One of the first things GoddessJ complained about, when she got her new iPad for Christmas, was that the autocomplete kept adding a ‘y’ to the end of her name. I call her ****y, and her family; no one else is allowed to, and she doesn’t refer to herself that way either. I had to tell her that she could turn off the autocomplete feature to stop it. Autocomplete might occasionally be useful for people who can’t type and don’t want to learn how, or on certain devices like phones, but mostly it’s just a royal pain in the arse, in my opinion.

On the other hand, Google’s autocomplete can be amusing. Here’s an example of what comes up when you type in the names of each of the states. My sister and her husband lived in North Carolina for a time… and yes, as the map says, they worked for a furniture manufacturer. 😉 (I’m not sure why Illinois comes up with “lottery” though. Maybe there was a huge jackpot there recently?)

Here are many other examples of what happens when the collective subconscious of an entire nation get hooked up to the Internet. It ain’t pretty… though it can be pretty funny. 🙂