BY Lux Alptraum
October 8, 2008
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By now, you’ve probably heard about Google’s new “Mail Goggles” feature — a somewhat oddly named addition to Gmail which, we suppose, is intended to act as the reverse of beer goggles. During the hours when you are most likely to be toasted and drunkmailing, Gmail will force you to answer some simple math problems before allowing you to email.

On the one hand, this is kinda great: no more worrying about sending that email to that person after one too many beers. On the other hand… sometimes those drunk emails allow us to say things that we need to say, things that we otherwise might not say — and, most importantly, things we can later excuse on account of how drunk we were. Confessions of long held crushes, resentments against lovers (or former lovers), and secret sexy fantasies — do we really want to give up our easy out on revealing these feelings? Sure, knowing you’ll never drunkbootyemail the ex is certainly a relief: but at what price?