A couple years ago, I wanted a google calendar. I had to get a google account to get a calendar, which was fine. I enrolled in a university where the email service was soon changed to being some version of gmail. This is also fine. Now this means I have 2 gmail accounts. For a while my school account would not support other features and even now I don't think blogging is available to me, so I send and receive email through my school account and keep my calendar, documents and blog on my preexisting account. This could also be fine, accept that...
- When I log on to my email, the computer always seems to assume I want the unused email, even when I type my school email info into the login screen, for some reason it takes me first to my empty email folder and then allows me to switch accounts if I would like to.
- Occasionally, google goes through a faze during which it only allows you to view documents attached to the first account you logged into, so while I may be logged into to accounts at once, if I want to edit a document, I must first sign out of all accounts, then log in again in the opposite order.
- It took me 7 minutes to access this blog today. First I typed "blogger.com" into my task bar and waited, it redirected me to the login page for my school website. I then searched for blogger and clicked the link-same problem. Feeling creative, I went to a friends blog and clicked "follow" to force it to ask me if I want to sign in. Why yes, yes I do. I clicked the corresponding button and was redirected to the school login page. Ok. I login with the school and it tells me I have attempted to do something invalid. I go to google calendar which is of course displaying the non-school login name and go to the blog tab. It asks me if I would like to create a blog account under my school login id. I click "login under a different name" and it offers me the school account again. I log out, log back in and click the same button and here I am. The worst part is, I don't know what I did differently the second time. Every time I post a blog entry, I will be forced to spend 7 minutes looking.
All of this would be acceptable for me. I can forgive google for its quirks and oddities. It is made by humans with their own imperfections. Maybe someone out there is working on this very problem right now. The biggest problem with this whole thing is:
- Google is taking over the world and computer geeks are happy about it. Despite the joke level failure of google+, everyone still adores google and I feel like I'm pointing out that the emperor is naked when I get frustrated by a small 7 minute waste of time. It makes me worry that maybe it's not google. Maybe it's me.
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