I am tired of smart solutions. Their smartness annoyes me during work
I am tired of smart solutions in social media and cloud services.
They are so smart, I´ve built a big animosity to much of them. Not all, but much of it. They annoy me. They all add smart solutions by default, so that if I complain, there is often tons of steps I have to make to get rid of them. Taking even more time from what I really set out to do in the beginning.
I am tired of smart solutions in social media and cloud services.
They are so smart that they annoy the hell out of me
Auto-correct is a perfect example. In a way its good its available, while on the other hand it is overwhelmingly annoying, as I spend as much time to correct the auto-correct, as I would actually had to simply write without interruption. Or for example Google Chrome. I close a tab with facebook, becuase I dont like to be disturbed by updates on my facebook wall, and simply work to earn some money to pay my bills. But with Chrome it is so smart… that even if I have closed the tab, I still get notifications in a small window popping up. Now, yes I could log out, and I do, but the convenience of simply closing the tab, made it quicker to view the facebook wall when I felt for it. So that solution is no longer available. A smart solution which Google developers thought they could make even smarter.
And I could list so many more situations, where the smart solutions are annoying me and disturbing me in my work. Often, when I have made settings changes for each service, they come out with a new update, disrearding my settings. A new policy they felt was needed.
Not very smart in my eyes. They haunt you like a phone salesperson who wont take seven No for an answer.
Edit: this was also published on my Linkedin Page and got some attention on Linkedin Pulse.
Stefan Lindblad
Illustrator, graphic designer & artist
I use computers and smart solutions everyday.
