Gmail was down, so what?
February 26th, 2009 by Jayne WesnerI was reading through the blog posts on TechCrunch when I came across this article: Trouble in the Clouds: Gmail Turns Into Gfail.It really is amazing the things people will say when their normall routine has been compromised. People were very upset at not being able to check their emails and they made sure via other means of communication that others knew of their hardships.
My question is: Why? Gmail is not the only email out there. Sure, I have 2 gmail accounts and I definitely use those more than the others but I do have other email servers should I need them. So, if there is a client that I desperately need to be in contact with, I can, just through a different email then what they were expecting. That’s probably not the most logical way to back up emails but it works when one of my email servers goes down.
Plus, lets face it, you know Google will eventually figure out what happened, fix the error and go to whatever length they need to in order to guarantee that the same problem does not happen again. So, this could have been a lesson in relaxation. After reading through the many comments on TechCrunch, it became obvious that people really do need to learn to relax.
Tags: Gmail, TechCrunch