I Hate It When Electronics Have A Mind of Their Own
@BelleStarr (61047)
United States
June 30, 2019 8:15pm CST
For some reason beyond my control, all my shortcuts moved from the bottom of my screen to the right-hand side. It took me 10 minutes to figure out how to get them back down below where they belong. It is so annoying. Did I ask them to move? No I did not.
The other day my iPhone decided that two of my apps belonged in a folder. I didn't put them there and they had nothing in common. One was my Verizon App and the other was my local news channel. I could not get them out of the folder. Thank goodness my daughter has an iPhone and she took them out of the folder for me while rolling her eyes that I couldn't figure this out!!
Sheesh doesn't she realize I grew up in a house with a "party line" and used to use a phone booth!! I'm OLD!! Does technology make you crazy too?
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@patgalca (18177)
• Orangeville, Ontario
1 Jul 19
I get the same reaction from my kids. My phone and computer are always doing weird things that I don't know how to fix. Sometimes I fix it, sometimes I ask my daughter. My one daughter won't help. She will say, "I don't know. I don't work for the company." That's her way of getting out of helping.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jul 19
Luckily my daughter is old enough to be past the "attitude" phase. lol She has teens of her own.
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@patgalca (18177)
• Orangeville, Ontario
1 Jul 19
@BelleStarr My daughter is 26. 
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jul 19
@patgalca Well then she is old enough to know mom has lots of other knowledge and give her a break lol
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
2 Jul 19
Exactly, so glad I had 3 just in case lol If they were out of town it could be catastrophic. lol
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
1 Jul 19
all the time and causes me such anxiety and yes my daughter rolls her eyes too and thinks I am quite dumb about it all. makes a person feel so small. Look at the things we had to teach them. We didn't get so annoyed either 
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
1 Jul 19
@BelleStarr mine too but she never admits it when I do know how to fix something
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jul 19
lol MY daughter knows that I am a font of knowledge so even though she laughs at me about these things she considers simple, she knows when it comes to many many things, mommy does know best.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jul 19
They do and it is like pretty soon they will take over the world, it's like HAL!!
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@LadyDuck (457918)
• Switzerland
2 Jul 19
@BelleStarr You are right and I am scared. Yesterday evening our TV turned OFF by itself, for a moment we were unable to do anything, my husband stand up to check the cables and we went on by itself and continued to play.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
2 Jul 19
Every time they come out with updates and new model numbers it is like learning it all over again.
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@simone10 (54189)
• Louisville, Kentucky
2 Jul 19
@BelleStarr I agree! It can be that way with computers too.
@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
1 Jul 19
some folks take to these new-fangled gadgets like ducks to water :( i'm with ya, party line, 'lways carried change'n my shoe'n case a date went 'wry (fer the pay phone), etc. we got to look folks'n the eye, shake their hand'n 'greement.
windows 10 makes me crazy. my phone 'tis not 'llowed to be more'n a phone'n the occasional pic snapper.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
2 Jul 19
lol Somedays I wish we never got into all this technology but at the end of the day I enjoy it.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
2 Jul 19
@BelleStarr i 'njoy some aspects, others not so much. loss 'f privacy fer one 's all apps (includin' this'un) seem to share yer info (e'en if'n such's jest location 'n what might interest ya) with other places fer $$. ticks me off somethin' fierce coz i've gremlin stoppers, don't track me thingies 'n e'en a i.p. addy that supposedly makes me anonymous. nope, none seem t work.
@kareng (54572)
• United States
4 Jul 19
@BelleStarr My hubby fixed mine this morning. I was on the laptop and had to get up and he took my computer and fixed it and waited for me to notice that he had fixed it. It only took about two minutes to see it.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
1 Jul 19
Oh are you from USA. Never thought that you had that party line before also. I thought it was only here in the Philippines. Yeah I experienced having a party line and it was annoying lnot a having a privacy cause your party line can listen to your conversation on your calls.
Anyway what kind of iPhone are you using.
Never experienced that yet on my phone or even on my computer. But I myself put onto folders different apps so I case easily find them. I gave each folder a name that I can easily trace what I'm looking for. But it's not hard to look for apps on folders. But it's hard I think if the gadget automatically do it for you as you may know how the gadget organize it.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
2 Jul 19
Most people in the United States in the 1950s had party lines.
@minx267 (15527)
• Hartford, Connecticut
5 Jul 19
@BelleStarr LOL. and if WE wanted to do oit.. we wouldn't be able to figure out HOW to do it... lol
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
2 Jul 19
NO, I don't know either what made it happen.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jul 19
We are indeed living in the digital era.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
1 Jul 19
I am having issues here at myLot My comment box widens and the comment travels in pieces not to forget the error message I get to see now and then.
My image folder plays up too. The same photo opens up a trillion times.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
2 Jul 19
Wow that is a lot of issues. I mostly don't have trouble with my lot just one-day last week I couldn't download a photo.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
3 Jul 19
I know, I think back to when I first got married and one of the first things I bought was a set of encyclopedia. No one has one these days.
@Aansh13 (11251)
• New Delhi, India
1 Jul 19
Well... I have been born in a technical era but still have zero percent knowledge. I get struck every now and then, and then have to ask help from my brother.
May be the reason is I am not a technology loving person, I still go by basics. But sad fact is, sometimes it's also the important one...
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jul 19
The thing is technology is constantly changing and with Windows 10 everything is so different, I was quite happy with Windows 7 lol
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@Aansh13 (11251)
• New Delhi, India
1 Jul 19
@BelleStarr
Yeah! Sometimes I feel the same
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@sophie09 (34246)
• Indonesia
1 Jul 19
@BelleStarr hahah thats what happening when my mom is hard to figure out something on her phone
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@Juliaacv (48389)
• Canada
1 Jul 19
I'd be dumb-founded if my smartphone did that. I am very technically challenged.
I can totally relate to the party-line thing, when the most complicated thing was having guests over who would ask why the phone had different rings to it, one long one short, two short, and so on. Technology like that I could handle and did handle.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jul 19
I have been using computers for 40 years they are my thing but Windows 10 is evil and some times IOS is as well lol
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
1 Jul 19
With me it's my landline telephone. I see it blinking to signal that a call has come in when I was out of the house. When I check, it's a call which is weeks, if not some months, old. This has happened several times. My interpretation is that my phone is bored because I don't use it much and therefore it plays with itself. :-)
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jul 19
lol We no longer have a landline but when we did it would do things like that, so annoying.
@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
1 Jul 19
Tech is an unreliable pain.
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@Scrapper88 (5957)
• United States
1 Jul 19
There is a lot of the new technology I do not understand.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jul 19
I think I am relatively comfortable with texting and Facetime and Facebook but sheesh, this is crazy stuff lol
