Gmail Hints ThatHotmail, AOL and YahooAre Outdated

The latest public relations push
by Gmail is called ‘Email
Intervention’. If you visit your
Gmail login page, it will show up
a new feature asking users to
‘Save their friends from outdated
email’.
Google is looking to tap into peer
pressure from it’s happy users,
to get their friends using other
email services that it is time to
move over to Gmail.
Check out the video below,
where the presenter suggests
that Gmail users should get their
friends who use ‘embarrassingly
out of data address’ to move
over to Gmail. The video also
adds that these email services
were around when people still
used Floppy Disks, Portable Disc
Player, VHS Cassettes. This is a
reference to Hotmail, Yahoo and
AOL which were around since
the late 90’s.
Gmail’s Email Intervention Video
Why is Gmail pushing so hard to
get new users?
Gmail is a great way for Google
to get new members using its
various other services. It also
might indirectly give a push to
Google+.
It might be poking fun at
Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo as old
and outdated, but honestly as a
regular Gmail user, I cannot
imagine moving back to the
older email services and still
wonder why some friends still
do not use Gmail.
What are your views on Gmail?
Do you have friends who still
have not discovered Gmail? Do
drop in your comments.