One of the biggest problems that exists in the world right now (in the technology industry, at least) is that Google and other advertisement-driven companies sometimes can’t stop soliciting a service or product after it has already been purchased by a member of the target demographic.
The person or company that finds a reasonable solution to this problem is going to make a disgusting amount of money.
I very much dislike it when computers attempt to correct what I type. Sometimes it can be handy, but other times it can be infuriating. Texting on a cell phone is of course the best example of this: almost every single text message is altered by the phone’s computer software in one form or another. This is something that I only recently noticed: I had disabled texting on my phone in the past because I didn’t want to give certain people yet another way to selectively communicate with me (and further empower these same people to get away with the obnoxious behavior towards myself and others that comes along with such selective and one-sided discourse). Eventually I relented, but only because you can’t be part of a baseball team in the present day and not use text messaging.
The experience so far hasn’t been too bad. I completely ignore people who really should be calling or visiting me and instead use text messaging almost exclusively for work- and baseball-related activities. What really drives me up the wall, however, is that every time I type in a word that could potentially be deemed offensive, my phone changes it to something different. “Shit” is changed to “shot”, “hell” is changed to “he’ll”, and even “fart” is changed to “cart”. Needless to say, I shut this feature off as soon as I was able to dig up the associated setting on my phone.
But autocorrect isn’t always so bad to have around, and some people clearly need it more than others. An unfiltered Google search for “comptuer”, a common misspelling that typically occurs from typing too fast on a keyboard, yields the following results:
Interestingly, the first entry is from LinkedIn for the Top 15 Comptuer Programmer profiles 
. Apparently this spelling error occurs frequently enough that the site automatically generates a separate category for a special group of programming professionals who are very impatient typists:
This misspelling is so common, in fact, that some asshole in the Cayman Islands thinks that he’s going to get $15,000 for the domain name COMPTUER.COM:
The sad thing about all this is that we wouldn’t have most of these problems if people learned to spell, didn’t get so bent out of shape over strong or vulgar language, and were more considerate and earnest when communicating with others. Is autocorrect going to help us with these problems and eventually save us from ourselves? Only time will tell….
On a related note, ICANN really sucks.
I’m not sure if this still works here since I am using ChadPress instead of Facebook, but I guess it can’t hurt to try. Also, I have included some of my responses in the event that it increases my chances of winning.
THANK YOU, MARK ZUCKERBERG [who?], for your forward-thinking generosity! [What did he do?] And congrats on becoming a dad! [Huh?!]
Mark Zuckerberg [oh right... the Grand Poobah of privacy and productivity erosion] has announced that he is giving away $45 billion [with a "B"?] of Facebook stock. [Hhmmmm... sounds a little fishy to me.] What you may not have heard [no I haven't, must you go on?] is that he plans to give 10% of it away to people like YOU and ME! [Really..? What a dumbass!] All you have to do is copy and paste this message into a post IMMEDIATELY and tag 5-10 of your friends. [Or irritated acquaintances that don't really like you.] At midnight PST, Facebook will search through the day’s posts and award 1000 people with $4.5 million EACH [that's really a lot of money] as a way of saying thank you for making Facebook such a powerful vehicle for connection and philanthropy [and watered down relationships].
I hope someone I know gets a piece of the pie [blueberry or apple?] — let me know if you do!!! [Yeah right, asshole!]
In case you’re wondering what this is about, you can read about it at The Washington Post and many other fine news agencies (that apparently have nothing better to report).
Since all of the good .COMs have been used up, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (or ICANN for short) decided it was finally time to give the world some options. As one would naturally expect, .wtf was chief among the new top-level domain names to be made available to aspiring registrants and was added in 2014 alongside others such as .ink, .ninja, .kim, and .sexy. Supposedly, .ink is for tattooing, .ninja is for people with special expertise and skills, .kim is for people named Kim (huh?), and .sexy is for really good looking people. Of course, the name .wtf was taken from an improper Internet acronym that would never be repeated on this website.
Here is a glancing view of the World Wide Web in 2015:
It’s so nice to see the Internet taking bold steps forward. Personally, I can’t wait to register the domain CHADSPACE.POS as soon as it becomes available. I just hope that somebody doesn’t snap it up before I do!!