Me, My iPhone and Texting Malfunctions!

One of my favorite tech toys that I currently have is my iPhone. Not a day goes by that I am not amazed at the wide variety of things it can do. It also seems that with each passing week there are more amazing applications available through the iTunes App Store.

There is a flaw with the iPhone, which actually exists with many of the smartphones. That flaw is the size of the “Qwerty” keyboard and the “auto-complete” function that is used when texting.

I have big hot-dog like fingers, and sometimes I will miss-type and spell a completely different word than I originally intended, especially when you consider that my iPhone looks at the misspelled word and then “auto-completes” it for me. When this occurs, the person that is receiving the text from me is rather confused or concerned as to what I am talking about. Thankfully my wife is the person I am usually sending texts to and she hopefully knows what I meant or gets a big laugh out of my texting errors.

Here are a couple of recent incidents. A few days ago my wife sent me a text asking what I did for lunch. I thought that I responded to her and said that “I went to McDonalds and it sucked!” When what actually got sent to her was “I went to McFondles and sucked!” After receiving this text, my wife sent me a text of “WTF?” which was shortly followed by a text of “Me and my co-workers are ROFLOAO!”

Another texting mishap was when I received a text from a friend that I had not seen or spoken to in a while. They asked “Hey, what are you doing?” I didn’t want to reply with “Nothing” because that is a lie, we are always doing something. What I was doing at that moment was trying to think of something to write about. When I am thinking really hard I will stroke my goatee. I know it might sound odd but I am sure you to have some odd thing that you do. Anyhow I thought I responded to my friend with a text that said “I am just sitting here stroking my goatee.” What I actually sent to my friend was “I am sitting here stroking my goat.” My friend never responded back to my text, however the next time that I saw him he asked if had been stroking my goat lately.

These are just a couple of the many, many texting mishaps that have occurred to me. I am sure that you too have had your own “Texting Malfunctions.”

I am anxiously awaiting the new iPhone which I hear might be coming out in June or July. It has some new features that my current iPhone does not have, not to mention that I hope the geniuses at Apple have figured out a way for my iPhone to know what I intend to type when I am texting so that I do not continue to have texting malfunctions.

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