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Britain’s top 10 tech missteps revealed – so are you guilty of any of them?

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  • musicMagpie surveyed 2000 British people about the technical blunders they had committed
  • Sending a message to the wrong person turned out to be the biggest blunder

By Shivali Best for Mailonline

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We’ve all been there: you type a short message and hit send, only to discover you’ve pinged it to the wrong person.

This ridiculous blunder is the biggest technical blunder in Britain, according to a new survey by musicMagpie.

However, the results show that many of us have fallen victim to even more embarrassing mistakes.

This includes sending a “sext” to the wrong person and liking someone’s photo from years ago when you “stalk” them.

So, are you guilty of any of these hair-raising tech blunders?

For the study, musicMagpie surveyed 2,000 Britons about the technical mistakes they had made at work or in their personal lives

We’ve all been there: you type a short message and hit send, only to discover you’ve pinged it to the wrong person. This ridiculous blunder is Britain’s biggest engineering blunder, according to a new study by musicMagpie (stock image)

The 10 most common technical errors

  1. Sending a text message to the wrong person
  2. Call someone in your pocket
  3. Send a private message in a group
  4. Forgot to put your phone on silent
  5. Spell check where you change a word to something inappropriate
  6. Accidentally playing music out loud
  7. Sending a ‘sext’ to the wrong person
  8. Liking someone’s photo on social media while “stalking” them
  9. Liking someone’s photo from years ago while “stalking” them
  10. Sending a private image to the wrong person, e.g. a ‘nude’

For the study, musicMagpie surveyed 2,000 Britons about the technical mistakes they had made at work or in their personal lives.

In our personal lives, texting the wrong person (67 percent) turned out to be the most common mistake, followed by pcalling someone without intending to (33 percent).

Over a quarter of Britons (26 per cent) have private messaged in a group chat, while 23 per cent have forgotten to put their phone on silent in a public setting.

Fifth, sixth and seventh place were a spell checker changing a word to something inappropriate (18 percent), accidentally playing music out loud in a public place (16 percent), and sending a “sex” to the wrong person (15 percent).

Finally, 14 percent said they liked someone’s photo while “stalking” it, 12 percent have liked a photo from years ago while “stalking,” and nine percent have sent a private message to the wrong person.

However, the research shows that technical errors are not just limited to our personal lives.

More than one in three respondents admitted to having committed a technical error at work.

Sending a message or email to the wrong person (56 percent) was the top technical error at work.

This was followed by misspelling someone’s name (39 percent), accidentally “answering all” (37 percent), and misspelling a word in something inappropriate (17 percent).

Liam Howley, Chief Marketing Officer at musicMagpie said: ‘With the majority of our communications now taking place through our technological devices, it’s clear from our research that technical missteps are more common than ever before and we all need some fine-tuning. our digital etiquette.

“But now that more than 80 percent of the population has committed a technical error, you can rest assured that you are certainly not alone!”

‘Pregnant man’ included in emoji list 14.0

Two emoji — “pregnant man” and a gender-neutral “pregnant person” — are among the 14.0 list of approved emojis coming to devices in 2021 and 2022.

The pregnant man and pregnant person recognize that “pregnancy is possible for some transgender men and non-binary people,” says Emojipedia, a voting member of the Unicode Consortium.

Men get pregnant in real life as well as in fiction, Emojipedia argued, like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1994 movie “Junior.”

Emoji ‘Pregnant man’ and ‘pregnant person’ can also be used as ‘an ironic way of representing a food baby, a very full stomach caused by eating a large meal

Guidelines to use the term “pregnant person” instead of “pregnant woman” – as issued by the British Medical Association in 2017, in an attempt to recognize trans and non-binary people – were called “an affront to women” at the time .

Jane Solomon, Emojipedia’s “senior emoji lexicographer,” outlined the new emoji in a blog post titled “Why is there a pregnant man emoji?”

“The new pregnancy options can be used to represent trans men, non-binary people or women with short hair — although the use of this emoji is obviously not limited to these groups,” she said.

‘Men can be pregnant. This is true for the real world (for example, trans men) and for fictional universes (for example, Arnold Schwarzenegger in (1994 film) “Junior”).

“People of any gender can also be pregnant. Now there are emojis that represent this.”

For now, Unicode will keep the more conventional “pregnant woman” emoji, which has been an emoji since 2016.

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