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Invite the world to GMail

The other day I noticed that I have this “Invite a friend” on my GMail. I didn’t use that thing for more than a year, so I took the chance of this re-discovery to get rid of it. Within several minutes I sent 98 invitations to an imaginary friend whose mail bounced at some noreply@somewhere… address. And it worked – I got rid of that little blue box that serves no purpose on my GMail page!

Imagine my surprise when today I find that box at the same place, with 50 new invitations to give away.

No, really – I don’t have any friends who don’t have a GMail account. I don’t want to use this “feature”, ever. And it does not contribute a thing to my GMail experience – get rid of it Google! Put some AdSense there or something.