Smoking, lottery tickets, and drugs cause negative effects in people's lives.
Using gmail has caused me no negative effects. It may not be ideal, but it works and has a reasonable set of tradeoffs.
I think it's more like renting vs buying or building from source vs compiled binaries than it is a crippling substance addiction which will ruin your health and relationships.
Using gmail has caused me no negative effects. It may not be ideal, but it works and has a reasonable set of tradeoffs.
I think it's more like renting vs buying or building from source vs compiled binaries than it is a crippling substance addiction which will ruin your health and relationships.