We necessitate Gizmodo ’s readers about their biggest frustration with technology today . Your answers were sassy , poignant , sad , funny , and so compelling that we had to compile them .
Nailed it
Ovy wrote :
Twitter . Very few people are sufficiently brilliant to say anything worthwhile in 140 character . It breeds an egotism that most people are not worthy of . It ’s sadder still when politician habituate it to make a stand on a nuanced issue .
We couldn’t agree more
fiendishmuffin wrote :
contend measure in issue category . I ’m exceedingly excited about the potential of fresh homes and Virtual Reality … but I ’m terrified to buy anything until there ’s a clear “ winner ” in either space . I understand that ’s how capitalist economy works … but still … it sucks sometimes .
fgb41 wrote :
Differing or deficiency of standards . Maybe you could also bemuse in that the standards change every 6 months . 10 years ago every computer had a cd ride and some usb pick . Now , we have so many different plugs / voltages / etc .
Also maybe the worldwide “ throwaway ” or disposable tech . Used to buy things that endure 10 - 20 years . My parents finally upgraded the phone in their sleeping accommodation after 26 old age … But my blasted cell earphone stool out every 2 as it gets slower and slower . Computers start slow down down the minute they re made it seems like . And with all the other raw things go on , a 5 year old computer is bound on “ old ” today .
In the end its all just a horse / carrot thing . Technology will never stop move , its impossible to ever get ahead of it or keep up with it .
Let’s get lost
verb - a - noun wrote :
This is more about me than about technology , but I hate the crutch of have single-valued function .
I do not have the willpower to learn where anything is any longer . I spread out map to go anywhere that is n’t already part of my bit . I could just as easily project out where something is if I thought about it for five minute or ask someone and maybe learn a matter or two about them / the place I ’m going to / the worldly concern around me . There used to be conversations about what route to take and why to take it , now it ’s all about Google function .
The economics of things
DragonBreath wrote :
What do I hate about Technology ?
That I do not have enough money to buy each and every new widget I require as soon as it appears on Gizmodo .
Of course , I would have about six laptop computer , and ten HD boxes for TV , and I would need a new shed to store all the games , and I would have accounts with at least three dissimilar wireless providers , and … ..
I just involve to win the Lottery .
hermtownhomy wrote :
Be careful what you wish for . I do n’t have inexhaustible finances to grease one’s palms anything I desire , but I am single and make a good living , so I can grease one’s palms most of what I desire . I have touch techno - saturation . I have made a conscious determination to quit buying new gadgets for awhile . The stuff I have is a Brobdingnagian meter suction . Mostly because thing do n’t act the way they are supposed to . There is always some widget , some app , my phone , my information processing system , something , that take care . It worked yesterday , but today it does n’t work for some understanding . Always something that involve to be reset , rebooted , resetup . Always something that needs an update . I desire to play a plot on my playstation for illustration , maybe 15 or 20 min before I go to seam .
Nope . 15 minutes of dicking around with a playstation update , then 10 more minutes with an update for the plot . Fuck it , I just did this 2 weeks ago . I ’m going to bed . I ’m always on some forum or web site looking for focussing because I forgot how to congeal it up . Of naturally , I have to look up my parole to do that . material in my railway car . poppycock in my home . Stuff at work . For the most part , none of these things are overly intellectually taxing on an individual fundament , but take together , I feel like I am at chroma . Too many gadgets , too many passwords , too many directions and instruction and operating procedures to retrieve . And stuff should just work . There are no moving parts . There is nothing to get out . If it worked yesterday , it should work today , but it does n’t , so this thing that was hypothecate to make my life more commodious is sucking meter from life .
Pending Approval wrote :
I hate how people look down their nozzle at you if you do n’t have the latest and greatest art object of tech available . How does my interchange top telephone hurt you ? It does what I require my phone to do and it does it very well . I do n’t need to surf the internet on my phone . I do n’t need GPS on my phone . I do n’t need to watch video on my telephone . I do n’t need to dally games on my phone . I do n’t involve to take picture show / record video with my earphone . I do n’t ask to text on my speech sound . I need a phone that will allow me to make phone calls and receive sound calls . And that ’s it . Why should I replace a perfectly good firearm of equipment that does exactly what I desire it to do just because you do n’t like it ? Why do n’t you mind your own God damned job ?
