And Google has done it again. Finally with the release of the new Google desktop, we see the introduction of the "Sidebar" As useful as the sidebar is to the public, I doubt that most of us really use the information on it. Maybe I should rephrase the the above statement. What I meant to say is that, do you really want to be checking your email every 3 seconds? Or do you really want to know the latest news every 5 seconds? Or do you really want to "view your photos" everytime you glance at the sidebar? What I mean to say is...are people really that jobless to jump at the sidebar and read the latest news just because its the very latest news? Its like a competition to be the first person to click on the latest news. After clicking it, people would go like...
"HAH...I clicked on it first. I bet I'm the first one to click it in the whole world"
Then he'd PM his idiot friend on Google talk (Who'd also be red-eyed awaiting the latest news)
News clicker: "Guess who clicked on the 'Retard drowns himself' link first?"
Red-eye: "Oh NO!...not AGAIN"
News clicker: "Who's the best? YEEAAH, thats right...I'm the BEST!"
Red-eye: "I'm gonna get the next one...no matter WHAT!!"
And so it continues...
And as for the email bar. All I can say is, where's the fun in reading an email as soon as it is sent? The moment its sent, you'd receive it, and reply back within the next 30 seconds. You might as well PM him on Google talk, he's just there. Just click him and reply back...but NOOOO, you have to reply by email. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked. The point is, that people used to check their emails only when they were in the mood to; or when they had time to reply to mail. Thats why people go to all the trouble of checking their email. Its because they are excited to get new mail. They want to see who's been trying to contact them. It makes them feel important. And thats part of everyone's ego. We are all ego machines, and this ego needs to be fed by receiving email so that we feel important. So everytime an email is sent, and "Sidebar" notifies you, how can the stupid machine know when to feed your ego? It all depends on your mood and how you feel at that particular time. If the "All knowing Sidebar" is so smart, why would it pop-up with "You have received 1 New Message" when in fact you feel harrassed because your boyfriend just dumped you (by email) and you're just in the mood to kick the next bloody emailer right up to bloody Mars?
This crux of the matter is that you don't HAVE to know that you have received "One New Message" the moment you receive it. Oh Suuuure....the new technology is awesome, and everyone's downloaded the sidebar and clicking at every little thing that pops up...but all I say is, give it a little time, and then we'll see people going like, "Yeah, its ok; but I kept getting a lot of spam" or "It takes up 10% of my screen" or "I uploaded photos of me and ma gurl on the computer. But I din think it'd show when pa used the computer. And what I'm getting to say is....he saw one picture of me and ma gurl, which I get to thinking, he din approve of....Nope.... Nooooo Siiirreee... He din approve AT ALL"
