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The Answer To Life’s Issues
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Having been around technology for [I want to say 1 million years but somebody without a sense of humor will tell me it hasn’t been around that long] — I don’t feel like doing the arithmetic because I’m not sure what time to count back to — so I will just say I’ve been around technology for a long time.
Over the course of that time, the options that face me when I have to make a choice or select something online or on my phone have grown. It’s not like pick one from column A one from column B — or a 4 option multiple choice question.
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What I discovered when I was looking for something on my phone a bit ago and went down the list that I considered long enough — I could not find what I was looking for. I took a break, came back, and said it has to be here — it’s been here before. So I sort of did one of those scrolls that just keeps scrolling and sure enough they were many more options below where I had previously stopped. And there, way down near the bottom, was the option that I needed to pick. PHEW!
I won't even go into clicking on the “more” option because that just gives you more scrolling to do. But it's often where you have to keep scrolling if you can't find the original…