Where even am I
dave_d_84 save :
I hate how a good majority of people are incognizant of their milieu when using technology . It ’s mostly people walking around attend at their cellular telephone earphone when they ’re about to take the air into something ( i.e. : me , who is actually cognizant of my surroundings ) . I ’ve also encountered right smart too many people weaving in and out of lanes and fluctuating speeds while using cell phones during push . It ’s shivery , actually .
I was promised a jetpack
synthozoic compose :
Oh sure , there are Lot of small irritating thing that I ’m sure everyone will mention here and I have no disagreement with any of them . But , the main , number one , thing that I detest about technology ?
It advances too lento .
I ’m a strong technological singularity skeptic . After hearing about the idea in 1988 , I pass a major portion of the 1990s hope it would come reliable but still no sudden take off . My reason for skepticism areoutlined in this book .
Having arrived at this legal opinion as a consummate nonexpert , I ’m still distressed with it .
Soon I will be 52 and , ease up the crawl of medical advances , it ’s improbable I ’ll live past my 90 . And I am let down with this reality .
Design better
thatguyalex write :
I hate that thing that are obvious to me as conception pick are almost never useable so I have to live with an imbecile way of doing something . Take Windows 8.1 , why do I need to alter files to get the PC to just bring up right to the damn start fare ? Who said “ You know what masses want , to lumber into a hotmail account to start their computer ” . I hate that I ca n’t get rid of crapware on my mobile phone and need to bury the icon in a folder somewhere . I hate that tech company recall I lease my own machine rather than bought it .
In unforesightful , I hate that folly and avarice very often get in the manner of my hold the user experience I should have .
More than the sum of our ads
WolvenOne wrote :
General invasiveness slash objectionableness . It feel like so many technologies treat you as if you were nothing more than a revenue reference , the overall effect is that it feels like there ’s an unctuous car - salesman sit just over your articulatio humeri .
Hey , view this ad , hey , you ’ll love this add - on to this biz , hey we can sell tracking data to advertisers if you let us chase your action . Etc etc , and so on and so forth . I do make that companies need to make money , and I do n’t begrudge their desire to do so . However so many of the business concern models I ’ve seen pop up in late year just leave a horrible taste in my sass .
Put the phone down. It’ll be OK
Faslane wrote :
run low somewhere and seeing everyone clutching a gadget as if their liveliness count on it . ESPECIALLY restaurant , it ’s annoying as hell . Relax and have a squeamish meal hoi polloi , you went there to do so , so put the phones away . AND , concerts….unless you ’re using it when the performing artist says to unhorse up the place or something , put the damn thing aside . We do n’t need any “ look at me at a concert ” selfies .
Fallsdownstairs write :
I was at a Rush concert Tuesday and an asshat nearby kept record videos . It was out of focus and wash out the whole time . The kicker is that it took him over TWO HOURS to finally work off the fucking flash . If I were being alight up by the ostentation in front of him , there would have been an incident , but the multitude in front of him somehow just shrugged it off .
RyanKealy wrote :
seroki wrote :
I ’d have to say my expectant pet peeve about technical school is on the nose what you describe . Texting and e-mail and facebook are all fine and dandy , but if you ’re out with people be with the people not on your phone . A friend of mine always demand me why guys do n’t ask her out more than once , she does n’t seem to interpret that interpersonal communication is the destination of go away out and getting to know someone , not the next thing on twit - face - gram … So of course I demonstrate what she does after enjoin her , she said I was being rude and an asshole . I have n’t heard from her since ; this was a month ago , my sprightliness is significantly less dramatic .
I think I won out on this one …
R U OK?
TBone45 write :
I detest how the overwhelming majority of people but do n’t realize engineering , and make supposal about what could or should happen or what is easy . “ Hey , can you fix my computer ? ” “ What ’s incorrect with it ? ” “ I dunno , its slow , you know computers ca n’t you just fix it ? ” “ Spend hours troubleshooting the reckoner that you jazz up because you do n’t know how to expend it in the first place ? Ya , sure . Go jazz yourself . ”
I hate when I ’ve spend 5 yr get word the artwork of picture taking , then take really good moving-picture show with a decent entry stratum mirrorless camera , and everyone assume the camera must be wicked good and they want to cognize where they can get one . Ya , its the fuckin camera , here ya go , go make magic you cunt .
I detest that my acquaintance who is a Massachusetts State Trooper last hebdomad ask me if I had a ‘ charger thing ’ for his Kindle because its been beat for a calendar month . I call for him if he knew what “ ecumenical ” meant , visualize as he has multiple USB devices that apply USB courser and he looked at me like I was the idiot .
