I don’t know when exactly it happened, but sometime in the past week or so, my gmail inbox surpassed 10,000 messages. I delete the junk mail but save almost everything else, in case I need to reference it later. I remember having to delete messages from my UW account to make room under my 100MB limit. Ford was worse, your email would lock up at just 20MB. Safe to say I’ve eclipsed those numbers many times over.
I’ve been using gmail almost exclusively for nearly four years, and there is a great deal of personal and business history stored in those messages. And a great deal of trust placed in the almighty Google.
It’s scary to think what would happen if all those emails got erased. Or if Google shut it down. Or started charging for the service. How much would I pay? Google has so much accumulated data on nearly every Interet user, things could get ugly fast. It’s never good when one company has so much power. We can only hope they stick to their “Don’t be evil” mantra, although I have first-hand evidence that their definition of “evil” is open to interpretation. More on that later.
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