This is way old news, as in 2009, but I recently encountered one of Gmail's awesome 'why didn't anyone think about that before' features when I tried to mark a newsletter I was subscribed to as spam instead of going through the process of unsubscribing.

You know the feeling, when you're on an mailing list (either voluntarily or otherwise), and you wanna get out, but you don't care to spend the time to get out of it? Yes I know you do. Marking it as spam or telling Gmail to auto archive it and mark it as read is far easier, so when I opted to do the first, I got this:

It says:

In addition to marking the mssage as spam, Gmail can attempt to automatically unsubscribe you from ** by sending an unsubscribe request on your behalf.

Wow.

On one hand there's a Congressman who wants the government to stop employees from using Twitter, Facebook, and (in effect) the Internet altogether, stating amazing facts such as:

“The government stands to lose an estimated P103,158,000 every month for electricity expenses alone if all the estimated 900,000 government employees use government computers for at least two hours of unauthorized online social networking activities,”.

On the other hand, the 'Laguna Police Provincial Office' (I got that from their email address: lagunapoliceprovincialoffice@yahoo.com), launched a Facebook page entitled 'Laguna Most Wanted Criminals', which (you guessed it), shows pictures of Laguna's most wanted criminals.

Let's face it, Facebook has easily become the only social networking tool worth promoting your site on. Oh I know Twitter faithful have something to say about that, but I don't twit, and since I don't twit, I'm probably not gonna read it if they do ;).

At any rate, I've been using the Addthis module for quite a while now, and I felt I needed a change. Here's a little graphic of why I think it isn't worth it anymore.

Clearly, I needed a change.

And YouTube. YouTube first.