April’s Fools and Google

Did I just go back in time to write this post? No, I did not! I’m writing this today April 1st as a prediction… Google’s new custom time feature for Gmail is an April’s Fools prank. They would bring the end of the Internet as we know it if it were true. Every year, Google pranks people in the most creative of ways… and definitely, “time traveling” Email is one of the best ones

First of all, the quotes they use from happy costumers are all about people who are being deceitful. A good example:

“I just got two tickets to Radiohead by being the ‘first’ to respond to a co-worker’s ‘first-come, first-serve’ email. Someone else had already won them, but I told everyone to check their inboxes again. Everyone sort of knows I used Custom Time on this one, but I’m denying it.”

Also, Email is used to send essays to instructors or as proof in cases of copyright. If you could send emails back in time, email would just lose any of it’s “official-ness.”

So, yes… I guess I’ll come back later and make this post into a “Pagan Origins of April’s Fools” post.

Btw, my best friend woke me up today telling me she was pregnant… and kept me on the phone torturing me asking me what to do. And all I could think of was Juno, I swear to God. Anyway, she was just pranking me, but point is that… thanks to that phone call, I don’t believe in anything today… not even if it is from the gods themselves at Google (or should I say SPECIALLY if it comes from Google).

Hmmm, I should have just pranked you, shouldn’t I?

-Alex