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Just because we write about it doesn’t mean tech doesn’t bother me as much as you. Technology has improved my life in countless ways, but there are still a ton of things that irk me about it. I could go on all day, but here I’ll just share the main ways that I feel tech has made my life worse.

I’m not going to get all serious about how social media may be corrupting the youth or whether AI might replace us all. It’s just a light look at some of my own tech grievances. You might agree with some of them, you might feel some are completely wrong, and you’ll probably have plenty of your own. That’s what the comments section is for.

At the risk of drawing too much online fire, I’ll kick off with a popular one.

1. No, I don’t need an account

I get why I need an account for certain things. My bank needs to know which money (or debt) is attributable to me, for example. But we don’t need an account for everything. You might want to harvest my data, and we can have a discussion about that, but particularly if I’m buying something online, I don’t need an account with your service. Don’t make it mandatory. I shouldn’t need to create an account to use Wi-Fi in an airport or book a haircut.