dear people i actually like (and the one i don't),
ohhhh shit, look who got the hook-up... ;)
_______@gmail.com
please fuck with your palm pilots accordingly. thanks!
hope you are all well,
A,
who thinks state senator Liz Figueroa is a mewling, puling dork (read: unclear on the m.f. concept), even though she was Liz's favourite intern, back when Liz was just the humble assemblywoman from chandni chowk in the california legislature...
p.s. _________ is what my sorority/friends from davis call me.
p.p.s. "akka" is what my beloved sachin, virushini, and all other respectful south indian peeps call me...ask someone tamil.
p.p.p.s. please stop using
irockyourfuckingworld@anna.org,
i'mrickjamesbitch@playedout.com
etcetera ad nauseum.
if you were still using
lajp75@hotmail.com
... then lord help you, because that's been dead for two years.
p.p.p.p.s. this email address WILL still work, i'm just never going to check it. happy kwanzaa!
p.p.p.p.s. how am i, you ask? still not working, still not married, still not boring. thank you for wondering. ;)
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a few hours later...
anna,
you know this gmail stuff from google reads the email you write to friends/co-workers, and then spams you pop up ads based on your email right??
example, you write, "manav, seen finding nemo yet?" and the next thing you know, you've got the little mermaid all up in your inbox and in banner ads.
just letting you know,...but then again, maybe you like spam.
-Manav
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manav:
thanks for the unnecessary concern, but your facts are off.
what i find particularly interesting is how you unbelievably assume that i'd be thrilled about, gloat over, advertise something that is (in your eyes) so
...lame.
there ARE no pop-up ads...there is no spam...you are, on several significant levels, mistaken. there IS relevant, salient, contextual advertising, which is consummately superior to the bullshit adverts on yahoo and hotmail. i don't give a rat's ass about lava life or match.com...but that's all i see on those two providers, when i merely want to check my damned mail.
i accept this, however, b/c my email is free. life is a series of trade-offs, isn't it? but wait one bleeding minute...the one hotmail account i pay actual money for in order to get a paltry 20 megs of storage space...oh my...THAT has ads too! wtf? how dare they?
the american people are the ultimate definition of unreasonable. they want free services, but they'll bitch about reasonable transactions like advertising that subsidize their email-grubbing little fingers. are you really that worried about your privacy online? b/c unless you want me to call you a hypocrite, you'd BETTER have cookies disabled (damn, you'll have to fill in info over and over and over again), you should NEVER fill in demographic data and you'd do well to NEVER write anything more exciting than the most perfunctory vanilla-scented prose-- EVERYTHING exists forever on the internet. EVERYTHING. btw? that demographic data helps target...you guessed it, ADS. ads on those multitudes of other sites...the same ads that gmail has, except on gmail, they are superior. why will everyone meekly, wordlessly tolerate it on a million other URLs, but when it's on the sidebar of your gmail page...oh, well. we can't have THAT.
it makes no fucking sense.
but this is not about sense. no. it is about privacy. privacy my 19% body-fatted ASS.
there is merely the ILLUSION of privacy on the net. we are at its mercy, not vv. the hue and cry over gmail is so much bullshit vitriol sensationalised by a press that is rarely examined for its own bottom-line...news isn't a non-profit enterprise, it behooves the media to inflame the passions of ignorant retards who will then send messages such as these to long-suffering people like me. the media is a hemorrhoid that makes your ass itch, and this discomfort leads to unnecessary, sanctimonious virtual finger-waving in the faces of those who actually know what the fuck they are talking about.
read me now and remember me later: i love gmail's functionality--
~i will NEVER have to waste time looking for anything that my black little manav-resistant heart desires, ever again.
~i can easily "star" (read: flag) messages in a format that conforms to my unique needs. *my* stars are going to go to emails that i simply MUST reply to, no matter what. all of you who have been frustrated with my tardy replies...fear not, the future is here, and it looks like a van gogh painting.
~i will NEVER worry about running out of space in my inbox, and having msgs bounce back b/c i'm on vacation...
~nor will my credit card get groped for an annual fee for shitty ad-saturated hotmail.
~i won't mindlessly seek out missives from three days ago to see how a current email thread commenced, b/c, imagine this, it will be helpfully STACKED with the most recent message, as a real "conversation". et voila. instant context. my world-famous memory will grow dusty with neglect. ;)
etc, etc...ad infinitum.
if you insist on being needlessly punctilious regarding your precious privacy, feel free to utilise one of my other email accounts. i meticulously specified which of them would still exist, post- my conversion to gmail. happily for you, there is no need to compromise your enlightened ideals for worthless, clueless, spam-lovin' ME.
gmail is going to revolutionise webmail; its interface is pure elegance, its operation is beyond intuitive, its entire premise is genius. i'm not surprised though. it's from google. you know what else is hardly surprising? how much i love the ultimate oracle of everything. i sweat google the way i sweat ivy league chem e's...i'm aroused by the best of the best.
cordially,
anna
p.s. enjoy this excerpt from a FANTASTIC article that totally has my six, MFs...oh...and appositely enough...i found this column via my home page-- GOOGLE NEWS.
"Finally, you've probably heard much of the hot air surrounding Google's plans to push ads at Gmail users. The first night we started using Gmail, late April 9, we saw the text ads, which were nearly identical to the text ads you're used to seeing in on the right side of the screen after a Web search at Google.com. As of this morning, we noticed no text ads at all.E-mail is an inherently insecure medium. For the most part messages are sent in the clear, meaning almost no attempt is made to obfuscate the contents of a message from someone with prying eyes. All Internet service providers store e-mail on a server in order to deliver it to you. Technicians with time on their hands and lousy ethics can--if they want--read your mail...Google insists quite clearly in its privacy policy that "No human reads your mail to target ads or other information without your consent." The process by which it pushes ads at its users is fully automated. Fears about privacy problems inherent with the Gmail service are, in our opinion, overblown. "
word, homey.