(At first I thought that Auto-connect would be a really witty title for this post as a play on "auto-correct," but then I realized that auto-connect is a real concept anyway and doesn't force whoever reads it to be surprised in the way that I hoped. Oh well.)
Every once in a while when I'm typing something on my phone, auto-correct will correct it to the name of somebody in my phone book. Recently, I was typing a message to someone and misspelled some word, which led auto-correct to suggest "Gineros" from my phone book, and I realized that I hadn't talked to her and had hardly thought of her perhaps in months. Also quite recently, a misspelling caused it to insert the name "Vivienne," my artist friend from China, who I had also not considered in a good while.
It was nice to think of them. It does feel a little bit strange to me, though, that the only reason I thought of them was because my spell checker did its job wrong.
Peace out.
Every once in a while when I'm typing something on my phone, auto-correct will correct it to the name of somebody in my phone book. Recently, I was typing a message to someone and misspelled some word, which led auto-correct to suggest "Gineros" from my phone book, and I realized that I hadn't talked to her and had hardly thought of her perhaps in months. Also quite recently, a misspelling caused it to insert the name "Vivienne," my artist friend from China, who I had also not considered in a good while.
It was nice to think of them. It does feel a little bit strange to me, though, that the only reason I thought of them was because my spell checker did its job wrong.
Peace out.
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