news.ycombinator.com• Sep 18, 2011• 1 min read
Dear Google Marketing (Re: Your kids policy)Dear Google,i watched this video:http://www.youtube.com/user/googlechrome?v=R4vkVHijdQkYou know, the "dear.sophie.lee" ad, where a proud father sends email to his little daughters Gmail account for her to read later. What a great idea.Like Mr. Lee, we created a Gmail account for our 5 months old daughter a few days ago. We already sent her a few emails.Now this account is locked and will be deleted in 30 days because i clicked on a Google+ link and honestly entered her birthday. :(There is no way for me to unlock it, as your highly automated process only accepts legal docs that show that she indeed is 13+. Well, i hope she will be someday.I can understand that you don't want kids - your future customers - in your system (well, maybe not).But why do you advertise with such a video? Only to let your customers down who try this. As a long time private and business Google customer i ask you to rethink your actions on this.Either publicly say: "Parents, go away to other platforms with your
