Stop Sending Emails You Later Regret

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret

Gmail has added a new feature that helps to prevent inadvertent late night emails by having you complete math problems before it allows you to send the email. One of the key characteristic differences between web 0.0 (i.e. the phone) and web 2.0 tools are that what you emailed is forever etched in stone in someone’s inbox and therefore cannot be reversed. While this has not occurred to anyone in this class, I am sure that there are some undergraduates at different schools and perhaps certain divorcees that now wish they had this functionality.

What if there was an extra feature that slowed you down from emailing late at night over the weekends such as making you complete math problems? On the whole, I would assume that people that need this function know they need one and would therefore install the feature (i.e. Undergraduates). Perhaps this feature can be added to Evening MBA students before submitting papers such as “Did you include your name, class, title, page numbers and note in the email section to the professor before sending?”

Therefore while the initial intention was built for undergraduates, perhaps product modifications and alterations can be made to help other target segments as well.