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mk  ·  4584 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Will Google+ ever take the dominant share of the social media market?
Today when I was looking at an email, gmail had a little thumbnail of a picture of me and our new daughter in the upper right. I didn't post it, it isn't my profile picture, and I wasn't looking in an email that had that picture.

It said 'Recent photos'.

After some digging, I found that it was a picture that I sent to my brother some time ago. Why was it popping up in another email? Why do they think I'd like a random assortment of images that I have previously sent to pop up on the right of my screen? WTF is that?