About 3 months ago I started
using a Facebook-like social networking system called Google+. It went well
with my email since they’re on the same system, and two of my friends were on
it.
Background for the rest of the story: I had recently started
playing lacrosse, in which the practices lasted 2 hours and went straight
through dinner. I had and still have no idea what the word “hung” means in the
following context.
After lacrosse practice one day I was on Google+ and I sent
out the following message, and I quote:
“lacrosse is fun, but it makes me effing hung”
No period. That is because I had meant to write “hungry”. I
was slightly annoyed, but I commented on it:
“HUNGRY! HUNGRY! Stupid google+”
I knew that the only people who would see it would be my
friends who would laugh about it but understand. It was not until the next day
that my mom told me that she had received an email from my grandfather, in
response to an email he received from
my great-grandmother, in response to an email she received from me. Can you guess what the email
said?
Apparently in the settings, under the gearbox whatever, there
is a setting that sends your posts to everyone on your email list who isn’t on
Google+. My grandmother thought my email had been hacked.
It took a while for my grandmother to even entertain the
possibility that I had sent the email. But anyway, that whole affair eventually
got sorted out after a scolding about the use of the word “effing” from my mom.
On an unrelated note, recently afterthat fiasco my email was
hacked for real, from Russia. But the hackers didn’t do anything other than
change my screensaver.
I guess that’s karma.
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