Emails have been a great way to be in touch with loved ones and maintain relationships better but there is a dark side to it as is found in every other medium. When mobile phones became widely used most relationship were further cemented but in some instances an sms, call records, missed calls and even wrong number triggered breakdown of long term relationships. Emails too can have negative impact on your personal as well as professional life. How many times have you found yourself wishing you could somehow stop the email that you have just sent to your boss mistakenly? Depending on the content of the mail the consequence could range from mild embarrassment to a professional jeopardy.
This CNN report quoting Death by Email attributes the cause of most of these erring e-mail to carelessness on the part of the sender, especially when the sender is not typing the e-mail addresses. And its not just the misdirected e-mails either, sending mails to the intended recipient but at the wrong time can be equally dangerous. Mails sent to a former lover, current love interest, immediate boss or anyone who matters, late in the night, and especially during the weekend often result in regretful Monday mornings. Those mails you sent while under intoxication may cause greater damage than being booked for DuI. Its not just intoxicants that influence you into sending those self-damning mails, depression at times can be equally if not more dangerous than substance induced stupor.
Google Labs has implemented a new feature called Mail Goggles to check if you are sober enough to be sending the mail. The mechanism is pretty simple, when you click "send", it asks you to solve some simple math problems to determine if you are drunk or not. By default this feature is active only late in the night on the weekend but you can change the schedule from the settings. Well, it may work for Jon Perlow, the Google engineer who designed this Gmail add-on, i am not sure if it would be the same for me or not. But im going to find out soon, getting drunk would be the first step :D
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