What are currently your most frustrating pieces of useful technology and why ?

[KL70]

What are currently your most frustrating piece/s of 'useful' technology
(whatever your serious or humorous definition of that is) and please say
why, for anything mentioned.

 

[xSauronx]

now you cant just start this and not mention your own.

cell phones. theyre useful, and monstrously annoying at times.

 

[Ghouler]

e-mail and facebook top my list.

e-mail: for spam
facebook: for all vimpire bites and other crap designed to entertain half-brained 1 year students

I also hate mobiles at this stage for their cluttered interface, small fonts and tonnes of useless features