I use Gmail and today I noticed in my email window Google's announcement of this new feature.
The announcement in my email window is in bold red text:
New! Gmail Custom Time
The above link goes to Google's announcement page.
Google has come up with a way for their Gmail users to monkey with the date stamp of their email messages. An example they give is like say you missed your Grandmother's birthday by a couple of days. You can send your Grammy an email wishing her a happy birthday and pre-date it back to her actual birth date!
Now get this: There is an option you can choose that will have the email arrive in her inbox as "read". You can fool your poor Grammy into thinking that she read your "ontime" greeting but she forgot she read it! Now your Grammy will think she is suffering from dementia.
Here is a testimonial of one guy's cheating right from the Google announcement page linked above:
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"I just got two tickets to Radiohead by being the 'first' to respond to a co-worker's 'first-come, first-serve' email. Someone else had already won them, but I told everyone to check their inboxes again. Everyone sort of knows I used Custom Time on this one, but I'm denying it."
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What the fuck is Google up to?
Does anyone else besides me think this is way out of line?
Read the announcement page carefully. Is anyone else picking up the disdain for honesty that Google seems to have developed?
What arrogance has Google's multi-billion dollar valuation bought them?
Are they getting me all fired up over a joke? I can't actually find the new feature in my Gmail as the page indicates I should. Any Gmail users out there might want to check it out. But no Cheating!