You Will be Assimilated
...if google has anything to say about it. Not content to be the main intermediary between us and humanity's collective on-line knowledge, google is now hell-bent on indexing all of our personal communications as well. I have come to this conclusion after logging into gmail three or four times; I've only sent one message from the account, and they're already trying to have me invite six more people into their data-mining operation. It's like a pyramid scheme, but instead of taking our money, google wants our hopes, dreams, fears, and salable demographic info. Of course the person who gets others involved doesn't get a cut, so it isn't really a pyramid scheme.

At least, that's what the paranoid side of my brain says. Others may see things differently, so if there's anybody out there not yet colonized by the gmail empire who wants a free, fast webmail account with lots of storage space that will also make your personal info available to a newly-public search company, drop me a note.
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