Google mail started on 01 April 2004 and along with other
early adopters, this time #metoo started using this. In those early days an account
could only be registered via invitation and I was so much impressed by the
service and progressively increasing storage space that by 2006, Gmail became my
principle email address.
By launching Gmail on the 1st of April, Google have
their conscience clear! It was poor me who missed the cryptic message. I ought
to have realized the fact that if something is too good to be true then most
probably it’s not!
Today, all my important emails are stored within the limited
storage space of 15 GB available in the Google’s mail server. The good news is
that there is an option to purchase additional storage space although I am not
sure who benefit more from this option. Moreover the storage space is available
till one putting up the rental fees and there is nothing tangible that one can
take home.
I am having a fear that is growing in strength with each
passing day my intuition warns me that the day is not far when the user will be
asked to pay a fees for using Google’s email service. Until that time, instead
of paying the levied fees, the mail users have to be prepared to pay the price.
Yesterday’s news headline is a good example of such price.
“Google is scanning your Gmail inbox to keep a detailed list
of your purchases, and there’s no easy way to erase it”
Today they are scanning for purchases and soon it may expand
to banking, finance and everything else. The trouble is that are we in a
position to move out of Gmail….. We are already too vulnerable even to think
about that!
Google ka kya kare!
