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Monday Pet Peeve: Junk Mail

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Blogger Paula Light from Light Motifs II just posted her Monday Pet Peeve and invited us to voice ours. Hers was about ads on Facebook. Mine is about JUNK MAIL. Read on to hear my peeve.

Strange, but I’ve never seen an ad on Facebook. My peeve is email. I am besieged by so much junk mail that I can’t find my real mail. It is driving me crazy. Aside from the scams, which are getting increasingly harder to distinguish from the real thing, the worst are the political notices…hundreds a day, all asking for money. I believe in the causes but am literally spending hours a day ridding myself of all of the notices. I send money and immediately have five or six others requesting more––even from the campaign I just contributed to. The result is that I am just going through every few hours and erasing them all, which of course defeats the purpose of informing us of issues, but if I didn’t, I would literally spend every moment of every day reading bad news, and is this how we want to spend our lives? There must be some solution short of burying one’s head in the sand. There used to be a button to ban a sender from one’s email but I no longer can find such a button. Okay. Rave over.

 

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Computer Updates

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Computer Updates

Modern life is a rigmarole, day after day.
It radiates chaos for which you must pay.
If you’re hindered by change, then this isn’t your world.
Week after week, more updates are hurled
that change the position of all that you do.
How do I find “send?” I haven’t a clue!

They make no provision for those who are old
who have to remember instructions they’re told.
And just when they’ve memorized everything new,
all the things that they need have been placed out of view.
I find it uncouth that the programmers make
change after change just for change’s sake.

What is the purpose of transforming a word
into a symbol? I find it absurd.
Then putting it somewhere we don’t think to look
so we have to survey every corner and nook
just to perform a task we once found easy?
It makes us confused and a little bit queasy

that computer techs constantly accelerate
change so we’re always just out of date!!!!
Does it give them a lift and make them feel jolly
that they’re making their predecessors melancholy
for the old times when all the things found yesterday
were in the same place when looked for today????

Does anyone else keep getting the “Exchange Password Required” message dozens of times a day from Microsoft??? It is driving me crazy!!!!

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