Oct. 22- technical woes

I thought it would be a good idea to change my email account from hotmail to gmail. I've heard that it's the best and I have to admit, the idea of all the junk mail dropping off sounded good. So tonight I gave it a try and so far...not so good. Setting up the initial account went all smooth and fine, but working in it was not all that user friendly from my perspective. I do tend to get distracted easy, so it was partially my own fault that it was taking me so much time.

What happens is that you set up this new email account, then it takes all of the emails from your old one and transports them into your new one. As they were popping into the new gmail account, I noticed some that I must have missed and never read. One of them was from a friend from Colorado and the display text read, " Sweet...your booty looks awesome on that video on Facebook Karen". Obviously I had to open this email and then try to go to the link to my supposedly awesome video of my booty. Oops...really bad move!! It was a decoy to get me to launch some automatic security program which of course asked for immediate payment as well. It was a continuous circle of pop up windows that kept appearing everytime I would try to close them down. I finally had to shut down the entire computer and re-boot it to keep from buying the supposedly necessary hardware protection.

These are the things that keep me from trying new programs. It was annoying and frustrating and will keep me from ever opening anything again that has a tag line about my booty. I really don't go around having video shot of my booty so why I was tempted by this eludes me. But live and learn when it comes to the computer. It's a scary piece of technology.