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Just for a single day, Gmail users were able to choose 'drop the mic' during email conversations.
"Simply reply to any email using the new 'Send + Mic Drop' button. Everyone will get your message, but that's the last you'll ever hear about it. Yes, even if folks try to respond, you won't see it."
If you used this feature, you could find the [replies] in [the] 'all mail' tab, but they would remain absent from the typical notifications. As a result, many people easily missed their mails.
Google [thought up] this prank to give you some kind of relief. If you felt [you were] being unnecessarily [...] tagged in an email, [you could say] goodbye to that email thread forever.
But, according to the claims made by a writer called Allan Pashby, he ended up losing his job, as he sent an email with [the] mic drop GIF to his boss. Pushy wasn't so lucky and his boss took offence and fired him with an angry voice mail.
The placement of the button could be held responsible for this backlash, as it sat directly next to the default Send button.
"Accidentally hit this new 'mic drop' button halfway through composing a professional email. Dying to remove this thing", wrote one user on Google's product forum.
Another user wrote, "This is horrible--just sent an email to a client with this stupid icon on it. I can't afford these stupid pranks!"
Considering the fact that it was April Fool's Day, many of these claims could be fake. However, keeping in [...] mind the possibility of some outrage, Google has removed the feature from Gmail:
"Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year. ?? Due to a bug, the MicDrop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs. We're truly sorry. The feature has been turned off. If you are still seeing it, please reload your Gmail page."
Previously: Google April Fool's Gmail Button Sparks Backlash.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 05 2016, @06:31AM
In the social media era, tolerance doesn't exist. Every issue is a polarizing issue. You either like or dislike, friend or unfriend. You better hope everything you do earns a like, or your boss will unfriend you and then you're fired.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday April 05 2016, @06:49AM
I ignore a lot of stuff on the internet, don't feel that polarized at all... Maybe it's not the internet but you? Or your personal bias-bubble?
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 05 2016, @06:55AM
Your personal bias is to ignore stuff that feels polarized, and you don't feel polarized? I WONDER WHY.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 05 2016, @06:51AM
Case in point.
sign of the times (Score:-1, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 05, @02:31AM (#327450)
In the social media era, tolerance doesn't exist. Every issue is a polarizing issue. You either like or dislike, friend or unfriend. You better hope everything you do earns a like, or your boss will unfriend you and then you're fired.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday April 05 2016, @08:53AM
Well, if you actually take it serious to be modded "Troll" by one stranger, than yes. In that case, Internet is a violent, totally polarized place full of online terrorists [for you and probably a bunch of others]. For me it's not :-) (Although I do appreciate a positive rating once in a while, and when I keep being modded down at some point it would make me think.) As the saying goes, "if someone calls you a fool, laugh at him. If two different people call you a fool, think about it. If many people call you a fool, better start looking for a nice green patch."
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday April 05 2016, @05:25PM
Nah, they must've just hit the wrong button by mistake.
--MIC DROP--