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

[inuki42.livejournal.com]

Ditto my comment to Reuven - why should I want one? Between AIM, a college email account with (apparently) unlimited send/receive, and a bit of webspace, I have no need of the file-sending capabilities. I'm not even up to half storage on my 2MB Hotmail account yet, and a lot of that is probably stuff that can be safely deleted or was overlooked and should be deleted. Changing accounts would be a huge hassle - I've had this account for three years or more, and everything I need or want shows up there. The spam filter is actually rather effective, so despite the slowly increasing amounts of spam I'm receiving, I have no trouble keeping up with it. Moving would require informing everyone of my new address, or setting up forwarding, or something equally silly.

So why should I want one, other than for the name? Convince me that I want one and I'll enter your contest. (Since I have a vague feeling you might have at least one invite hanging around for a while.)

[jennekirby.livejournal.com]

I'm cute! And I'll give you hugs whenever I next see you! And I'll give you a place to stay if you ever visit Portland! Also, I'm too lazy to actually ever clean out my college account and it's dangerously close to filling up, and they're going to switch mail providers to something I'll probably like less soon!

Also, I know where my exclamation point key is! (Maybe that's a disincentive, actually.)

[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.