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Dear RIM,
Oh the joys of Paste. So wonderfully useful when you want to ask different people the same question, or for copying a long URL, or when showing your friend the scathing yet witty response you wrote to your ex-best friend who wore your missing Marc Jacobs skirt to that party that there are 100 pictures of on Facebook...
But one of the funniest design peculiarities of the BlackBerry is that when you copy a piece of text you are typing, and then you finish typing and want to send your message, the first option when you hit the menu key is Paste. This may make sense as a short cut for 9 year olds enthralled by typing Hello or Lol as many times as they can before their hands get tired (you did that too, right?) but for all adult and semi-adult users of the BlackBerry (young women and men, respectively) you copy text to paste it SOMEWHERE ELSE. It is very rare that you would need to use the same string of words twice in one transmission of a text, BBM, or email, so why would Paste show up instead of the normal thing you expect to see when you hit the menu key, which is Send??
Instead, it just becomes like that table corner you always try to remember not to bump into. But your thumb works faster than your brain sometimes and then you invariably have to delete the second half of "Hurry up or else we're not going to get in!! We have too many guys with us.Hurry up or else we're not going to get in!! We have too many guys with us."
So please, though it was a nice gesture to make Paste the default menu option after somebody copies text--yes, it demonstrates an almost psychic understanding of the Copy-Paste behavior pattern--it ends up being much more disruptive to our goals of constant and efficient connectivity. And I'm all for speed of course, but I'd rather navigate to Paste on my own.
Sincerely,
Tara Raffi
EnthusiastEnthusiast
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