This post is about Google thinking for you. Google has come up with this feature called Mail Goggles which is basically a way of trying to keep people from sending emails they don't really want to send. And I quote...
"Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can't always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we're launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help.Personally, I can see the use for this but I think there's much more of a need for this feature on cellphones. How many of you have been drunk-dialed late at night by somebody on some dumb ish? Or not even drunk-dialed but just called because someone is in a ridiculous emotional state? I'm not gonna run to my Google account to send a drunken email. I'm more likely to do this over a phone call or a text message. Perhaps this Mail Goggles feature is just a bit ahead of its time and since I don't use the web browser on my phone I'm just not getting it. Nevertheless, I think it'll help mostly people who sit in the house at 1am on a weekend night getting drunk while watching pRon on their computers.When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?"
Meanwhile, most folks will be out drunk-dialing and drunk-texting while leaving whatever soireé they happen to be attending.
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No kidding... then again, I fully expect to open my email account on Saturday with a host of emails from my friend's iPhones. They're about the only ones that can shoot off a completely inappropriate email from their phone with quickness to make the Blackberry take a sick day.
Drunk-dialing and drunk-texting! Wow, how true is that, and I have received quite a few of them. Interesting, maybe you should pitch this idea to Google, better yet Sober-text it to them!
It's a double-edged sword because some of those drunk dials/texts turn out to be a good thing (if you know what I mean).
Well how "good" of a thing are we talking? You're telling on yourself M.C. After all, what happens in text stays in text, right?
It's a difference between telling on yourself and not giving a f*ck, LOL.
;-)
I'm just saying, it's a double-edged sword because sometimes a drunk text or drunk dial is a booty call and other times it's some random drunk ish.
"I'm just saying, it's a double-edged sword because sometimes a drunk text or drunk dial is a booty call "
You mean a drunk booty call and then drunk sex....okay, I don't know where I was going with that one...LOL!
You're with me now, LOL.
i just got one of those the other day. a drunk voicemail. NOT a good thing.
I agree. Well, in most cases. In some cases though....just see my comment above.
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