Everyone is talking about it, the whole blogosphere is filled with news about GMail goggles and everyone is so thrilled about it. Umm…sorry guys but i don’t share your excitement. In my opinion this is a stupid feature.

So basically the GMail team implemented this feature to prevent people from sending accidental messages while being drunk.

When Goggles is active in order to send a message you will have to answer some maths questions in a specified time frame(you can set the difficulty and the time when Goggles is active).

The PC(and in some cases the MAC) isn’t a cellphone on which with your eyes closed even in alcoholic coma you can send a TXT message. One thing’s for sure: when your drunk you don’t sit down in front of the PC,login to gmail and start sending crazy emails, when your drunk you can’t even hit the correct buttons.

My personal opinion about this is that either some of the guys from the GMail team can think clearly and compose messages while they are drunk after a friday night party or they simply ran out of ideas.

Lets look at the facts: GMail has been in Closed and Open beta for like 4 years now. As far as i know your keeping a product in beta while your testing it and adding new features and facilities which you don’t consider stable and consider that they need testing and enhancements.

The brand new gmail is the best email account provider that you could choose. It beats yahoo at security and features, it’s more simple to use and runs on the AJAXSLT framework, by this way giving the user even more flexibility.Gmail has millions of users worldwide, and yet Google is still keeping it in BETA. Weird isn’t it?

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