Y U NO SEND GOOGLE DOC?

I don’t think I am a techno-snob, but I am starting to feel this way 👆🏼.

I love new and cool apps as much as the next person, but Google Drive and its signature app, Docs isn’t exactly a spring chicken anymore. In fact, in February 2017, Google Docs will be ten years old, which is fairly middle-age by Internet standards.

Like… “I got my PhD and have been crushing the startup-scene for years now” type of experienced middle-age.

Working at a company which uses Google Apps for everything, has slanted my view on this significantly enough. I used to muddle through the mundanity of opening documents that should have been written AS EMAILS to begin with only to now make edits/changes in either the same doc or a new one to send back to someone that now has to juggle my version plus their version plus all the other versions of that same doc that everyeone else made changes to…

And imagine the legal ramifications of all those various doc versions just floating around on people’s machines and email accounts. Yeah, whole businesses are founded on nothing more than that. In fact, isn’t that what Microsoft Sharepoint’s whole business justification is?

“We’ll put all the documents here in SharePoint.” Spoiler alert: That will never happen.

Suggesting changes on a Google Doc is easier than making a calendar appointment. Its as easy as making a FaceTime call.

The problem is that people are stuck at opening WORD. WHYYYYYYYY?

The next time you need to write a doc, please, please, please consider going todocs.google.com instead of opening your Word app. Just try it. Collaborate in the doc instead.

P.S. You can say “security” or “privacy” all day long, but…Dude. you just EMAILED me a document through public, unsecured mail servers. It’s NOT “secure” or “private” anymore no matter what you think.

Just sayin.