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Average Jane Is Annoyed By Technology

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First Twitter went into major FAIL mode over the weekend, now I discover that my beloved Gmail has been making my job harder.

I read Seth Godin’s post this morning about Gmail deciding that his Google Checkout orders were spam, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t checked my spam folder lately.

Guess what it was chock-full of? Google Alerts!

Yes, the same Google Alerts I rely on every single day to monitor activity for my clients. Thanks, Google!

Gmail’s decision to spamify my Google Alerts was quite random. I never stopped getting them, I just wasn’t getting as many as I thought I should. I’ve added the Google Alerts e-mail address to my Contacts list, so let’s hope that solves the problem.

Are you dealing with any annoying technological failures lately?

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2 responses to “Average Jane Is Annoyed By Technology”

  1. DLC Avatar
    DLC

    I wouldn’t call them failures so much as decisions that other people (IT dept) made because they are tech wusses. like having my own website filtered at my place of work for instance!

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  2. Goofy Girl Avatar
    Goofy Girl

    Yes!! I bought a new PDA phone (Treo 700p) off eBay for about $100. Good! Well, it had been dropped and so the sync cable doesn’t work. Bad! But a friend told me about a Bluetooth wireless sync dongle thing that I could use to sync instead. Good! So now my PC is talking to my PDA wirelessly, but it is still not synching! ARG! So now I have two phones until I get this figured out. DOUBLE ARG!!

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