Drinkin' and emailin'
Google is looking out for you.
... just like that college friend who held your hair back while you ralphed up a night of Jager, or the buddy who kept you from taking home that "special someone" who was likely to give you coyote arm the next morning.
From ABC:
Many a relationship has been prolonged -- and perhaps many a career has been cut short -- by the dreaded drunken e-mail.But now, Google's new motto seems to be "think before you drink and draft."
And to help keep e-casualties to a minimum, it has launched a new program to stop users from e-mailing under the influence.
Launched Monday, Mail Goggles (a playful riff on Beer Goggles) asks you to complete a few simple math problems within 60 seconds before you're allowed to send off your late-night missives.
If you can make it through the math, your message goes on its merry way and you can continue to e-mail without further checks, although there's no stopping your text messages.
Never been a problem. Right fellas? Girls?
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