Darling, drunk dialing is SO early 2000s…

A couple months ago Google released “mail goggles,” a program that stops people from “drunk emailing” between 10pm and 4am.
The program makes you complete 5 arithmetic problems in 60 seconds before granting you access to send out any emails.
Um. I can barely do ONE basic math problem on a calculator in sixty seconds.

At first I was confused…I didn’t even realize “drunk emailing” was a social problem, but apparently it is in email-addict circles.
I guess when you factor in that a lot of people have iphones, sidekicks and blackberrys—which function as phone and email devices—emails can be thoughtlessly sent anytime and anywhere (including at 4am on the dance floor of a bar while you are wearing a coconut bra).
But seriously: who has a chronic drunk emailing problem?

I’m just going to say what we are all thinking: this program was created by computer NERDS, FOR computer NERDS.


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