An open letter to Gmail
September 18th, 2004 | by Scott Jennings |Dear Gmail,
Boy, do I love your new innovative approach to e-mail. It’s fantastic. I’ve made it my new primary address, I dig it so much. Big ups to you, Gmail.
Now please stop giving me invitations to give to my friends. I’m all out of friends. Hell, I’m all out of strangers. Seeing those half-dozen invites sitting in my inbox makes me feel like a friendless loser, Gmail, and it’s just not true. And should I strike up a conversation with the stockboy in the grocery store or track down a classmate from third grade and manage to give all my invites away, then why must I wake up to a fresh half-dozen invites? Why? You’re making me feel like that ancient Greek guy who couldn’t finish his task or whatever. For serious.
Invites used to be cool and hard to come by, Gmail, but now you’ve just gone ahead and flooded the market with them. That’s your call, I guess, and I suppose it means that you’re feeling pretty good about this so-called “public beta.” Hooray for you. Now just end the beta and make it public and please don’t make me sell your awesome e-mail service any more.
Also, your service is very fast and very clever and I like it very much.
Thanks,
Scott