I hate how products are purposely designed to get bad and break down over sentence . I detest the fact that I got so brainsick at my Droid Razr HD that I literally break it in one-half . Into two pieces , with my bare hands because my baby was cry in the back seat and it , for some reason , just make up one’s mind to not load Google Maps when I was in traffic and did n’t know where I was going . Fuck that telephone set .
I detest the fact that I am a history instructor in high school and no one cares about chronicle because they can just get it on their phones . Ya , that ’s why we study chronicle you fucking cretin , to memorize dates . Not to learn from mistakes that are the only literal thing that can mold our future . But ya , just google it you little douche bag . I detest the fact that out of 30 people in one of my classes , 9 of them did n’t capitalize their name on the cover of a inquiry report . I hate the fact that over 20 of them do n’t recognize what the “ Tab ” Francis Scott Key is for .
I ’d wish to see a scientific subject area done on felicity levels of people with rich amounts of technology and those without . I have a feeling I lie with who ’s happier .
A world of Glassholes
Grand Moff Talkin ’ write :
I detest that we ’re speedy to assume technical school for our personal use yet sluggish to adopt it for professional use . My troupe has just now range out tablets for field surveyors after five class of studying , yet everyone involved in the decision process is on their 2nd or third iPad .
I detest that we can give up bandwidth well for AT&T or Sprint but open up frequencies for emergency services or for Amtrak ’s train safety systems is a grueling act of bureaucratism .
I detest that Google Glass died because was marketed to and champion by douchebags who used it to annoy bar patrons and not marketed to designer , engineers , or given to police officers who could credibly use a head information processing system with a tv camera during their dealings closure .
I hate that Microsoft Hololens ’ crowing wow factor is playing Mindcraft on coffee bean mesa and not the guy rope who was designing a practical bike .
Overall , I detest that we ’ve arrived in a futuristic sci - fi domain and we ’re all using tech like selfish asshats .
wraith825 write :
Well , you already hit it on the head with people being so goddamn preoccupied with their telephone set when there ’s other events plump on ( I avert meeting with certain multitude because it ’s vexing when they ’re just stick by on their phone ) , so I wo n’t touch on that .
I guess this whole dick measuring and bragging with new engineering . Whether it ’s humblebrag ( “ cat I ’m sorry I ’m late . My Apple iWatch was set to Pacific Time . ” ) or straight up vaporing ( “ Dude this 360 is awing , you should bribe one . ” ) or loudly insulting you on your passe ’ earpiece so the the great unwashed at the register and check line can hear and experience how far behind you are while your admirer is on the precipice of technical modification . It ’s not a fucking competition , and if it is allow me out of it .
Otto Lipschitz wrote :
This year I have been detect hoi polloi playing media on their phones in public without earphone . Always at max intensity with crackling verbaliser . On the train , in eatery … when did this tabu crumble ?
Pick a side, any side
hippocheese14 wrote :
Quick dismissal cycles and choosing teams .
AMD or Nvidia ? Should I hold back a couple of months for a price cut or get the next - gen ?
BB10 , iOS , Windows , or Android ? Do I want Snapchat ? Do I want an excellent camera ? Do I want a physical keyboard ?
There ’s just too many options and the competition is so close , yet each have horrifying compromise .
YASS
chivenation wrote :
The affair that bugs me the most is the lingo , made - up words , improperly used words , and horrible grammar .
This. This. This. This. This.
p51d007 wrote :
I think it is really lowbred , say you walk into a local 7 - 11 case entrepot , and someone is standing in line , they get up to the counter to make a purchase , while on the telephone set the full time , all ignore the salesclerk and everyone around them , and you have to mind to their crap ! Or , in a restaurant , and their phone rings as the waiter / waitress is test to take their order of magnitude . You just need to catch their headphone and nail it .
Nick write :
AUTO - CORRECT ! ! !
Battery anxiety
I give a considerable amount of my daily life to maintaining “ charged ” condition on too many assault and battery - powered devices . Sometimes I will buy an inferior product only on the basis that it simple plugs into a wall socket . Truth .
We really don’t want to see what you’re eating. No, really
nerfezoriuq wrote :
I detest how mass are haunt with taking selfies or picture of their food . Just savour the damn time . Also , at concert , everyone is just enter the show or have icon rather than taking in the experience . I might just be hang out with the awry the great unwashed but it seems like everyone is obsess with sharing(showing off ) .
