it seems like everyone is switching to gmail because it’s good and you got lots of space and well, because it’s made by google. it’s even got the aura of being official email, that is people are willing to put it on their resumes as if it were an academic email or something. but really, is gmail any different than a yahoo email address or a hotmail address?

sure you may have been able to get your full name @gmail.com because you were an early adopter, but nothing stops me from taking a random person’s name as my gmail address does it? especially considering it’s rumored that gmail is going public on april 1st 2005. it’s not that much more difficult to create say 50 dummy gmail accounts than hotmail accounts is it?

so why do people hold such high regard for gmail? is it the spam blocking? the killer ui? nah i think it’s the mystique of google which may not necessarily be justified.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: geeky, google, stereotypes, webgeek