Where is the line drawn between a funny, viral-worthy prank and a risky, reputation-damaging mistake? We can all agree that Google made a mistake, but here’s the bigger question: Long story short, Google apologized, so life has gone on! There have been reports of people having lost their jobs and relationships due to this feature. People who wanted to send an email mistakenly used Mic Drop and dropped themselves from conversations, causing confusion and anger among recipients. One of the primary issues was that this “Send + Mic Drop” button was too close to the “Send” and “Send & Archive” buttons. Hundreds of Gmail users were irate by the new feature for many reasons. Essentially, it abruptly took you out of the conversation. (1) it delivered a GIF of the Minion character into the conversation and (2) it removed the sender from seeing any new emails in that thread. Google added a feature to Gmail called the “Send + Mic Drop” that did 2 things. On April 1st, boy, did they mess up big time.įor those who have heard about it, how do you feel about what happened? This is an important question to ask yourself if you are a business owner, manager, or someone with the authority to suggest a gag campaign such as the Google Mic Drop.įirst, let’s do a quick recap on that fateful April 1st, 2016. Yes, even seemingly perfect corporate giants like Google can mess up.
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