Absolutely Hate Technology

My pet hate are telephones. I hate having to talk on the phone. Only thing worse than having to sit here at home and answer the phone, is mobiles. I believe it's something like 96% of the uk population have one, but i went as long as i could without joining. In the end i felt as if i was almost forced into getting a mobile. These days if you want to do anything they ask for mobile number ............. opening a bank a/c  ......  buying things ....... shopping onlibe ...... making a doctor or hospital appointment.......  the list could go on and on. When i use to say i've only a landline most of the time nothing can be done. I krrp my mobile only for emergencies, i wont give the number out  in case someone phoned me while i was sitting on a bus or in the supermarket shopping. I tell people they don't need it, they have my home number, whatever they want can wait until i'm in the comfort of my own home.

Posted a rant about frustation with web forms, but decided to remove it

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Thanks for the advice, I did finally manage to track down the problem - Windows update. Seems on the install disk I have, it doesn't pick up updates, you have to install an update to windows update first, then set networking up.

It is a bit faster to boot and power down, was still grinding to a halt, but that was down to windows update again. Seems to have settled itself down now. 

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Just an addendum to my last post:  I see that it crossed with your last (MattBucks) - all I'd add is that my "Technophobe" username was chosen without irony!

Dear MattBucks,

I'm following my last post up wth an apology. I could have edited it or deleted it, but I'll let the history stand.  I can see, having re-read my post of 14th May, that I was unnecessarily confrontational.  I apologise for that.  I ask you to please understand that I have genuinely been going through a great deal of hassle with online form bullsh!t just lately, and I'd also ask you to please try to open your mind enough to let in the possibility that there are people out here who aren't cretins, but who genuinely find dealing with online forms extremely hard work, unless those forms are designed to be as easy to navigate and as self-explanatory as possible.

I don't want to make enemies on this forum. I see that you are relatively new on here, and I can appreciate that finding a response such as mine could be upsetting.  I sincerely apologise if that was the case - and I also declare that I should have known better. Please take it on trust that I've been going through a lot of emotional stuff just lately, and almost everything that doesn't seem to help me seems like the last straw!

To conclude, I ask that you please give serious thought to the matter of how people with different ways of thinking perceive the whole issue of forms, whether online or just on paper.  I, personally, am fine with paper forms, no matter how comlicated. In fact, I derive a certain pleasure from tackling them. But I know that a lot of people find them very troublesome - and I'm one of them!

I find online stuff in general at least slightly troublesome (part of the reaon is that I fear that one wrong click will mean the whole thing crashes and I've not only wasted half an hour but also not even learned how to avoid wasting the next half hour), and at most, exceedingly troublesome. To the point where I have honestly smashed one laptop beyond repair (the best one I've ever owned as it happens!), and have come very close to the same with the two that have followed it.

If you can't get your head around such weirdness, that's fine - you just don't suffer from this kind of problem. But please accept that at least some people do (I doubt that I'm the only one - but even if I am....!).

I get that you know your way around computers, and I get that a lot of folk with ASDs do. But please appreciate that, as the cliche goes, if you've met one person with Asperger's, you've met one person with Asperger's!

Drop the 'I'm an expert approach' and we've got a deal!

So you think all online forms are the same do you MattBucks?  I'm not an idiot, and I have filled in plenty of online forms in my time, eg: for DVLA stuff, local authority planning comments etc.  These have all ben at least reasonably self-explanatory. I can;t copy you the ones I'm referring to here as they're confidential and have soemthing built into them that won;t let them be copied. If I could, you'd see what I mean I'm sure!  Of course, some people must understand them but whatever I've tried has produced nothing other than an auto reply informing me that I need to fill it in again (no hint as to what I'm supposed to have done wrong).

I'm sure that with your vastly superior knowledge you'd have no trouble.

If it's any consolation, I hate electonic / digital technology too.  I won;t have a mobile. I only reluctantly got this laptop and got on the internet but I have to admit it does have its uses. It can be an incredible time waster too though, and I'm not very good at avoiding that happening.

Some companies seem to use technological methods for the hell of it. I can no longer work for one, because it now does everything - I do mean everything - via stupid online forms that I don't understand and do my head in so much I refuse to btoher with them.