Title: Dear Google,<p>i watched this video:<p>http://www.youtube.com/user/googlechrome?v=R4vkVHijdQk<p>You 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.<p>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.<p>Now this account is locked and will be deleted in 30 days because i clicked on a Google+ link and honestly entered her birthday. :(<p>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.<p>I can understand that you don't want kids - your future customers - in your system (well, maybe not).<p>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.<p>Either publicly say: "Parents, go away to other platforms with your little kids - our legal team does not want this kids hassle". And delete such a misleading video.<p>Or change your policy on this - it would probably give you a lot of positive publicity to openly support kids when their parents agree.<p>Producing excellent marketing videos that will only let your customers down that try exactly what you advertised and have their memories deleted within 30 days is quite a let down.<p>You know, i would be glad if i could store my memories within a Gmail account. Because honestly i can't think of many companies that i would trust to be around in 20 years from now and keep my data safe.
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