Please forgive the cussing but I am as mad, angry, outraged and generally pissed off (excuse the cussin' please) as I've been in a long, long time.
I resent that I am not receiving my subscriptions to several daily news letter as well as some of your blogs. AND I further resent that that the since Google has screwed everything up, I can't function in the blogosphere properly. I hate the new interface -- it's ugly and messy. I don't want their damned Friend Connect just as I REALLY hate Facebook. I'm insecure but not so much that I need to worry about being liked by all and sundry. I've tried using the so-called "help" features but they as useful as a screen door on a submarine so I've been cussing and crying for over two hours. I have no patience with idiots who want to fix things that aren't broken.
I don't need this crap. I was up half the night in pain and I'm worried about that, too. Google is a search engine and that's all it needs to be.
If anyone can offer help/solutions, please feel free to email me at the addy in the sidebar. I'm going to go cry some more because obviously, there are no answers available from the idiots in charge. At this point, there's nothing else I can do.
Here's an interesting video on the changes:
Kay
Uh oh, I'm not even aware of the snares, traps and quicksand that google has in store for me 'round the next bend. Good luck with it all, and just know that I'll soon be cursing along with you. In the meantime, a belated Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteIt is always a royal pain in the you-know-where when any of the sites, like Google, change. Most of the time what they consider features I consider bugs. All I can do is fumble around until I find what I need and use only what I really want to. You're right about the helpfulness of the 'help' features. We recently encountered a problem because our usual sites didn't load or loaded very slowly and were very unresponsive. We usually can't figure out if it is Google, the site we are visiting or something else. All we can do is swear and turn things off for a while. Damned annoying. Wish I could help but these things either work or not and I have no reason why.
ReplyDeleteHey sweetie, you at least got a video in to your post. I just spent a half-hour before I figured out that there's a simple way to do it. ha.
ReplyDeleteBlogger can try our patience. I don't know if I have the new interface or not. I do have something different that messes up my screen size (too large now for my computer and the side bar covers part of the area on the compose section. So far I've been working around it. I don't know if this is the new template I'm dealing with or just new nuisances. Anyway, the point is I feel you dude! jk
Seriously it is a lot to deal with if you're feeling sick, in pain, or not sleeping enough. What I fear is when we'll forced into that circles thing. I really do not want to deal with that sort of change and it may push me over to WordPress or Tumblr.
I'm so sorry, Kay. Different people are having different problems with their blogs, and I certainly hope Google can get it straightened out. As for the film, so much for "Do No Evil."
ReplyDeleteI'm in Tucson which means I have a different server and it allowed me to watch the video without using up my usage allotment. I don't worry about what they are doing because for a long time they could but they just didn't talk about it. It wasn't there for everyone, but someone who knew how to use the system always could get what they wanted about anybody.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't like about it is when I do a search for an image, I get my own images first rather than a neutral search. To me that confuses what everybody else gets as well as limits me to not finding out what the populace gets. Being a writer, I am interested in what others get and so far as I can tell, there are no ways for me to get that. Since I have a LOT of images out there, obviously I get a lot of that before I can get beyond it. I haven't put up a profile at Google+ and don't know if I will or not.
With Blogger, I decided in the beginning to not do followers and so the only way I know someone wrote a new blog is by using my own blog roll, which is alongside my blog. It gives their name, their most recent post's title, and I have the option of going there if it looks relevant to me-- or not.
Facebook has never been a problem to me but since I have it only with family and friends, it's a small list and purely to keep track of what people I care about are thinking or want others to know. I don't 'like' things anywhere; so don't bring them back to Facebook. It's just an option. I put photos there and they are the ones I'd not wanted shared with the world as they are of family. I do limit who can see them to those on my list and maybe that will keep google from taking them-- if they did, I'd reconsider belonging there.
Sorry to hear you are not feeling well and hope it's better soon. Call your doctor if not to be sure that nothing went wrong. Down here, I'm doing the hayfever thing with the desert fully in bloom-- beautiful to look at but has my nose saying-- time out.
I am also having problems, but traveling right now I do not have the time to debug. I tried before leaving, but hit a wall and did not know how/where to get help. It is on my must-do list when I get home next week. I am going to try and find a (cheap) computer geek, like a high school kid. It is tough for non-techies to debug tech issues. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI should give up FB, but that's where my grandchildren hang out....and Leslie Parsley and you (still) and Cop Car and Joared and Darlene!!! The whole world is teetering on the edge of something horble. Hang in there. Soon it'll be football season again, and you'll be able to post about Ohio State, et al.
ReplyDeleteCheers!! m.e.
I am impressed that you were able to post! Everytime I look at the interface I lose my desire to write. I'm sure I'll get over it, but in the meantime it's just WTF?
ReplyDeleteAmen. And, the screen door is pretty funny.
ReplyDeletewhen you're in pain everything seems huge
ReplyDeletedon't let Google get you down, then the asshats win
step away from it, breathe, go outside, eat some chocolate, give yourself a manicure, or whatever makes you feel better
sometimes I stand in the shower and scream
hugs
I think when you have an image as a company that innovates and you have lots of staff who get paid to do just that, the urge to "improve" overwhelms the need. Most of the time, when Google has improved the gmail or Blogger interface, it has become much worse. Of course, there is no way they will ever go back to what worked just fine before. Companies don't like to admit they made a mistake.
