Our generation has far more advanced ways to embarrass ourselves and we are all for taking advantage of them.
After that first bottle of Shiraz or third glass of Texas Tea, it sometimes seems like a good idea to pour out every feeling you ever experienced about a certain person. If you are over drunk dialing, an text message is great, but an email is even better!
However, as you arise the next morning, wearing the same clothes and wondering why your face was glued to the keyboard, you begin to possibly regret emailing your mother pictures of your 21st birthday at that questionable establishment featuring scantily clad females. You decide that need NOT happen again.
Google agrees.
The innovative (particularly in recent months) Google employees have engineered an application that will (hopefully) prevent inebriated people from permanently scarring their reputations.
Mail Goggles is designed to halt any drunk emailing entirely. The application is simple: it makes you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind.
Unless you become a very fast, very talented math whiz while under the influence, Mail Goggles may be quite a force in drunk communication prevention.
Mail Goggles may be targeted at drunkies right now, but this could also help you not send that angry email to your mother-in-law or your boss...no matter what state of mind you are in. Emails are forever, after all.
Kudos Google, for identifying a problem of the everyday man and attempting to solve them.
4 comments:
I love this post! Having been on the receiving end of such emails, thank heaven never the sender, I know what kind of damage they can do. I think the drunk email does way more harm than the drunk phone call because it so much easier, in my opinion, to open your phone and drunk call someone than to sit down, boot up your computer, log into your email, and write the email to send. That's a lot of reading for someone who is inebriated.
Wow! Google has really thought of everything. I never knew about drunk e-mailing, but oh how times have changed since my day! Drunk texting was the cool thing back then I guess! It seems like people are technologically savvier now and Google is only trying to keep up! Way to go Google!
Google DOES think of everything. Using math problems as the decisive factor in telling if people are too drunk to send an email is clever! I can't wait to see what Google comes up with next. Great post, Nyla! I had no idea Google was conjuring up this option.
That's funny because I read about this a while back and I was like...is it really that big of an issue that they've created a whole program that prevents it from happening? I mean, I guess better safe than sorry, but that's pretty crazy that enough people have to worry about sending drunk emails that google took notice and made sure that it didn't have to happen/embarrass them!
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