Technology is meant to improve our life and, in effect, allows us to do things that were simply impossible before. On the other side of the coin, however, the same technology is likely to make us more frustrated, to increase our level of stress due to unexpected complications.
Any type of technology works well if you know well how to use it and for what purpose, but at the slightest error or problem it risks not forgiving us and forces us to double our efforts and time to try to get out of it .
Speaking of technology especially IT, it can be interesting to make a list of the most frustrating problems, both for the best and the least experienced, also trying to solve them or to understand what should be avoided, if you do not have the desire and time to understand what's wrong.
1) The cell phone battery
We have already written a lot on this topic and every time it is necessary to repeat the same sentence, on the battery of any smartphone that does not always reach the end of the day and that, however, must be recharged every day.
I have already answered the question "Why does the smartphone battery last so little">
2) Facebook
In the end, without Facebook we were better, maybe we didn't know what happened to our old classmates, but at least we lived more relaxed and without performance anxiety and to show how well we are.
This statement just written may seem a bit excessive, but basically not too much as already explained in at least 3 articles on the main Facebook problems:
- How Facebook ruined our lives
- Avoid annoying friends on Facebook without taking away the friendship
3) Computer freezing or not starting
There is nothing more frustrating than going to start a job, trying to turn on the computer and discover that it broke for some unknown reason, so suddenly.
Another typical situation is that of the PC that crashes and crashes, just in the moment before saving our day's work.
Unfortunately every computer, by its nature, is imperfect and has several bugs that send it to tilt for no apparent reason.
In other articles we have explained the top 10 reasons for Windows and PC crashes and solutions for common and frequent Windows problems
4) Unwanted programs and adware on your computer
In the end there is no escape: anything that you download from the internet, brings with it some useless program and even if you buy a new computer, this is already full of useless pre-installed programs that must be removed.
The problem of unwanted programs, adware, crapware or bloatware (i.e. unwarranted heavy programs) is a problem for every Windows PC because Microsoft has not set rules and has not centralized a program store.
It so happens that each manufacturer installs on the computers for sale what they want (see guide on how to have a new PC without junk and adware) and that all the download sites (Softonic, Download.com etc.) install unwanted programs (PUP).
The problem is not practically avoidable, but only solvable by finding and removing these useless software
Even the bloatware problem is also present on Android smartphones.
We have written, in this regard, the guide to Remove (deactivate) Samsung, LG or HTC apps from their respective Android smartphones
5) The cables
Cable is one of the most annoying and frustrating problems that every person with a computer has to face.
The cables are unsightly, they collect dust, mess up, tangle and always seem too many.
On Navigaweb we dealt with the problem with great effort, with a guide on how to hide computer and TV cables.
6) Passwords
Our whole digital world, on computers and smartphones, depends on passwords to access anything.
Passwords are the keys to access everything: to the computer, mobile phone, email, Facebook, online bank and everything.
Forgetting a password can be a pain, but never worse than a password stolen or discovered through hacking techniques.
If it is wrong to use the same password everywhere, it is equally wrong to use different but easy to remember passwords, which are also easy to find.
We have therefore explained, to address this problem, how to generate different passwords for each site without forgetting them while, in another article, the best apps for managing passwords are listed.
It is worthwhile, to understand how delicate the matter is, see this interview with Edward Snowden, (activate subtitles if you don't understand English)
7) The printer
The printer is one of those electronic objects that anger us the most, which always has problems.
The main of these is ink, which always ends in the moment of greatest need, perhaps on Sunday, when everything is closed and you cannot buy a new cartridge.
The only solution is to have a spare cartridge and read the article on tricks to save ink and printer cartridges.
Other printer problems are configuration, network sharing and even location, because a printer is always cumbersome at home and never beautiful to look at.
The best solution would be to no longer print sheets of paper, but I believe that it is still not practicable.
8) Low-cost undersized phones
Today perhaps a little less, but above all until some time ago mobiles with insufficient memory were sold, with strong slowdowns in running applications and also with insufficient space, so as to prevent the installation of new applications.
Android is a wonderful operating system, easy to use and very flexible and customizable, but it requires certain hardware requirements that cannot be minimal.
Among the things to know before buying the new smartphone cell phone it is important not to save on the space of the internal memory and the RAM, which must be sufficient and, today, at least 8 GB one and 1 GB the other respectively.
9) The hoaxes on the internet
How much news is circulating on the internet and on social networks, many of these absolutely incredible, sensational things, which very often are actually false.
In the end, the spread of false news provokes that unpleasant effect of considering everything with doubt and of not being surprised at anything, because it is probably not true.
We explained how to find out fake news on the internet, legends via email and online hoaxes and how to report hoaxes or fake news on Facebook.
10) The environment hostile to technology
The biggest problem in using modern technologies is not so much in their complexity, as in the fact that there are no infrastructures around that make their exploitation easy.
So here in Italy the Wifi connection is never found or is not free, that the infrastructures for a fast network do not exist or yet, that in the company there is often a boss who blocks the internet and does not let us surf even in the newspapers or on Facebook, which cannot be installed on the office computer and we are still forced to use Internet Explorer 7 or 8 on Windows XP.
What are the other technology problems that we often find and that we never manage to solve?
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