If I Think It’s Broken, It’s Broken
Last week, my sister asked me wether she might break something by sending an e-mail without a subject.
She knows how to use a computer, how to surf, how to send an e-mail, but she clearly thinks the Internet is so fragile that not filling one of the three fields Gmail shows would impact the delivery of the message.
While we could overanalyze this message box (why not kindly explaining the situation here?), let me remind you that while it failed to replace Gmail, the only thing Google Wave simplified in the process of sending e-mails is it didn’t offered more than one field.
(yes, I went back to nowhere land just for a screenshot.)
Since nowadays, the n00bs use Facebook Messages instead of Gmail, even for professional e-mails, I think yesterday’s event was a big deal:
Add this to the recent Facebook Secret Groups feature and you have your replacement for casual e-mail. I’m sure it will replace that 10-recipients e-mail my friends always reply to every week so that they don’t to forget anyone in the list.
(the title of this post is a quote from Seth Godin’s amazing talk “It’s Broken”.)
