We've all heard of someone who's sent a stupid or silly message on the Internet. You know the type of thing: sending a messages to a mailing list instead of an individual, complaining about your boss on Facebook when they're a friend on their, or even sending your love letter to the wrong Sam in your address book.
Sometimes the mistake is noticed a slit second after its too late.
The problem is that communication is instantaneous. Imagine if Facebook was a magazine, it wouldn't work but lets just go with it, and you had to post messages via snail mail. You'd have to write the message, find an envelope, find a stamp, and remember to take it with you when you leave the house. Odds are that you will think better of it after a couple of days. When you've forgotten to post the letter for the third time you might realised that the hurtful letter is a bad idea and bin it.
So I propose that computers should have an 'Are you sure about this?' setting. Google already has some features of this nature. If you say 'attachment' in a message but forget to attach the document it'll remind you.
So how about this you write an email and when you click send a message comes up. 'Did you mean to use the word ***', 'Your message, Subject: 'Itchy Bum' is about to be sent to 'Work mailing list' is this what you meant?
On the other hand maybe people should just be a little more careful. This is not a phenomenon that's going to go away. And if you do hate work so much you feel the need to complain online here's my advice.
Make sure your boss won't see it.
If you want to risk it keep it PG. I don't think you could get fired for saying that work is annoying.
And if work is that bad maybe a new job would be a good idea.
Sometimes the mistake is noticed a slit second after its too late.
The problem is that communication is instantaneous. Imagine if Facebook was a magazine, it wouldn't work but lets just go with it, and you had to post messages via snail mail. You'd have to write the message, find an envelope, find a stamp, and remember to take it with you when you leave the house. Odds are that you will think better of it after a couple of days. When you've forgotten to post the letter for the third time you might realised that the hurtful letter is a bad idea and bin it.
So I propose that computers should have an 'Are you sure about this?' setting. Google already has some features of this nature. If you say 'attachment' in a message but forget to attach the document it'll remind you.
So how about this you write an email and when you click send a message comes up. 'Did you mean to use the word ***', 'Your message, Subject: 'Itchy Bum' is about to be sent to 'Work mailing list' is this what you meant?
On the other hand maybe people should just be a little more careful. This is not a phenomenon that's going to go away. And if you do hate work so much you feel the need to complain online here's my advice.
Make sure your boss won't see it.
If you want to risk it keep it PG. I don't think you could get fired for saying that work is annoying.
And if work is that bad maybe a new job would be a good idea.
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