The Most Common Tech Struggles

From a cracked iPhone screen to butt dialing to Instagram upload fails.

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As innovative as technology has become, there are still everyday hurdles to overcome. A cracked iPhone screen, for example. Or how about Instagram upload fails? And perhaps worst of all: sending private DMs as tweets (#dobetter). We've all had a visit to struggle city at one time or another—from browser crashes to autocorrect mishaps—and such blunders have become a fact of life. Here we present The Most Common Tech Struggles.

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Your browser crashes while in the middle of creeping on Facebook

When your map app doesn't know exactly where you are

Accidentally sending a DM as a tweet

Not being able to look at your cell phone screen in the sun

Laptop overheating on your lap

Your phone battery dying

Awesome Instagram photo ... failed upload

Tangled headphone cables

DJing a party off Spotify when your Internet connection goes out

Forgetting how to interact IRL

Dropping your phone in the sink, toilet, puddle, gutter, sewer grate, etc.

When your lady looks at the "Following" tab on Instagram and sees all the girls you've been following/liking

When you're trying to look someone up on Facebook but you accidentally type their name into the status box instead of the search box

Having to type a CAPTCHA more than 4 times

Pop-up ads when watching illegal streams

Following people who link their Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Vine and Instagram leading to heavy repetition and timeline clogging

When some horrible ad starts playing and you have so many tabs open you have no idea where it's coming from

Having 14 passwords and forgetting 95% of them, thus forcing you to go through the "reset password" rigmarole

Constantly tempted to command-F things in real life

Not turning off text previews on iPhone

Having your phone send read receipts and then acting like you never saw a text

Automatic updates when you plug in your iPhone

Lying about your whereabouts and then being photographed/exposed on Instagram or Foursquare

The "customer service" hotline at [insert cable/internet/phone provider here]

Vine crashing before it uploads your video

Uploading the wrong pics to social media

Butt dialing

Signing on to an open wireless connection only to get an error saying that you can't connect

Autocorrect

Google Docs disconnecting and wiping out everything you just worked on before the last autosave

When the (dreaded) Mac ball doesn't stop spinning

When your mother asks you how to use Twitter

When the trackball on your BlackBerry Pearl gets stuck

Still owning a BlackBerry Pearl

Passing through a deadzone when you're downloading/uploading and have to start all over

Missing something awesome that happened IRL because you were checking Instagram

Dropping your phone on your face while texting in bed

Logging onto Twitter at the end of the day and not knowing what anyone is talking about

Lack of bars in certain areas.

When you're abroad and rack up hundreds of dollars in international roaming charges

Wireless mouse and/or keyboard stops working for no reason

Your girlfriend and/or parents seeing your browser history

Responding to a group text when you meant to respond to one person specifically (most likely because you were talking smack)

When one earbud goes dead

Cracked phone screen

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