My Laptop Guardian is not qualified to help me unfortunately.

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No one can deny that digital technology is a great invention. Computers are such an intrinsic part of our life today that one can hardly imagine living without them. Yet, there were times, not so long ago, when life was much less complicated without them. Because, when things go wrong, I mean very wrong and you can’t fix it yourself, you need an expert to correct the wrong.

I’m coming to the point.

When something goes wrong with your WordPress blog, you don’t always get the help you need; you’re directed to FAQ, and if there’s no answer to your problem there, well, that’s it, you’re stuck, you can’t email anyone, let alone talk to anyone; you’re left at the mercy of the electronic brain that simply couldn’t care less if you’re tearing your hair out because you can’t get the message across.

This is what happened.

The other day my husband wanted to create a WordPress account in order to LIKE one of my posts (Fear – Third Version) and further down the track to create his own photo blog. He clicked on LIKE and a window appeared to log in or register.

He followed the instructions to register, put in his email address and ‘dimitricblog2014’ appeared in one of the boxes.

‘Ah, that’s nice,’ I said. ‘You’ve been given a temporary name for your blog.’

Then he chose a nice theme for a photo blog: ‘Espied’.

One click: Congratulations!

Next: create a Gravatar.

One click: Congratulations!

Two emails followed with congratulations, of course. One email asked for confirmation.

CLICK!

This was the fatal click. To my horror I saw my profile icon in the top bar: my husband now had full access to my account – WordPress attached him to my site. Not that I have any secrets, it’s the principle that annoys me; does that mean that anyone with my surname can be attached to my site?

Now I’ve got this phantom Gravatar, ‘dimitric2014’, I can’t get rid of. And I can’t even use it. It’s frozen in time, in that moment of confusion in the electronic brain of WordPress.

Has anything like that happened to anyone else?

I’d be most grateful if you could enlighten me or just empathise.

Thanks for reading.

Have a nice week! Cheers 🙂 Irina

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