Weeby is giving me a hard time. It refuses to load completely on my laptop. Not only that but I can’t get them to help me fix the problem because I am CHEAP. For the last year I have been taking advantage of their free website option. It was perfect. The site was easy to use and you could reach an actual person to help should something bad happen. I accidently erased all of my postings at one point and a very helpful man found them for me. He then informed me that because I was using the free site option, I could no longer take advantage of the phone help, I would have to send a message instead. Fast forward to my recent need for help: I sent a message informing Weebly that the site won’t load and they sent an answer 24 HOURS LATER that instructed me to clear my cache and cookies. I dutifully followed their directions but it doesn’t help. I am upset. I would like to send a message back telling them where, exactly, they can put my cookies but I don’t want to be rude. As for my being cheap, along with their advice, they suspiciously sent a coupon for upgrading my site to a payed site which would allow me to actually talk to someone on the phone about my problems. This, of course, would be my computer problems, not my emotional problems although lately the two seem to be intersecting. I don’t think it costs that much but it does irritate the heck out of me. I don’t have a fancy blog. I don’t sell anything and I don’t put ads on my site. I don’t actively pursue billions of followers. I just enjoy writing and I’m grateful for my 15 or so regular readers. So for now, until I either figure out the problem by myself or give in to paying for my site, I am forced to edit my blog on my ipad. This is not ideal. Recently Weebly introduced an app for editing on an ipad. Actually they forced me to download this app because they won’t let me edit by just bringing up the Weebly site anymore. The app has some good qualities and some bad qualities. It is set up to make it very easy to LOOK at my blog, but not so easy to EDIT. I mean what’s the POINT ????? As a little old lady, I have tried hard to embrace the computer age. What seems like a lifetime ago I bought my first computer. It was an apple clone and was basically a glorified typewriter. I didn’t go on the internet because there was no internet. I used it for word processing. It was a miracle! I could correct things without using white-out! I could “cut and paste” without scissors and a bottle of rubber cement! I could print on my dot-matrix printer and watch the pages neatly roll out into the catch basket. I had to tear the strips of holes off of the sides of the paper and separate the accordion folded pages but it seemed magical at the time. I appreciate the fact that my current computer can literally sit in my lap and I can tuck my ipad into my purse when I travel, but I hate being at the mercy of a site like Weebly. I know they think they are making “improvements” but it doesn’t feel that way from my little old lady perspective. I will probably have to give in and fork out the bucks. It’s easier than typing on a typewriter and mailing out carbon copies of my blog by snail mail.
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