Facebook Button?

You know what really Grinds My Gears? The Facebook Button on Phones. Our society needs everything we want at the exact moment we want it. That's a known fact. Instant Gratification. We are so conditioned to it that we hardly even notice it anymore unless our internet is running slow. It gets worse and worse with each generation because of the technology that is being bettered daily to make it easier to get the information and tangible items we want as soon as we want them. As if it wasn't already bad enough here comes the HTC Phone storming in with nothing other than a "Facebook Button" on the bottom of their new phone. Now we not only see the little blue symbol on our computer screens, television sets, billboards, posters, movies, and just about any other form of media one could think of, but now it is right there glowing in our faces every time we look at our phone. Every time a HTC user does something on there phone they deem "Facebook Worthy" they have the option to upload it instantly with the touch of a button for the whole world to see. No more filter, no more think time. What do you think the repercussions of adding instant technology like this to items that our world already revolves around will be? Is it overkill or is this the direction we have been going for a long time and our momentum is just going to keep on carrying us?

 http://clutchmagonline.com/2011/07/htc-launches-phone-with-facebook-button-love-it-or-leave-it-alone/

Phone problems

You want to know what really grinds my gears? Ok well even if you don't want too, I'm going to tell you anyway.. I have Sprint service. . I can't even tell you how many times my phone just randomly freezes, and at teh worst times! I'll be having a serious phone call that is extremely important that is time realted, and then my phone will just randomly freeze up for fifteen minutes and then work just fine again. Not only do I get ticked off, but the people I was talking to become pissed off as well because they think that I just hung up on them! Is there anything I can do to prevent my phone from randomly freezing?

Automate me

You know what really grinds my gears? Automated voices. No matter how much you need information they always seem to be talking at one word per minute, and always at the end they finally give you the options to go into an extended line. Why wouldnt they put the options at the beginning of the voice message, and put the store hours at the end. Honestly i doubt that most people are calling for store hours, especially during the day. Besides that why is it always a woman?"It's much easier to find a female voice that everyone likes than a male voice that everyone likes," said Stanford University Professor Clifford Nass. Apparently this all started back in WWII when women's voices stood out more over the radio.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/21/tech/innovation/female-computer-voices/index.html

Automate me

You know what really grinds my gears? Automated voices. No matter how much you need information they always seem to be talking at one word per minute, and always at the end they finally give you the options to go into an extended line. Why wouldnt they put the options at the beginning of the voice message, and put the store hours at the end. Honestly i doubt that most people are calling for store hours, especially during the day. Besides that why is it always a woman?"It's much easier to find a female voice that everyone likes than a male voice that everyone likes," said Stanford University Professor Clifford Nass. Apparently this all started back in WWII when women's voices stood out more over the radio.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/21/tech/innovation/female-computer-voices/index.html

Communication Breakdown.

You know what really Grinds My Gears? The breakdown of communication through technology.You all know what i am talking about... the text that you sent to someone that got taken the wrong way, or the facebook message that you sent to your girlfriend that was taken totally out of context. There is no redeeming yourself after that. The mind has already been made up, and honestly it takes a lot to try and change that. Even when my buddy, wasn't able to receive text messages, his girlfriend still got mad because he wasn't responding. Technology complicates all types of relationships due to words and conversations taken out of context. Think about it. When you read a text message you insert your own voice inflections, and excitement or gloominess. Either way you have to decode a message and add your own emotion to it. THis is what makes texting and emails so dangerous. the range of emotion that could be put into something like that ranges so much. I know ive gotten put in the doghouse multiple times by girlfriends because i didn't pick up on their, "hint," through texts that they were upset.

Lets switch it up and if you have something important to say...how about you just give someone a ring...

Facebook..."Friends"?

You know what really Grinds My Gears? Stalkers on Facebook. As if there weren't already enough concerns about weird, middle-aged creeps finding ways to communicate and locate our under-age children. Here comes Facebook that has practically interconnected the entire planet into one enormous online community. The problem is that usually we don't let the molesters hang out at the playground with the kids...or at the Chuckie Cheese. Now, these predators can pose as much younger individuals in order to gain access to people's lives, and there is no way to tell. Facebook pages can be completely fabricated in order to present desirable traits and characteristics that will attract the interest of certain individuals. In addition to this, there are also now apps that can be used to alert Facebook Friends where and what an individual is doing, at the exact time that they are doing it. This also opens the possibility to make them prime targets for these online predators. Adding someone you don't know on Facebook is a risk every time you do it. They might be genuine people that are randomly adding you or have a legitimate interest in you as a person. Or they might really like the way your living room furniture looks through your window from behind the bushes...

