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04-01-2016, 12:31 PM
Gmail's 'Mic Drop' prank backfires in a mortifying way, gets pulled
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Google is a pretty important company, offering pretty important services to a lot of people. So, messing with core functionality of one of their key services, Gmail, just for an April Fools' laugh is out of the question, right?
Wrong.
SEE ALSO: People think this David Cameron tweet is April Fools' joke (http://mashable.com/2016/04/01/april-fools-day-david-cameron/)
On Friday, Google quickly pulled the Gmail Mic Drop feature, which added a "send and mic drop" button to Gmail, allowing users to add a GIF of a Minion dropping a microphone to their emails.*
The problem with Mic Drop is that a lot of people inadvertently added the animated little guy to serious emails (see one particularly nasty example, below)
Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/01/gmail-mic-drop-prank-backfires/)
More about April Fools (http://mashable.com/category/april-fools/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mic Drop (http://mashable.com/category/mic-drop/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Gmail (http://mashable.com/category/gmail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/tSHiaDU52qM
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Google is a pretty important company, offering pretty important services to a lot of people. So, messing with core functionality of one of their key services, Gmail, just for an April Fools' laugh is out of the question, right?
Wrong.
SEE ALSO: People think this David Cameron tweet is April Fools' joke (http://mashable.com/2016/04/01/april-fools-day-david-cameron/)
On Friday, Google quickly pulled the Gmail Mic Drop feature, which added a "send and mic drop" button to Gmail, allowing users to add a GIF of a Minion dropping a microphone to their emails.*
The problem with Mic Drop is that a lot of people inadvertently added the animated little guy to serious emails (see one particularly nasty example, below)
Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/01/gmail-mic-drop-prank-backfires/)
More about April Fools (http://mashable.com/category/april-fools/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mic Drop (http://mashable.com/category/mic-drop/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Gmail (http://mashable.com/category/gmail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/tSHiaDU52qM