Fellow Baltimore blogger, DaBrettman has a less than usual perspective on Gmail and what seems to be the standard blogger practice of giving away Gmail invites to whomever wants them:
I have a new policy. If you send me an e-mail from anything other than a @gmail.com address you're getting a gmail invite. I'm sick of seeing the link to give away invites and I'm tired of the google people moving the link all of the screen in order to make sure I see it and get rid of the invites. Those people must not know that the only people without gmail accounts these days are those who are adamantly opposed to them and homeless people without access to computers. And I bet even a fair percentage of bums have gmail accounts. And crackheads too.
Personally, I horde my invites. I like to see how many can get without handing them off to any ramdom electronic passersby. I have only given them to people I know, from work or family, or friends, who either know I have them and have asked, or to whom I have wanted to give one just because I felt like it.
So, let it be known. I have Gmail invites, but I am not giving them to you. Unless, of course, you would be willing to pay for all the infertility treatments we are going through right now. Then we can talk about one, or maybe two if I am feeling generous.
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