ReplyDeleteOnly if advertisers complain will Google ever agree that their "fixes' were "messes."
What Dianne said, Kay, and I hope you are feeling better today. Hang in there, lady.
ReplyDeleteI do not do the Google+ crap but I totally agree about the new Blogger interface. I've switched back to the previous one for however long I can still use it. In the meantime I've let them know what I think of the "new and improved" interface, which is dreadful. While I didn't have any problems the few days I used the new one, I found a lot to complain about in my "feedback" to them, not they are listening.
ReplyDeleteFor one thing, due to the skinny font and pale grays and blues, people who are visually impaired simply can't see the text. More importantly, I don't know where these geniuses get the stupid notion that having drop down menus and having to click umpteen times to perform a task that was previously just one click away is more efficient.
Have told them that if they go through with this madness, I'm going to make the big switch and go elsewhere. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, stupids.
There is nothing more for me to add to the 'don't like' list. It has all been said by all of the above. I agree, it's a "MESS"!!!
ReplyDeleteI really just stopped by to check-in and see how you're doing. I've been off and on for so long I don't know about changes until they're etched in stone. Then...
I'm off fussing and cussing like you!
I hope you feel better soon.
I am considering using a different blog thingy.The new look is crappy and boring.
ReplyDeleteI hate Change... I HATE CHANGE!!!!!!
ReplyDeletenow I got that out of my system... so far others have had trouble, but mine is still the same.. so far..
If it isn't broke GOOGLE... don't fix it? New and improved
is not good... 99% of the time. I know your frustration. I HATE CHANGE..oh, I guess I already said that..
Hope you are feeling better.. I know it is hard.. and you get sick and tired of being sick and tired..
Once Google starts to force us onto google +I'm off to Wordpress.
ReplyDeleteI get on well with the new Blogger dashboard thing, but that's as far as I'll go.
Sod Google.
Yes, the new blogger is a pain. There was nothing wrong with the old one.
ReplyDeleteMy sweetheart reminds me that it is free and they can do what they want. [He is treading on thin ice.]
I am even considering getting a real website...although my sweetheart has pointed out that they are not free [The ice that he is on is getting thinner...].
There's nothing wrong with change as long as there's a real need for it and it does in fact improve the product. But these changes are totally unnecessary and actually make things worse. Google, like Facebook, however doesn't seem very interested in what their patrons want. I have one friend who has an AOL dial-up and has been using Blogger for years but received a message saying Blogger no longer supports them, so she's flat out of luck. Since she is visually impaired this leaves her high and dry.
ReplyDeleteI also will be looking at other alternatives realizing that they all have issues, especially if they're free. I may even fork out the money for my own domain. It really isn't all that expensive but even $10 a month can be a struggle for those on a very limited budget. Only if enough people drop Google email and Blogger will they begin to pay attention.
Kay, I hope you're feeling better.
The professional program we used at my last job had periodic changes which they called "enhancements". The never worked quite right at first. That's what I always think of when Google, Twitter or Facebook crops up with a new wrinkle (as my grandmother used to say). Eventually we learn to work with it, but it's taught me not to get to attached to versions that I really like!
ReplyDeleteOMG another satisfied Google customer. The new "improvements" have me about ready to throw int the towel as well.
ReplyDeleteJust more satisfied customers all the time!
ReplyDeleteBlog Spot has caused me so much frustration that I am thinking of paying to use Type Pad if I keep on blogging. I can't really afford it, but I can't afford to have my BP rise every time I try to post.
ReplyDeleteI had a gmail account and wrote to a forum to try to figure out how to stop captchas. I can't as it turns out. In doing so I inadvertently clicked on the wrong box and now I get ALL of the questions in my gmail - hundreds every day. I spent hours trying to find out how to stop it and then trying to cancel my gmail account. I could never figure it out so I just don't go there anymore. When the thousands of emails finally fill my inbox maybe Google will cancel it. Gah!
Take care and feel better.
These computer and techy problems will kill us all Kay. They change things up all the time....way too much. Sometimes it's just too much for my brain to take in; and when it comes to this stuff....I don't like change. Hugs, Joy
ReplyDeleteNote to those who haven't yet missed me (XE?): I dumped FaceBook last September. *giggling*
ReplyDeleteCop Car
Problem is that I have become addicted to the ether. Hanging on, like you, in spite of changes: such as wondering if you will even received this! Happy belated!
ReplyDeleteHope your feeling better.. Google is going to have some major problems with the government. I don't know if that will be good or bad.When I'm feeling as you do this helps me the most: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy.Love ya Joe Todd...P.S. might even work for Snow LOL
ReplyDeleteWe elder bloggers are not the only ones who hate unnecessary change, but we might be the only ones secure enough to admit it. We were used to the old interface and, like humans everywhere, we like what we're used to.
ReplyDeleteThat wasn't useful, unless you value commiseration--which I do.
We elder bloggers are not the only ones who hate unnecessary change, but we might be the only ones secure enough to admit it. We were used to the old interface and, like humans everywhere, we like what we're used to.
ReplyDeleteThat wasn't useful, unless you value commiseration--which I do.