Touché
Realinfmom drop a line :
I detest that so many people think the great unwashed my long time are clueless luddites . I get my Medicare card this year and I ’ll believably use it for the first time to get my foot removed from some Gen - X’er ’s rear goal .
Not so connected
RobGronkowski ’s PartyBusDriver write :
I hate that there is no refinement or nuance online . I hate that there is no real way to express facial or dead body speech . I hate how idealouges have encroach themselves on both sides of every theme claiming to be on the right-hand side with God in their box . I detest that anyone with a thought no matter how stupefied hateful uneducated or asinine has a platform to spread it .
No escape
immrama87 write :
I hate that it seems like every class there are fewer and few things that I can own that do n’t imply a screen ( or some kind of digital fundamental interaction ) . I ’m all for applied science moving onward , but I also like have the ability to get away from it . The matter I worry about is that finally we ’re going to get ourselves into a technical dystopia where your watch , boob tube , earpiece and even the fabric of your jean are all competing to let you know that someone you have n’t babble out to in a decade just had some ( probably whole insightful ) opinion on Facebook .
Smash patent trolls
Username667 write :
package patents – patent around a ‘ affair ’ is a circumstances easier to pronounce whether something else is the same or not , software patents are utilise this ‘ computer hardware ’ mentality against something that is n’t ‘ real ’ . I ’m all for exclusivity for hard work and ideas , but put a mandatory 1 or 2 yr limit on a package patent and the market will explode with thought and better manner of doing affair – it will also see an remnant to patent trolling and newer ideas being contribute to market quicker .
Kids these days
4thdeskonright write :
That anyone over 40 think that , because all adolescent are constantly looking at their telephone set , teenagers are even remotely useable using actual , rich technology . I cultivate in a 1 - to-1 high school where the school issues each student a computer . Most students , and I know this is a generalization , do n’t know how to properly typewrite , ca n’t use productiveness software , and do n’t have any concept of etiquette with technology . A good 20 % of my in - class clock time is learn how to use tech properly . For example , today we had to have a discussion about why it ’s underbred to have your earpiece in during a discussion … .
DM wrote :
For me is when I ’m at folk events , all my cousin-german ’ kids are strapped to a screen . 2 years prior they would be running around and playing with each other . Now they show up and plop up on the couch . I ask my full cousin do they do any outside activity or any other physical activity . One of my uncle say they do , so it ’s adept , but every time I see cousin ’s youngster they ’re couch potatoes .
On the same note , the ones that are now about 10 , who grew up with means more fun thing in technology around me still do n’t roll in the hay how these twist influence . They carry things to act all the fourth dimension and not bother to realize how these workaday machine they grow accustom to work . When I was at their age , if nothing work on I appear it up and round the problem myself . It sadden me that in the geezerhood of hyper awareness , a hatful of kid do n’t look it up themselves .
But hey, parents, leave those kids alone:
SuburuForester write :
No freedom from my parents during college . I am emphatically less mature after college than they were at the same eld because I had them calling me about every day
Did you try turning it off and back on again?
mva5580 wrote :
I detest how much other mass kvetch about technology , that ’s what I hate . Everyone ’s lives are altogether controlled / consumed by it , yet so few citizenry actually put any form of effort into learning how it works / why it is nowhere almost as easy to work as they make it out to be .
That Guy From Over Yonder save :
But so often technical school does n’t work right on out of the gate . Things like apps that just dash when they open up ( and musical accompaniment from company like vine that consider their inability to fix a problem the problem successfully resolved ) or the bluray player that wo n’t turn off but gets pay heed up on the exit screen . I ’ve had many devices and apps just give out to perform their radix function . Some of it is poor design , some of it risky fabrication , some of it is gadget incompatibility , as well as the common bad steganography .
This rush to be first and new is overtaking the motivation to make thing that ferment decent every ( or most every ) clock time . Companies ( even apple and google ) do n’t really stand behind their products .
The more things change…
tafkakenn wrote :
Maybe I ’m catch old and lose touch with technology , but I do n’t think it ’s that since I have a 3-D printing machine and I ’m really excited about what s about to happen with VR . But I ’ve never been that involved with my Iphone and Ipad other than it ’s a commodious means to carry a photographic camera , photos and mags almost anywhere . Texting and constant Facebook updates etc are not my thing .
I ’m always amused by the fact that we move on from telegraphy in the 1800s to phones where you actually find out a persons voice , and yet in the 21st century we are essentially telegraphing from a glowing minuscule box . Always seems like astep back to me . Not to bring up I feel communication acquisition are bad than they were 20 yrs ago .
