Online blunders and autocorrect fails

Your stomach drops. The sweating starts. You fall to your knees, an impassioned "Nooooooo" errupting from the pit of shame inside you. Yes, this is happening. You just made an autocorrect boob. #happenstothebestofus

Technology is great. We love it, gransnetters love it. You pay your bills, you connect with people, you find the answer to questions like "Do bees have ears?" (they don't, FYI). But we think there are still far too many older people out there who aren't experiencing the joy of receiving an email in which the word inconvenience has been corrected to incontinence, and that's simply not right.

But as it happens, getting older people online is exactly what we're about - and you can help us. Vote for us in the Tech4Good awards, so that we can continue our mission and bring hilarity like the below to all and sundry. Because being older shouldn't be a barrier to being connected.

The 'send' button strikes again

Dear predictive text, you're a rubbish match maker but thanks all the same:

"We married five years ago and were looking for a DJ, so I found one and texted him… Boy, was I embarrassed when the text flew asking: "Hi, can you give me a price as I would like to BONK you!!!" He didn't reply..." elen1

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Oh autocorrect, you're such a blast. KNOT:

"I sent someone an email to apologise for an earlier email and my explanation was that I was 'a hairbrush'." Grannyknot

 Lagos?

"Today I have received a text from DBH, currently shopping in Tesco. It said simply 'Lagos?'

I answered and said that I could think of better places to spend a holiday, but if that was what he really wanted, I would give it some thought." janerowena

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We're washing our hair:

"When I was working, an email was sent out inviting important people for 'Cheese and Wind'!" Shysal

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If you think the young are immune to these sorts of technical missteps, then, my friend, you are sadly mis-tech-en. Case in point: 

"Our admin lady called me over to look at an email that our (very) young designer had sent to a client. I remember helping him with it, as he was stuck for how to word it. As he was a bit behind with sending a quote, I included an apology for the delay and the phrase 'I do hope this hasn't caused any inconvenience' ...Unfortunately, in the email that was actually sent, this became 'I do hope this hasn't caused any incontinence'. I just hope that they didn't wet themselves laughing!" phoenix

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And talking of missteps...

"I thought I had said 'And I fell over Dad's bloody Wellie'... The email actually read 'And I fell over Dad's bloody WILLIE'." POGS

YES, OK. We get it. We should probably be doing more yoga:

"I saw one the other day where someone wrote about a recipe for 'celeriac dolphin pose'. It took us a while to work out that it should have been dauphinoise." Mamie

Image credit: cuisineist.com

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