Smartphone Auto Correction – I Didn’t type that!

Intelligent people need not put on their thinking caps to understand your message, even if there is a mistake.

Social media message understood with mistakes, but brain figures out message.Has your Smartphone made you look like an idiot lately?  You want to be part of the social media hype so you pickup your smartphone and quickly log on to your Twitter or Facebook account and type a witty comment just to see that auto correct has replaced a keyword here and there or you transposed a letter or two. You re-post and blame the keyboard, fat fingers, and the cellphones auto correction feature.  You could have sworn you read the message before posting, but you brain just reads right past the mistakes.

Can you read the following…

if yuo can raed tihs, you hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.
Can you raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?

What about this…

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If you can read both of these messages then I hope you are following me on Facebook or Twitter, because I can read both and if you can, we’ll have a meeting of the minds.  This way, if I make a mistake typing on my Smartphone, you’ll be smart enough to know exactly what I’m thinking, even if I didn’t communicate it 100% accurately.

What crazy messages have you typed lately?