The Good and Bad of Gmail and New Comments

It's never particularly bothered me that Google owns my soul, and while I understand about the concern for privacy in principle, my own privacy has never been a topmost concern of mine. I would only have a deep and profound sympathy for any poor fool sent to monitor my life. I like to think I'm not a boring person, but I suspect I would be if one were looking for exciting criminal action.

Since these are generally the main problems people have with Google, I'm usually pretty okay with them. And I still am really. I like the fact that if you send an email on one subject to several people you don't get nine hundred responses on the same thing. But it just took me a moment to realize that my sister was not the only one to email me. Which could have been bad. And there's something to be said for having an inbox filled with messages from people you actually like. It's a visually pleasing thing. But organizationally I suppose this is better.

And by popular demand (or agreement I suppose) I have decided to enable the word verification step which will apparently look like the picture above. But if there are any problems or someone who hasn't chimed in yet doesn't like it (unless you're a spammer), let me know!

Thanks for the support!

Friend of the Week: Brian (Because you're not a spammer)