My idea of technology is a bit of a problem for me to get through. I don’t know what to say about it because it is so hard to find it out here. I think I’m just going to get through the rest of the night and then I will be sure to get back to you.
This week’s task was one of the most difficult for me thus far in the course. I spent considerable time trying out each of the provided sentence prompts, only to get frustrated each time with not being able to get my point across. In my experience, predictive text functions have been beneficial when writing simple phrases over text to someone, such as “have a good night” or “see you soon.” However, it is very difficult to get any deeper and more meaningful messages across because the word choice simply is not there. Each time I wanted to start a new sentence, without consideration of what word and punctuation my previous sentence ended with, I was only ever presented with three words to choose from: I, Hey, We. If this is any indication of what words I tend to use when communicating over text, it’s a fair assumption that I often chat about making plans, what my plans are, and greeting people with the greeting “Hey!”. I would never think to use predictive text to communicate complex ideas, as those require a much richer vocabulary than what my Messages app provides!