Author: Matthew Wheeler

By: Matthew Wheeler

Through the early years of smartphones and thanks to Apple, auto correct has been either a life saver or a relationship killer depending on what situation you’re in. Throughout the past decades of heart break, hook ups, friendships and quick hello’s, something is bound to happen. Your text conversations go VIRAL. Volunteering for a cat shelter can auto-correct to say that you’ve “punched” instead of “touched” a cat, a cookout can go from frying up the patties to frying up the panties. It really does cause the embarrassment of one another and just wish it never did happen in the first place. Sometimes depending on the type of friend you have, websites like “Damn You Auto correct” can make a big “you-know-what” out of you.

But it’s all not bad with auto correct. You always need auto correct in times of love and admiration, whether your using up all the data to send your girlfriend that very, deep and sensational text message that you’d rather give to her right then and there and not in real life. It keeps you and her happy, and makes you think of her in rough times when you aren’t side by side. Auto correct also helps when you just have that one perfect story right on the tip of your tongue, and needs to get jotted down as soon as possible. Auto correct easily fixes up your mistakes and with just a quick rundown of your story, your good to go for future reference.

Autocorrect has since gone though updates and completely new words, like YOLO to yo-yo, or swag to bag. It also has spread to every single smartphone known to man, and no matter what smartphone you do use, you can always force your auto correct to shut it self of completely, or just change one word to a random, completely out of the ordinary word, just so you can get a laugh making your parents wonder “Why is this one word coming up with this other word”?! Don’t worry, something will confuse us millennials son. See?!