Learning to Play Electric

I mainly play acoustic guitar, but when I'd been playing about two years out of the clear blue this old friend of my dad (apparently he'd helped them out years and years ago and now he's rich and wanted to kind of pay him back so to speak) calls on the phone one day. i din't know him but he said he wanted to talk to me which was kind of akward, but he says he heard I played guitar and was asking me if I like avoustic or electric better, to which I said I couldn't afford an electric so I'd never played one. So christmas rolls around and papa goes to visit him in houston. Comes back and hands me a guitar case and inside is a brand new shiny red Squire Strat, said it was a Christmas present from Marcus Cook.....
Ok sorry this story is so long but I came pretty near worshipping the thing (and still in a smaller way do lol), cleaned it every other day and played it even though I never knew anything about electric. I ended up kind of focusing more on acoustic because I was making more progress there, but recently I've made up my mind to really make a serious attempt to learn to play my electric.

  So my question is this: WHERE DO I START?

Well really in some ways I've already started, looking up simple songs here on chordie and playing with little licks and things but Im really still just playing around. I have a pretty good basic knowledge of playing guitar but im still very uneducated.... I've heard people talking about learning scales. I know the G and C scale, but I'm not exactly clear on what exactly I ought to be learning?
Any kind of advice would be deeply appreciated..... thanks in advance,
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