Gmail unsubscribe from people

Sometimes I wonder if being an adult just means responding to emails until you die. It feels like that sometimes, especially after being gone for a week.

This is especially obnoxious when you’re dealing with people who won’t stop emailing you even if you ignore them. Thankfully I’ve been largely spared from this, but every once and a while I deal with someone who doesn’t know when to throw in the towel.

For marketing emails, you can effortlessly unsubscribe (usually) and stop receiving communications. What if we extrapolated this mental model and applied it to people?

I can see this being helpful for certain coworkers, institutions with poor boundaries, and likely some other use cases I can’t think of. This is one of those features that poorly applied feels unhinged, but it could be an actual good feature if properly designed.

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