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No More Drunk Emails

Posted: October 7th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Cool Ideas | Tags: , , , | 7 Comments »

We’ve all been there. You’ve had a good night at the bar and you’ve successfully arrived back home. Yet, instead of going straight to bed, you think it’s a good idea to turn on your computer and see what’s going on on the internet. So, you check you email and have the “brilliant” idea to email an ex. You string together what you believe is hilariously poetic prose and then you pass out happy as a clam. And then you wake up the next morning with drunk-breath and immediate regret. Regret and shame. Shame that’s been documented and can be forwarded to all of your ex-girlfriend’s friends. But I digress…

Well, no more! Google released a useful new Gmail feature yesterday in its labs, which could help prevent the intoxicated from sending embarrassing late-night emails they “might” regret in the morning.

When activated, the program will force a user to solve a series of math problems before allowing any message to be sent. They are not terribly difficult, but do serve as an extra line of defense in what can be a very dangerous habit. The service is set by default to kick in only on weekend nights, but you can change the settings to apply whenever.

As for drunk dialing and texting… well, I’m not exactly an expert at preventing that. So, if you have some advice in that area, I’d be happy to hear it.

- Christian

7 Comments on “No More Drunk Emails”

  1. 1 Nish said at 7:56 pm on October 8th, 2008:

    I think Google has been reading my blog!

    http://inspiredideas.org/archives/the-weekend

  2. 2 Chris said at 10:26 pm on October 9th, 2008:

    YOu know, there’s something I’ve wanted to tell you fora lonng time…I just never had the guts to say it befor enow…

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  3. 3 Chris said at 8:31 am on October 10th, 2008:

    Um, any mechanisms in place to prevent drunk posting?

  4. 4 Christian said at 11:28 am on October 10th, 2008:

    @ Nish

    Now you need to get Facebook to read your blog and then they can do something about it.

    @ Drunk Chris

    Don’t worry about the $5. And I think we all agree now that red capes are a bad idea.

    @ Sober Chris

    No way! Drunk posting is an inspiration to us all.

  5. 5 Fletcher Mason said at 10:09 am on May 20th, 2009:

    One of these days some pub-rocker (the likes of Billy Bragg, Graham Parker, Squeeze) is gonna write a song about drunk e-mailing.

    Strange post, huh? And I’m sober.

  6. 6 Jordan said at 3:52 pm on July 10th, 2009:

    Really enjoyed reading this thank you!

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