Not so pretty
GabeDias publish :
Functionality being set away for minimalist design is what ’s presently THE WORST contribution to consumer technologies . Just short of a clean panelling of glass , there is less and less to the outer appearance and interfacing options to all of our devices . We ’ve abandoned ports , buttons , visible verbaliser , practical biotechnology , seems of any sort ( which makes repairing or upgrade unacceptable ) to undivided panic button port . I ’d really like a see a gimmick where I get to take how I want to interface with it . mayhap it wo n’t have that Apple - similar , ultra clean-living , super simple , “ you ’re too dumb to figure this out for yourself ” elegance , but it will work well , because it ’s a putz to used .
TL;DR
Tom wrote :
So much technology revolve around making the average someone ’s liveliness easy . But what does easier do to us ? study have shown attending bridge are at an all time downcast ( about 15 to 20 minute ) due to the instant gratification supplied by modern devices which is in reality affecting the teaching organization . That ’s correct , technology is making us dumber and the corporate self command needed to whelm it is impossible . As technology gets smarter mankind will get dumb .
Remember when
Taxidermy JONES wrote :
I find the moments when I ’m genuinely relish myself ( as controvert to being just not - bored ) are all low tech . Like playing wag with champion or getting drunk at a baseball biz . I wonder sometimes if people did n’t have an alternative to stay in and watch Netflix if I ’d get to savor more moments like that .
Coronal Shadow wrote :
Yup . My preferent times of year are when I can forget tech ( and body of work , and pretty much everything else … ) and go climb a mountain ( snowboard in wintertime , hiking / picture taking in summer ) .
Framing this on my wall
Organized Chaos save :
I hate that people would rather endure there and record something bad take place to someone rather than trying to help . They ’re always looking for their 15 minutes of YouTube renown .
And the fact that social media , namely facebook , has change everyone ’s mindset . First , they think the most mundane shit they do & say is special enough that everyone else cares about it . But then they ’re illusion of grandeur is fueled by everyone who pretend to care about it , so they keep posting dumb shite . One big vicious rhythm . And it has also made people think they have a right field to violate the seclusion of others . I ’m a secret someone and I keep all photos of myself & my Word off of facebook / the internet . But it ’s changed the way mass treat others so much that they retrieve they have the right to put up other people ’s icon to their own pages without consent . When we go to family gatherings , I hate that I now have to inform citizenry that we do not want our photos posted online , because they most definitely will . No one guide photos to keep as memento anymore . They only desire them so they can send them .
One last thing . I detest that everywhere we go , whether it ’s a restaurant , a MD ’s office staff , wherever , everyone ( adult & children alike ) have their noses bury in their mobile devices . Reminds me of that Star Trek : TNG sequence , “ The Game . ”
Granddad the Snugglebunny wrote :
I hate that people have to record everything . I go for those like / favs / upvotes are deserving countenance someone die on the sidewalk alternatively of using your sound to call the police .
Tattooing this on my body
Cletus Van Damme :
There is only one matter I hate about technology : just because it ’s leisurely to always be connected does not intend that I should be expected to be connect all the time . Sometimes I just do n’t feel like respond to every message , then the transmitter acts like I ’ve taken aside their first born .
That0nePerson write :
I hate how social media has enabled widespread shaming culture . Mad at your X ? Post their nude photograph . Somebody posted an insensitive selfie ? deal it all over chirrup and Facebook so that chiliad of people can tell that person why they ’re terrible . Make certain they lose their job . verify they can never be google without that picture showing up .
It ’s not that I think all behavior on the cyberspace is okay . mass should be told when something they said or did is offensive for whatever reason . But the cyberspace ’s response is just over the top . We ’re human . We make error . We can memorize from those error and grow . There ’s so much agitation over vituperate citizenry over their misunderstanding . Our engineering science may have germinate , but our blood lecherousness certainly has n’t .
General Disarray :
i detest that everything risky that happens is now instantly made public . sometimes i lack the days of pre - internet and smartphone cameras when , while you had a general idea of the craziness in the world , and the internet news reported some of it , but you did n’t really bed how extensive it was . masses b half-baked .
The insightful reply here establish my favoriteChatroomever . Whenever people bitch about commenters on the internet — nerveless taradiddle , bro , do you even comment?—I destine to undulate my centre , refrain from punch them in the smartphone and direct them to this spot .
You all knocked this one out of the park , but tell us if your own personal tech pet peeve did n’t get covered . What makes you mad in this world where we ’re all plug in ?
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