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The Gmail Conspiracy Theory
submitted on 27th Jun 2004. A part of Articles. submit an article
written by owen
By the time you read this every nerd, computer freak and apple mac user will have a gmail account. The idea is as ingenious as it is simple. Lure a select few into the system then let them invite others of their kind. By 12 pm July 2004 google will have in it's member datastore the most comprehensive list of web developers, programmers, designers, internet users and beta testers ever compiled.
Stage 2
All gmail has to do now is stop giving out invites before the list get polluted with the normal people - people who use email to send chain letters and silly pictures to each other. But maybe gmail is smart than this maybe it can tell the smart people from the others and so forth be able to expand there member database indefinitely without destroying it's integrity.
The Next Stage
Nobody outside the circle knows what gmail plans to do in the future. What ingenious forms of data mining algorithms will be developed. We can only hope for the best.
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I think you might be on to something there, Owen.
by Allen ( Mon, 28th Jun 2004 at 3:54 am )
So you think Gmail is too creepy?
by MaThIbUs ( Mon, 28th Jun 2004 at 2:14 pm )
the whole never delete email thing is ok, I gots no problem with that
by owen ( Mon, 28th Jun 2004 at 7:54 pm )
useless talent #32
I think you mean "others of their kind" ;) hehe sory I hate it when people point that stuff out to me.
Interesting ideas though!
by Matt ( Tue, 29th Jun 2004 at 4:27 pm )
do you want a gmail account? I got some invites left....hehe
by david ( Thu, 01st Jul 2004 at 11:08 am )
"and apple mac user will have a gmail account"
heh heh. are you an apple mac user owen? ;) I agree with you. I think its a big conspiracy. But, its a mighty clever one.
by pointybeard ( Thu, 01st Jul 2004 at 10:04 pm )
interestig theory. theres lots of google hype out there, what with what theyre doing. and for a good reason too. if you want, i can send you an invite;)
by LEX ( Wed, 22nd Sep 2004 at 7:41 pm )
They are working on a new Google Tree. It'll show how everyone is linked, who your friends are, and find out how many degrees of separation exist and how long it takes word of mouth to spread in the internet community.
by G Deezy ( Tue, 05th Oct 2004 at 1:36 pm )
i have some invites, if you want one email me : mcgui0r at gmail.com
yours faithfully
Mcguir3 - Spy for goo.... =/
by Mcguir3 ( Tue, 19th Oct 2004 at 8:54 am )
"dont be evil" is the motto of the creaters of google. They are humble, ride there bikes to work and still live in apartments, dispite there millions.
what other company do you know that has a similar motto?
I trust gmail. I do believe they have a reason for getting all the hackers, coders ect. using there email service. Could be to help with bug fixes. Could be something else.
There is NO company I trust more then google. If Google is not legit, then NONE of them are.
(we all know most are NOT).
by 1337 ( Tue, 01st Feb 2005 at 1:02 pm )
never delete an email again: so that there is a complete vast history of email in one central repository on US soil...
may be this is so that the US government have more information on the suspected "global terror networks" hiding out in their underground secret lairs like... James Bond style.
nah but seriously, you can't trust em. I mean, the FBI raided an internet service provider in the UK and took the uk indymedia.org servers due to "suspected terrorism" things. Just imagine if they nabbed the gmail servers. Think of all the information about the organisers of disent and details of people who don't think that the US has a right to be terrorising the rest of the world like it is doing man! Scarey stuff. Be paranoid!
by Paranoia ( Mon, 14th Mar 2005 at 8:21 am )
Do I really care if the US government reads an email from me to my friends telling them how i banged a girl and her sister the same night and have it all on an MPEG video? Hell no, Mr.Bush can blow his wad all over his monitor till his heart's Content. If you're not into terroisom, why do you care if they read your emails unless you're doing something u shouldn't be. If thats the case, don't use any email at all :P
by Load ( Thu, 14th Apr 2005 at 6:18 pm )
information is power. Spys not only spying on terrorists. also on companies and the like that do business legally are interesting and so is people who figth for human rigths and enviromental things (because they endangeror the business of the Ustates [which is hell of a lot on weapons and oil and drugs])
by pain ( Sun, 15th May 2005 at 5:55 am )
You were probably stockpiling food and fuel for the Y2K bust too.
by Gmail user ( Thu, 26th May 2005 at 3:39 pm )
If your theory is correct, i don't really mind being part of whatever happens... its time for something exciting anyway. couple of notes though on previous replys, an email does not have to be sent to be used by multiple users and thus used to build a social network, this aspect has been exploited many times my hacker groups and i believe terrorists also. take into account aswell the ammount of people that read this, and the ammount of people with a gmail account the comparison a ratio of what about 1:10 000 000?? so on that note, the power that google has Vs people aware of potential threats... is quite insignificant, so we can't do a hole lot except maybe not use gmail... can you be bothered, who's to say all popular web-based email companies don't do similar things anyway?
by h_black ( Sat, 24th Sep 2005 at 1:51 am )