- Working title
- Forms, Passwords and Other Small Humiliations
- Format
- Five Things
- Category
- Modern Life
- Subject tags
- Admin, Technology, Modern Life
- Core thought
- Modern admin has found many ways to make a capable adult feel temporarily useless.
- Real-world trigger
- Filling in an online form, failing a password rule or being locked out of an account for no sensible reason.
- Specific detail to use
- A password box rejecting a password for not having the right kind of punctuation.
- Discomfort or tension
- The irritation comes from having to obey a system that explains very little and quickly blames the user.
- Why it fits I Said
- This is I Said material because the thought is small, irritated and private rather than a full technology piece.
- Output direction
- Five plain examples of modern admin making a person feel smaller than the task deserves.