If You Hate Automated Voice Messaging Systems...Press 1

You know what really Grinds My Gears? Automated Message Handling Systems. It isn't bad enough that you have to mute the game and spend the better part of your Saturday or Sunday dealing with billing issues, but now you have to deal with a robot on the other end of the line which also happens to be an idiot. Companies have gotten away from traditional customer service representatives and gone over to Automated Message Handling Systems (AMHS). This revolutionary idea is supposed to increase efficiency and allow customers to handle their disputes with the company without having to engage an actual employee. All this has managed to do is leave customers screaming into the phone at an automated voice whose first language isn't even English. These systems were at least remotely bearable when all someone had to do was listen and press a button, but that wasn't enough. Now you actually have to talk to the system and hope that it interprets what you say correctly. As a last result, a customer can actually manage to pull a rep. off of their solitaire game if they have survived the bludgeoning and personal angst that is sure to be suffered from dealing with one of these systems for an afternoon. Is anyone else as fed up with these systems as I am? Do you think customer relationships and personal interaction is suffering?

Retype My Captcha

You know what really Grinds My Gears? Captchas. How many times have you failed to put in the correct password and ran into one of these bad boys? trying to read what they say and retype it is one of the most annoying things on the web. These bending, and poorly written letters are called Captchas. A Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person. Now i understand the security measures that are being taken into effect here but cmon man. Make these bad boys reasonable enough for us humans to read! Now i know that every single person who has used the internet has eventually, or will eventually stumble upon one of these guys and it will throw them for a loop. While sometimes they aren't terrible, most of the time they are difficult to read and unreasonable. There has to be a better way to test if the user is human or not...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

http://www.johnmwillis.com/other/top-10-worst-captchas/

There is truly nothing more that grinds my gears than when somebody is texting me and facebook chatting me at the same time..Why can't a person just pick one?? Someone will send me a text and then ill just respond to that person on chat adn then they won't respond on chat and will send me a text answering the question I posted on chat! That drives me nuts! Perhaps some people do it on purpose just to be irritating.. Or maybe they dont even realize they are doing it! I am not sure.. But that is definitely something that grinds my gears! Technology is great but too much of it can become very overwhelming!

There is nothing more that grinds my gears then when facebook freezes and im in the middle of trying to chat with a few people online. I am not exactly sure what causes it... Does anybody know? There are also other times where i willl press enter while im chatting with someone and instead of the Enter button sending the message for me like it is supposed to do, it will jump down a space as if to start a new paragraph! That drives me nuts!! I wish there was a better button to send messages insted of the enter button.. Maybe there is or maybe I just need to get better at typing!! I would like to know if anybody agrees with me on this!

Can My Blog Be Your Homepage?

You know what really Grinds My Gears? Pushy Websites. Not particularly the ones who want you to sign up for things, and add you on their email list...which is in fact annoying. Today i am talking about every websites obsession with making you their homepage! Now i know for them that would be great, because every time you open your web browser they would have free advertising and they can show you information without you even opening their site. Anytime you need to get on the internet, you have to go through their page...but honestly, whatever happened to getting a little Yahoo news every time i get on the internet. Now thats information. The point is...i dont want to put anything else as my homepage other than my default...that extra click onto facebook wont stress out my day because i had to move my mouse a couple inches. Now there is nothing wrong with setting facebook or myspace on your homepage, but it really grinds my gears when websites like facebook are way too pushy. If i want you as my homepage...I'll let you know.

http://www.businessinsider.com/annoying-things-in-tech-2011-8#facebook-needs-to-calm-down-with-the-im-asking-for-our-cell-and-trying-to-get-us-to-set-facebook-as-our-home-page-7

World of Wireless

You know what really Grinds My Gears? Slow Wireless Internet Connections. We live in a society where we have to have everything we want exactly when we want it. We can try and deny this, but the simple fact is that instant gratification has taken over and completely crippled patience as a virtue. When you combine this with probably the greatest technological advancement ever, the internet, one starts to understand where frustrations can arise. There are two different types of cable modems that dish our wireless connection: G and N. G has a standard listed indoor range of about 125 ft. and about 460 ft. outside. N has a standard listed indoor range of about 250 ft. and about 820 ft. outside. The problem with these distances are that any interference what-so-ever can cut the wi-fi signal down to 50%. In some extreme cases the signal won't go over 25 ft.! What are your experiences with slow wi-fi signals and have you ever tried something completely out of the box to try and boost the signal to make your internet faster?

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/47819.aspx
http://www.pcmech.com/article/the-truth-about-physical-wireless-range-between-g-and-n/