One of the most memorable autocorrect situations I’ve had came very recently. I was trying to text one of my friends and tell them when I was coming down to visit them (pretty important). I tried to say that my plane was going to land on monday, and for whatever reason, autocorrect thought I was trying to say “Mardi Gras.” It took me about three tries before I could finally get “monday” typed out correctly. Needless to say, my friend was extremely confused.

Autocorrect can help us out in many situations. A lot of times it can help articulate alcohol influenced texting, it can help us spell words we don’t know how to spell, and it can simply add to our already lazy society of not having to completely type out a single word (because that’s so difficult to do…). However, in many cases, it can be a burden, as illustrated above. I was trying to get my plans together, important ones because it meant me being picked up from an airport and not being stranded in a place I’ve never been, and autocorrect came in and tried to sabotage that plan.

Is it good or bad? In my experiences, its very situation-based, but I’ll leave it up to you to decide.