Is it normal that touchscreens make me feel stupid

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I'm not some kinda granny, I'm in high school and well adjusted with technology (I spent 5 hours a day on my laptop actually) but since I got my first touchscreen device(mobile phone) at 14 i've had this thought.
Whenever I use it I feel stupid. I mean the icons and the speed of the changes when I move my finger and the layout and just everything irritates me. I feel like someone is underestimating my intelligence.
It's fine when I use a mouse or joystick or whatever kind of.. controler.
Is anyone the same?

btw i think I'm giving away my mobile phone I don't need it anyway. Let alone my mom that uses it to know where I am

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  • megadriver
    5 years ago

    You think that's bad, try car touchscreens? They work when you are standing still, but while driving, unless you drive on a perfectly smooth road, you can never press, or slide the thing you want. Leading to you hopping from menu to menu, or pressing random stuff like a moron. Also you have no feel for what you are doing, cause there is no actual button to feel and press.

    I hate this trend where automakers just slap an I-pad to the dashboard and call that an infotainment system.

    Glad both my Mercedes cars have buttons. My new one has a joystick thing you can use to control the screen and my older Mercedes has an infotainment system with lots of buttons, no touch screen.

    My project BMW was built in the 80s, so it only has a radio.

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  • Cr0333
    5 years ago

    I can never stand Touchscreen interfaces, I mean I love Android but I always get a small keyboard PCB w/ some navigation buttons, solder on a MicroUSB, and I'll do smth so it' plugs into the MicroUSB port on the bottom and stays secure to the case. The touchscreens always get to me fsr.

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  • Babygirl17
    5 years ago

    Well they are called smartphones! They are smarter than all of us! But seriously that's probably normal even though I put not normal........ BTW you shouldn't get rid of your phone because your mom uses it to track you down for safety reasons. (like mine) Like once I got attacked by a dog and good ol' mom came to the rescue that's to the tracker! (all I could text was help so she knew where I was already lol)

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  • Shackleford96
    5 years ago

    Yeah, I get that. Smartphones are designed for their simplicity, and they are very good at that.

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  • Ellenna
    5 years ago

    I am a granny and I HATE touchscreens, to the extent that I've never updated to a touchscreen mobile and keep putting off learning to use the expensive laptop I've had for a few years.

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  • jack_shephard
    5 years ago

    Well i am writing this on my phone & i don't feel stupid... if you are asking its normal then probably...
    but no it doesn't irritates me.
    sometimes this fuckin autocorrector does.

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