Yesterday I saw the Official Gmail Blog post about a new “Mail Goggles” feature, designed to prevent Gmailers from sending that drunken “late night Friday email.” I chuckled, assuming that the jokesters at Google couldn’t wait until April 1 to launch another yuk-fest of a fake feature. I did notice a few news stories about the feature, but I didn’t think much of it.
And then just now on the KCRA morning news I saw Walt Gray report on it. Ha! I thought, just wait until I blog the heck out of this hilarious small town bumble from the gullible yoyos at the local news station. Before I did that, however, I searched again for news stories. Hmm, doesn’t seem like Information Week would fall that easily. Much less Wired. More importantly, the feature does appear in my Gmail settings. It was not a joke at all.
What? This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Sure, I suppose it qualifies as “useful,” but it’s just so damn silly–geared for the intoxicated, set to be enabled on weekends only. I’m definitely not saying that because I was duped. Duped into thinking it was a hoax. 🙂 Oh Google, you have bested me this time.
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whooo thhee helll wood needd somting as stupidd as that. I um..oh crap what waas I gonna rite..
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It was on Fox40 yesterday so…some news station that claims to be “first” got it a little late 😛
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This feature does me no good, as I am consistently snookered.
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Some anonymous Matthew: I totally also saw it on Gmail.com on Tuesday also!!
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OMG NO WAI!!!!!
Name’s Martin BTW.
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