it... no rhythm, nothing that lead's me to believe they're truly being open to suggestions. they're channel surfing to find something specific where as i like to channel surf to fall upon something unusual that will catch me at that moment in time. keep me interested.
what's your style? or what peeves you about other people channel surfing?
i have many different way's i'll go through the process.
if i have no clue what might be on and i just turned the tv on... sometimes i'll just hit the channel up (or down for that matter) button repeatedly, only long enough to focus the general mood that's on the channel and maybe glance at a familiar face or two.
sometimes, i'll give each interesting channel a chance, watch until the next commercial break, then i'll change it again to find something new to watch, hence watching an hour of maybe 5 or six different shows, but feeling that i've truly gotten to know what they were trying to accomplish.
sometimes, i'll just skim my favorite channels first... then if there's nothing good on those, i'll do the first method of aimlessly flipping through stopping randomly then making a decision after the fact.
there's many more ways that i can't remember at the moment, but i find every style of channel surfing to be unique in it's own way. it shows patience, memory recall, etc. it's weird.
my friend will scroll through the 93940+ channels he's got and read almost everything guide thing... that is way too slow. i'll occasionally mention a show that passes and they won't stop, they'll keep on scrolling then reading another terrible show... then stopping on it... no rhythm, nothing that lead's me to believe they're truly being open to suggestions. they're channel surfing to find something specific where as i like to channel surf to fall upon something unusual that will catch me at that moment in time. keep me interested.
what's your style? or what peeves you about other people channel surfing?
