When I got my first computer, about three years ago now, my sister came to visit, looked at my screen, with its Desktop Architect theme, and in a critical manner said: "Whatcha wanna put all that crap on yer puter for, don't make it run any faster!".....
Well I was somewhat taken aback by her attitude and said something to the effect that maybe it didn't improve performance, but it looked good, cost me nowhere near what her scrapbooking paraphanalia cost her, and I probably derived much greater pleasure from my desktop than she would hers, with its default XP...to which I got a rather grumpy: "It's nothing but an effing waste of time and money!!!"
However, and here's the clincher, her hypocrisy was soon to be revealed when she saw the 'da Vinci' theme that came with my purchase of XP Plus....when I visited her about a week later, the 'da Vinci' theme was proudly being displayed on her desktop....to which I queried: "Thought you didn't like dressing up your puter cos it's a waste of time and money?" Her reply was just as astounding as the discovery of her customised desktop, as she "only got Plus because of the CD Label Maker" (which was NOT mentioned when she first saw my da Vinci theme) and that "I may as well use the themes if I paid for those as well." Seemed to me, the label maker was the bonus, rather than the other way around....
Then, a few days later, when asked to do a couple of odd jobs, I noticed she was making what looked like desktop icons with some program she downloaded....and even more incriminating, there appeared to be a StyleXP icon on her screen that was suspiciously similar to the one I had recently acquired with the program. Oh yeah, customising my desktop, purchasing XP Plus and StyleXP was a waste of time and money, that is until she was doing it also. A case of keeping up with the Jones', perhaps?
Guess what I'm trying to say, given this and other experiences, is that quite often people will criticise what you have and can do because they have not and can't do, that maybe they have an inward admiration and/or envy they cannot admit to, so judge, criticise and condemn to cover it up....oh how fickle human nature can be at times.
In either event, whether or not someone likes or dislikes your chosen past-time/hobby, if it harms no-one, then continue to follow it and be happy in what you do.
