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This is one of the most annoying features of Google. This one really makes me literally stand up and start cursing in my cubicle and all my neighbours know I’ve got a mail on gmail! I click on the gtalk notification and it opens up my mail. You know what? I can’t operate on it! Is this going to replace my outlook experience? Does Google really really really believe that? There really have got to be morons sitting behind the scenes who’re secretly using all the benefits of outlook or whatever internal tool Google has for their own mail.

As you read this mail, forget the rational critique below (becuase it’s taking a lot of effort on my part to write it), and imagine me uttering the worst curses imaginable.

When I open my mail, I want to make a decision. What retard reads their mail and then does nothing about it? I know Google doesn’t want people deleting their mails, then at least allow me to tag it, flag it, label it, categorise it, forward it, reply to it, whatever! I use mail because it serves a purpose for me. Nothing except “remove from inbox” is an option. So basically from having a perfectly categorised mail, all google wants me to do is remove a tag that’ll make the message uncategorised and lost in the depths of my inbox forever, which graciously Google will allow to expand infinitely. Imagine having a thousand spam messages removed from inbox and kept as uncategorised. You can’t even mark a message as spam on that dialog (uhmm…. sorry I meant “page”).

Holy Hell, who ever thinks gmail’s interface is good has got to be kidding me! Clicking on “inbox” opens up a new window! What the hell do they expect me to do with my old window? I have a window with a perfectly legible message. Now I want to do something about that message so I want to go to my inbox. But apparently my previous page’s purpose isn’t over yet. Ctrl+click doesn’t open it in a new tab either. No…. Google – the guys who want to define the desktop of the web, clutter my perfectly functioning desktop with a new window! Do they hire some sort of kindergarten kids to design this stuff?

Once at the inbox, you have 10 unread messages. You want to go over each message in order – tough luck. It’s the new “Web Desktop” – what good would it be unless you got the feel of clicking through links a lot? With a UX design that only idiots who designed the annoyances above could boast of, you have to go back to inbox every single time and find the “next” message you probably were looking for.

Imagine a whole lot of curses at this point. What the hell is going on? People if you have any sanity, please send mails to my perfectly functioning yahoo account which allows me to do stuff with the mail you send me. Sending it to gmail is a one-way ticket to me clicking on that “x” beside the inbox link and your mail plummetting into the spam-riddled depths of the uncategorised messages I have.