Portraits in GMail appeared

15th May 2006

Company Google added new possibility into its mail service. Now the owners of mailboxes in GMail can add portraits for themselves and any contacts from the directory. For other addresses into GMail it is possible to select picture at its discretion or to use that established by partner in the correspondence. Other users of Gmail can see portrait evidently during the guidance of cursor to the name of sender. When desired the access to the portrait can be limited by those correspondents, by which it is permitted to see online status of the owner of box. The corresponding tuning is located in the menu of tuning contacts. Hardly it is possible to name the addition of avatars as serious innovation, but it shows that GMail increasingly more orients toward the mass audience, where similar functions are most demanded. It is available for a long time in the Internet- pagers and many cell phones.