Best of the Web – Damn You Autocorrect!

(Best of the Web is an occasional series of posts that spotlight what I believe is the Internet living up to its highest potential)

Damn You Autocorrect – I haven’t spent a lot time focusing on classic business model web sites in this series.  The reality is that there is NO other site on the web that so regularly reduces me to helpless, gasping laughter.  This is actually a family of websites that focus on failures in the land of our daily technology.  “Damn You Autocorrect” is based on odd and hysterical messages that are created when the autocorrect function on our smart phones change words in our messages.  Add in related sites like “Parent Texts” (seriously parents, what is wrong with you?), “Wrong # Texts” (we should all pay a little more attention to whom we are sending some of our texts) and “Damn Funny Texts” among others.

Either the world is filled with people who pay no attention to what appears on their screen before they hit send or they have a staff of truly brilliant writers.  I am totally divided on which camp I fall into but in the end I don’t really care.  This stuff is hysterically funny.  We are talking about a great way to suddenly waste an hour at work, all the while laughing maniacally so that all your co-workers begin to stare at you.

The Internet doesn’t need to be serious all the time.  It’s great when it can be seriously funny.