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Stage an email intervention for friends and family still on AOL or Hotmail

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Is your mom emotionally attached to the AOL account she created in 1995? Do you have a friend who's convinced that Hotmail is the only mail? Don't worry: Google is here to help.

Google's new "Email Intervention" campaign aims to help Gmail users guide stragglers to the very current email service with a decidedly retro instructional video. Aided by a blackboard, slides, and some smiley-face balloons, "intervention specialist" Dr. Richard Muscat provides a tongue-in-cheek tutorial on how to successfully save your loved ones from email obsolescence.

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