In class surfing.

You've got to wonder just what people get up to on their laptops.
It's this tiny little database of everything you could possibly be interested in, it has the ability to hold all your thoughts (word processing), all your memories (photos/videos), all of your personal preferences... someone's laptop says a lot about them. But, what I wonder, is just what people use them for, which also makes me wonder exactly what classroom laptop etiquette is.
I mean, if someone's got Facebook up and is quite obviously creeping on some cute guy they just met, or jealously photo-stalking a friend, are you allowed to watch? It is in the middle of a room, and they've got to be aware of the other people around them, but what they're doing represents that evil part of your person. The part of you that obsesses over that guy, the part of you that secretly hates your friend, your classmates aren't supposed to witness that piece of yourself.
So why are you making it so goddamn easy?

I was sitting in Creative Writing they other day, and I noticed the girl next to me was idly browsing the internet. No big deal. The next time I looked back at her screen, though, she was intensely reading a Wikipedia article about Stockholm syndrome. Why? Of course, I quickly looked away, I didn't really think she'd appreciate me goggling at the fact she's reading an article about what can happen to someone who's been kidnapped. And then I started thinking, had she recently been kidnapped? Was she in an abusive relationship she likened to being kidnapped? Did she know someone in a cult who she thought was experienceing Stockholm syndrome? Had she simply NEVER paid attention to any psych/sociology/any humanities course/TV show about spies/etc, and therefore did not understand the term "Stockholm syndrome"? Had she accidentally clicked on it and just decided to read it? Did she just happen to have a seriously intense reading face?
All of these thoughts were flowing through my mind when I was supposed to be thinking about the setting of my short story.
I was so confused, though. I wanted to ask her why she was reading that, but something told me that it probably wasn't very good laptop etiquette to admit that I had been reading over her shoulder. And what if she was suffering from Stockholm syndrome? I can imagine it would be a rather touchy subject. But why look at something like that in class? Why allow everyone sitting around you to see exactly what's going on inside your head?
It's like that scene in Batman Forever, when the Riddler has that weird TV device that takes your thoughts and projects them in front of you. Side note: why does Batman have bats on the brain? I mean, that can't be the only thing going on up there. Anyways, it's almost as thought Batman Forever was telling the future, laptops have quite clearly become the things upon which our thoughts are projected.
Is this good or bad?
I have yet to decide.