April Fools' Day was fun, once upon a time, before the Internet. It's a day full of pranks that in dianetwork pop like press releases. They are usually fun and at other times can even become malicious. Microsoft this year announced that he is not going to publish a hoax, let's see who else will follow her.
April Fool's Day seems to get worse every year. And this is not something we just think. The way the Internet works - and the way tech news companies approach the world on April Fool's Day is different, and it has nothing to do with what used to happen.
The BBC's famous prank in 1957 announcing that they grow spaghetti out of trees certainly failed to fool some, but it was funny. With a little knowledge or research, you could discover that this is not possible.
The spaghetti published by the BBC on April 57 was not released again and again by thousands of other stations, as opposed to the internet, where you can find the same news in hundreds of pages a few seconds after its original publication.
The Internet is different. Technology companies are often "announcing" products that could really be, but are not, due to April Fools.
Of course, to make things more confusing, their crazy announcements that day may be real. Gmail announced the new service on April 2004 and many have not believed that Google can offer 1 GB storage to new emails.
Hotmail only provided 2 MB (0,2% of Gmail's storage) at that time. So if Google publishes a self-riding bicycle, there may be victims.
But we are not just talking about misleading stories. Some pranks block people and cause problems. Google's prank "small dropIn 2016 reported that the company added a button to Gmail that archived the current email, turned it off and sent a Minion GIF. Many people accidentally clicked this button, but Gmail itself ran the feature randomly even if you did not! So suddenly Gmail turned off incoming messages and no one could see the answers. Was that a joke?
After that, at least one company received the message. Microsoft announced last week via Chris Capossela that it is banning this year's employees from April Fools' Pride.
I believe that many may have devoted time and resources to these plates, but I think we have more to lose than to win by trying to be fun this day.
Let's mention that Microsoft has a leading role in the internet and its decision may affect others. But let's remember that the company in the past faithfully followed the tradition of April Fool's Day. In 2014, for example, he announced the return of Clippy to Microsoft's web applications Office.
The large problem with this day, it is that nothing changes from the previous ones. The last space we live a constant April Fool's Day with fake news flooding our news feeds. The internet, meanwhile, gives every bitter person the chance to play it cool on their friends by rebroadcasting an unbelievable news story, which just happens to be fake.
