Tech

     I have huge problems with tech, I almost gave up joining here as I kept running into problems about codes and passwords. I can use basic email and just about cope with some shopping, like the big forresty place, but some I find overwhelming. I don't know how to use a smart phone I can just about cope with a stupid one, but not well. Everyone seems to think that everyone else is comfortable with tech and that 'it's intuitive', who's intuition are they using? I can't seem to find any help and everyone seems to think more tech is the answer. I'm starting to get very excluded from the world as everything moves towards smart phones, mobile banking, do they really want me to crash the worlds entire banking system? That's the other thing with tech, I go near it, it goes wrong, the list of things I've crashed gets ever longer, sometimes I only have to stand next to something for it to stop working. I'm so fed up with stupid answers when I try and explain my problems, from people talking loudly and slowly to me, (my response was I'm autistic not deaf or stupid), or laughing, getting angry, trying to start me off at a place well above my understanding, like 'you have to decide if you want Apple or Android?' Most often they just sort of drift away, before I sprout a second head or something. One of my learning difficulties is that some bits of information go straight to long term memory storage without ever passing through short term memory storage, I'm told that without spending time in short term storage, I have no synaptic links created, so I can't retrieve information. For example I know I've done C&P dozens of times, but I can't remember how to do it, everytime is like the first, of course it dosen't help when I lose stuff, like an essay or something. Tech causes me more meltdowns than almost anything else

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  • I understand technology well enough, but I still have problems with it.

    It just doesn't work properly half the time. Really frustrating.

  • Tell me about it.

    Computers definetely like to throw a wobbly when you are using them for soemthing with a deadline, and mobiles are just rubbish, half the conversation half the time. At least the landline WORKED.

  • Then BT had an utterly silly idea a while ago about ditching landlines and only offering landline service over the internet - it would be more in thier line to give up their silly practice of having call centres in India for customer service and tech support, same with mobile phone companies and other companies as well - if a company is offering service to a U.K. customer base, they should only be allowed to have a U.K. call centre only, not redirect the calls outside of the U.K. which is how people get scammed 

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  • Then BT had an utterly silly idea a while ago about ditching landlines and only offering landline service over the internet - it would be more in thier line to give up their silly practice of having call centres in India for customer service and tech support, same with mobile phone companies and other companies as well - if a company is offering service to a U.K. customer base, they should only be allowed to have a U.K. call centre only, not redirect the calls outside of the U.K. which is how people get scammed 

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