Is it a waste of human/earth resource that Gmail stores emails sent or received twenty years ago?
July 8th, 2010 | by gmail |
BingJi W asked:
I don’t see what is the value to store emails you sent or received ten or twenty years ago. So, I think Gmail is wasting human/earth resource to provide such a feature which will store all emails of a person’s lifetime. Even after a person is dead, his/her email is still stored at Gmail.
I don’t see what is the value to store emails you sent or received ten or twenty years ago. So, I think Gmail is wasting human/earth resource to provide such a feature which will store all emails of a person’s lifetime. Even after a person is dead, his/her email is still stored at Gmail.
What’s your opinion?
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2 Responses to “Is it a waste of human/earth resource that Gmail stores emails sent or received twenty years ago?”
By m_sterling on Jul 10, 2010 | Reply
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Was it a waste to record history?
Some people don’t care about certain events in History. Does that make it a waste to research and write about what happened? It’s worth what the individual believes it worth. Just because you don’t see the point doesn’t mean someone else doesn’t. I get this a lot as a driver of a muscle car. “I don’t see the reason behind driving a car that fast”. I get it all the time. I do it because I like to and I find enjoyment in it. That’s all.
Some people might have met a significant other online and courted back and forth, eventually to get married and have a family of their own. It’d be nice to go back and read those emails sometime, I’d think. That’s just one example of what kind of use you can get out of that stuff.
Personally, my opinion is that it is a question on ethics and there is no right or wrong answer when you get right down to it. It is what we call “subjective”, and as long as some people find worth in it, it is not a waste.
By silverbullet on Jul 11, 2010 | Reply
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Given that storage technology is rapidly decreasing the space and resources required to store gigabits of data, the impact is insignificant and irrelevant.
I happen to like the fact that my archived data is always at hand quickly and conveniently in a disc or a teeny thumb drive, taking up orders of magnitude less space than the bad old days of paper.