Gmail

[metamorphage]

I seem to have been donated a Gmail account. :D I think I get to invite three more people, although I haven't found how I do such yet. Assuming this is true, I'm going to copy Reuven and have a contest.

By any means you wish, convince me that I should invite you to have a Gmail account.

Have fun!

(I'm not actually sure how many people on my friendlist still don't have accounts but want them, so this could be rather boring. Oh well.)

Comments

[coldufo.livejournal.com]

see, the thing with Gmail is...it sucks. you hafta agree to let them scan each e-mail sent and recieved and if they see a keyword like "computers", they put a text ad in the email such as "looking for a cheap computer? click here!" because the only way google stays so good is through companies paying so much money to be advertised anywhere humanly possible. also, this scanning means that, through a loophole, they have the right to read your emails. maybe they will, maybe they won't. but still, you're giving them the right too. now, that ain't cool. go with yahoo, the size of the account is great.

[metamorphage]

As Humza said so eloquently above: "But it's YAHOO. Don't you feel any shame using it?"

Besides, the Gmail account is just for experimentation, my main account is earthlink.net.

[coldufo.livejournal.com]

whats so bad about yahoo? i just use it for email cuz the account is big. i have the google toolbar's built-in pop-up blocker take care of pop-ups.

[inuki42.livejournal.com]

Heh, I bypass that too. I use Opera, with it set to "Allow only requested pop-ups," so if I click a link that's supposed to open a pop-up, it does, but nothing else. Plus I get awesome tabbed browsing, in a way that makes a lot more sense to me than Mozilla's. (I tried Firefox, or whatever the named browser is, and it's good, but it doesn't fit my browsing style.)

I'm all for consolidation whenever possible, especially if it means I get harassed less. I don't use MSN's messenger because it annoys me to death (pop-ups and whatnot), but having Yahoo's messenger and email integrated is wonderful. And my main Hotmail is linked on my homepage, which is a locally-stored custom link collection that I use all the time - hit the email link and it signs me in automatically. (Ah, the benefits of having your own computer.)

Though I've seen people elsewhere discussing gmail's interface, saying that it's incredibly intuitive and very fast (only one larger-than-icon-size image on the whole page). A screenshot or two might tempt me, though since it is still beta, I'm sure there's still issues.