How Simple Instructions can be Messed Up (Ramblin about)

Let's set the stage...

You are currently in the process crafting a multi-page essay that you are pretty dedicated on. Reasonably, you want to make sure your essay is refined to the best it can be, so you send it to your friends for revision. You don't ask for much, just to critique and modify the document if necessary. It is a copy of your word file after all, nothing to get confused about. Except, one of your friends comes back with their revisions, which are practically invisible to the eye unless you reread both your copy and their revised copy back to see what they have changed.

What I described was what I personally experienced about an hour ago, and while yes, I was frustrated, I took some important insights from it.

1. People have different viewpoints and contexts on certain words. When I said to "modify the document" to my friend, I thought they would make their changes noticeable by using a different text, some sort of commenting or suggestion feature, highlighting the text, making the text a different color. Instead my friend modified my document with no discernible changes at first glance. Now I can just compare and contrast, but that takes up time to find every change made, which wouldn't be a problem if that person made their text noticeable
2. This goes into the text editor they used, which was the simplest text editor packaged in with every OS. Why did they do this and not use google docs?  Well I said that didn't know if the word file I sent him was compatible (it probably is but I haven't checked, and in hindsight they realized that they could just paste the content if they wanted) with google docs, and he decided to take the further precaution to not use google docs, and with no other text editor at convenient hand, he just used the system's one. I now understand why instructions sometimes have to be very comprehensible and handhold at times, because of situations where you think its expected for one person to do one thing, but instead they do another thing instead.
3. Despite all this frustration, you can always try to turn that anger into something more productive. For this weeks blog I didn't know what I should do for tonight because I've been busy this week. The current situation, for how minuscule, has brought me a lot of insight, knowledge, and experience that I can use to privately vent about in this blog, thus CONTENT.