What Does My Phone Know That I Don't?!

The other day, I typed a message on my smartphone to a friend about exercise. If you have the auto-text feature on your phone, you may be familiar with what happened next…

As I typed “exercise” the auto-text replaced it with “exhausted.” I giggled and retyped my message – again, “exhausted” popped up. Now slightly annoyed, I typed in exercise for the third time, only to be told that the word I really wanted is apparently “exhausted.”

It made me stop and think…is my phone trying to tell me something? Does it know something I don’t? Are these holiday pounds really okay or does my phone just not want to suffer through Zumba one more time?

There are entire websites dedicated to goofy auto-text messages like this, and they are good for a laugh or two. But it does make you stop and think – how many times have we sent a message, either by phone or in person, that we just didn’t think through?

Being a spontaneous communicator famous for talking on the fly, I know the result is not always funny.  And so I’m not ready to turn the annoying auto-text feature off as it has saved me more often than not.  Now, if I can just figure out how to develop a human-based app to help us avoid putting our foot in our mouth…

- Allison Blankenship, http://www.allisonspeaks.com,  http://www.UpsideTheBook.com
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Comments

[andrea]

So, did you listen to smartphone and rest?